🏒🇺🇸On February 27, 1960 the underdog U.S. Olympic hockey team defeats the Soviet Union in the semifinals at the Winter Games in Squaw Valley, California. The next day, the U.S. would beat Czechoslovakia to win its first-ever Olympic gold medal in hockey. Canada, the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia and Sweden were the top 4 teams heading into the Games. All 4 were defeated by the American team, which won all 7 games it played. On the 50th anniversary of these Games, a documentary entitled “Forgot

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India’s gold winning streak in hockey came to an end in the 1960 Rome Olympics when it lost to Pakistan 1-0 in the final. India surrendered the title to her neighbour Pakistan losing by the narrowest of margins! Watch here: | The Bridge

At the 1960 Rome Olympics, Wilma Rudolph became the first woman to win three gold medals in track and field events at a single Olympics Games. This was an astonishing accomplishment given her childhood illness. Diagnosed with polio, Rudolph wore leg braces for several years. Due to segregated medical facilities, her family was forced to travel 90 miles several times a week to visit her doctors. Rudolph persevered and became one of America’s greatest track stars. #HiddenHerstory #APeoplesJourney

1960 Rome Summer Olympics, 800m final. Peter Snell stunned the running world in 1960 when he won the Olympic 800. He had been lucky to have made the New Zealand team in the first place, and then to have got through the two elimination rounds was beyond anyone’s hopes. From his Olympic gold medal in Rome, Snell went on to be the dominant 800/1,500 runner of the first half of the 1960s. | Nostalgic Kiwi