The Forgotten Tale of How America Converted Its 1980 Olympic Village Into a Prison

For two weeks in the winter of 1980, a small town in upstate New York had an Olympic Village filled with 1,800 of the world’s most elite athletes. Despite Cold War tensions, the mood in the village was jovial; the athletes shared meals, traded pins, and gathered in the Village’s “psychedelic room full of blinking electronic game machines” for endless rounds of pinball. Emotions ran high, as most Americans fondly remember the 1980 games for the “Miracle on Ice” victory over the Soviet hockey team, one of the iconic moments of any Winter Olympics.
Read more: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-time-that-the-us-turned-an-olympic-village-into-a-prison?source=Snapzu