How Long to Read A Long Shot to Glory

How Long Does it Take to Read A Long Shot to Glory?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 38 minutes to read A Long Shot to Glory by Michael Burgess

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Sometimes life is like a movie. There are moments and events in life - not often - that are as exciting and as dramatic as a movie. What happened in Lake Placid, New York in February 1980 at the Thirteenth Winter Olympics was such a time. For those who experienced it in person or watched the games on television, they remember where they were when the US hockey team beat the Soviet Union and then beat the team from Finland two days later to win the gold medal. The sports victory of an underdog group of college kids was thrilling enough but it was a win against the Soviet Union. This Cold War adversary was also the nation hosting the summer games later that year which the United States was threatening to boycott. The excitement and drama in Lake Placid gave the games a huge lift of enthusiasm and popularity when some had even come to believe that staging the Olympics was no longer affordable for many communities and that perhaps the 1980 Winter Games should be cancelled entirely. Indeed, as the games began, a US News and World Report magazine questioned whether the Lake Placid games were the "last Olympics." What happened on the hockey ice was improbable enough, but the Lake Placid Winter Games were a long shot, if not a miracle too. Winning the games had been an unlikely decades-long quest for this small town to overcome the barriers of exploding finances, environmental concerns and world politics. Few remember that the 1980 games were never supposed to take place in Lake Placid. They came to the small village because of unexpected events which unfolded and made the two weeks in the remote Adirondacks before a worldwide audience of nearly a billion viewers one of the most dramatic times in the modern era of sports, media and politics. It would not be too much of a stretch to say that the Lake Placid Games, which brought the "Miracle on Ice," saved the Winter Olympics in 1980 and greatly enhanced them for the future.

How long is A Long Shot to Glory?

A Long Shot to Glory by Michael Burgess is 155 pages long, and a total of 39,525 words.

This makes it 52% the length of the average book. It also has 48% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read A Long Shot to Glory Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 35 minutes to read A Long Shot to Glory aloud.

What Reading Level is A Long Shot to Glory?

A Long Shot to Glory is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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