Congress finds the game a turning point and cites a Sports Illustrated ranking
To award 3 Congressional Gold Medals to the members of the 1980 U.S. Olympic Men's Ice Hockey Team, in recognition of their extraordinary achievement at the 1980 Winter Olympics where, being comprised of amateur collegiate players, they defeated the dominant Soviet hockey team in the historic “Miracle on Ice”, revitalizing American morale at the height of the Cold War, inspiring generations and transforming the sport of hockey in the United States, section 2, Sec. 2.
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Congress finds the game a turning point and cites a Sports Illustrated ranking
The document says “should”Who acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 2 in the PDF
What the document says
“The Miracle on Ice was a turning point for ice hockey in the United States. The game was named the greatest sports moment of the 20th century by Sports Illustrated.”
The eighth of the section's ten findings. Congress calls the game a turning point for the sport, and records that Sports Illustrated named it the greatest sports moment of the 20th century. The ranking is the magazine's, recited here; the finding gives no date for it.
What the document actually says
“The Miracle on Ice was a turning point for ice hockey in the United States. The game was named the greatest sports moment of the 20th century by Sports Illustrated.”
That sentence, in plain words
Congress says the game changed hockey here. A sports magazine called it the top sports moment of the 1900s.
What this is about
The magazine is Sports Illustrated. The ranking is the magazine's own view. Congress just records that the magazine said it.
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