These Olympic moments deserve their very own podium.

As a result of even when they didn’t all embody a medal, they nonetheless secured their place within the historical past books. 

Typically, these moments featured celebratory highs. Who may overlook when the U.S. males’s ice hockey staff beat the favored Soviet Union in what was dubbed a “miracle on ice” on the 1980 Video games in Lake Placid, New York? Or, when Michael Phelps received his first-ever Olympic medal (extra like medals given his six golds and two bronze) on the 2004 Video games in Athens—with the American swimmer later happening to develop into the most-decorated Olympian of all time with 28 medals.

Nonetheless, some notable moments featured devastating lows. Take, for example, when British sprinter Derek Redmond tore his hamstring mid-race on the 1992 Barcelona Olympics (although, decided to complete, he fought by way of the ache and tears to finish the course along with his father by his aspect), or when U.S. determine skater Nancy Okayerrigan was attacked only a month earlier than the 1994 Olympics in Lillehammer (the place she nonetheless took residence the silver).