About the hockey tournament at the Olympic Games in Nagano 1998 referred to as the “Tournament of the Century”.
In Nagano, the best of the best met for the first time. Following the agreement of the International Olympic Committee with the IIHF and the NHL, hockey players from overseas competitions could travel to Japan and supplement their national team selections. Because of this tournament, the NHL was suspended.
The biggest favorites of the Olympic tournament were therefore the USA and Canada, their clear dominance and smooth progress to the finals was expected. The Czechs were among the outsiders, but in the end they “rewrote history” by defeating the USA, Canada and, in the final, Russia.
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