One medal goes to the United States Olympic and Paralympic Museum
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 3, Sec. 3.
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One medal goes to the United States Olympic and Paralympic Museum
The document says “shall”Who acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 3 in the PDF
What the document says
“one gold medal shall be given to the United States Olympic & Paralympic Museum in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where it shall be displayed and made available for research, as appropriate”
The third and last of the directions in subsection (c). One medal goes to the United States Olympic & Paralympic Museum in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on the same two conditions as the other two: displayed, and made available for research, as appropriate. With this, all three medals are accounted for and none is given to a member of the team.
What the document actually says
“one gold medal shall be given to the United States Olympic & Paralympic Museum in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where it shall be displayed and made available for research, as appropriate”
That sentence, in plain words
One gold medal goes to the Olympic and Paralympic Museum. That museum is in Colorado Springs. It must put the medal on show. It must also let people study it.
What this is about
That is the last of the three medals. Each one goes to a museum. No medal goes to a player or to a family.
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Miracle on Ice Congressional Gold Medal Act, Public Law 119-53, sec. 3, 139 Stat. 703 (2025). https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ53/html/PLAW-119publ53.htm
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“One medal goes to the United States Olympic and Paralympic Museum,” Miracle on Ice Congressional Gold Medal Act, section 3, Sec. 3. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/miracle-on-ice-congressional-gold-medal-act/proposal/sec03-medal-to-olympic-and-paralympic-museum/ (retrieved October 10, 2026).
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