Winter Olympics Top Ten Moments

I have been watching the Winter Olympics since I was eight (Squaw Valley 1960).

My top 10 moments:

1. 1980 Lake Placid: Miracle on Ice. What can I say that hasn't already been said. In another weird coincidence, as I was watching Al Michaels' call of the end of the game, who should I hear live on NBC's opening telecast of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics in the background? Yup: Al Michaels.
2. 1984 Saravejo: Torvill and Dean win gold dancing to Ravel's Balero. The way the performance built with the music so beautifully. Still gives me goose bumps.
3. 1976 Innsbruck: Franz Klammer wins men's downhill in front of home fans. On the edge of my seat the entire run.  Frank Gifford and Bob Beatty's call is a classic. Count the number of times they say he is "on the edge."
4. 1968 Grenoble: Peggy Fleming wins gold in ladies' figure skating. A vision in lime green! (note commentary in video from Peggy's coach, Carlo Fassi).
5. 1994 Lillehammer: Dan Jansen, denied gold medals by falls at the 1988 and 1992 Winter Games, wins his one and only gold medal in the 1,000 meters in his last race as the Olympics. I cried.
6. 1980 Lake Placid: Eric Heiden wins all five men's speed skating races, setting four Olympic records and one world record in the process. Just an overpowering performance; best in U.S. history in the Winter Games.
7. 1960 Squaw Valley: U.S. Men's Hockey Team, in an upset not nearly as famous as the 1980 team, takes gold, upsets the powerful Czechs, Soviets, and Canadians.  Brothers Bobby and Billy Cleary (go Crimson!) lead the team. If it weren't for the fact that only an NCAA trophy, not a gold medal, was at stake, the victory by the Harvard men's hockey team over Minnesota, in St. Paul of all places, in 1989 has to stand as big an upset as in 1960 or 1980, but I digress.  
8. 1988 Calgary: the Battle of the Brians. Brian Boitano edges Brian Orser in one of the greatest two-man battles in Olympic figure skating history. Both deserved to win.
9. 1994 Lillehammer: Italy upsets host and heavy favorite Norway by less the length of a ski in the 4 x 10 km cross-country skiing relay.
10. 1994 Lillehammer: Bonnie Blair wins third consecutive gold in 500 meters speedskating in the oval known as the Viking Ship. It was impossible not to like her. Loved her squeeky Wisconsin twang.