Famed Sports Illustrated photog Heinz Kluetmeier died at the age of 82 after complications with Parkinson’s disease and a stroke.
A bill to award Congressional Gold Medals to the 1980 “Miracle on Ice” Olympic hockey team has been reintroduced in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate.
Including his unforgettable "Miracle on Ice" photo, Heinz Kluetmeier took numerous indelible images for Sports Illustrated, all while living in Milwaukee.
Heinz Kluetmeier, an award-winning photojournalist whose portfolio includes iconic Olympic images of the “Miracle On Ice” in 1980 and Michael Phelps’ “Miracle Finish” in 2008, has died.
Kluetmeier is best remembered for shooting the famous “Miracle on Ice” photo of Team USA men’s hockey team celebrating its victory over the Soviet Union at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid. The USSR was heavily favored over the American team ...
That photo landed on the cover of SI on March 3, 1980, the definitive image of the definitive sporting moment for Americans of the 20th century — the United States hockey team’s celebration after its improbable victory over the Soviet Union at the Lake Placid Olympics.
WASHINGTON -- A bill to award Congressional Gold Medals to the 1980 "Miracle on Ice" Olympic hockey team was reintroduced in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate on Wednesday.
This year, the Olympic Regional Development Authority is celebrating the 45th anniversary of the historic 1980 Olympic Games, remembered by many for the Miracle on Ice.
The photographer offered some of the most defining pictures of sports’ biggest moments in the last half century, including Lynn Swann’s acrobatic catch in Super Bowl X and the US hockey team’s triumph in the Miracle on Ice.
To recognize the 45th anniversary of U.S team defeating the Soviet Union in the "Miracle on Ice" at Lake Placid, New York on Feb. 20, 1980, U.S. Senators Kevin Cramer (R-ND) and Chuck Schumer (D ...
WASHINGTON — A bill to award Congressional Gold Medals to the 1980 “Miracle on Ice” Olympic hockey team was reintroduced in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate on Wednesday.
A bill to award Congressional Gold Medals to the 1980 ''Miracle on Ice'' Olympic hockey team was reintroduced in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate on Wednesday.