The following are excerpts from Mike Lucasâ?? columns during the 1980 Winter Olympics. Lucas was the radio analyst for Badgers hockey games at the time. On the eve of Team USAâ??s game against West Germany in the 1980 Winter Olympics, University of Wisconsin hockey coach Bob Johnson was revisiting his own Olympic experience during the 1976 games at Innsbruck, Austria. Johnson had coached the Americans to a fourth-place finish, but he was frustrated over not taking his son, Mark, to Innsbruck.
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