[basalt]

same with hockey...that was a great upset, but it wasn’t even the gold medal game...to be comparable, if they had beat the Soviets 15-0 in the gold medal game....

[Alberta's Child]

For what it’s worth, there was no “gold medal game” in 1980. The tournament was played under a round-robin format, so every team played each other in the medal round.

The U.S. clinched the gold medal by beating Finland in their final game, but if Finland had won the game then the Soviets would have won the gold medal despite losing to the U.S: