Olympic Legends

Biography:
Jim Sedin was the youngest member of the silver medal winning U.S. Olympic hockey team in the Oslo 1952 Winter Olympics.  Jim scored the tying goal with just over two minutes left in the final game against the mighty Canadians -- without his effort, the U.S. team would have gotten fourth place and would have been left off the medal stand.  Jim was born and raised in the Twin Cities and stayed in town to play college hockey for the Minnesota Golden Gophers, and he later went on to get a PhD in electrical engineering from Caltech.

Conversation:
Total run time: 21:33

0:01 - Introduction and background on Jim
1:34 - Jim talks about his early life and lead up to the Olympics
7:13 - the 1952 Olympics
10:49 - Jim's post Olympic career
15:52 - Jim's opinion on the hockey of today
20:28 - Epilogue

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Additional Links:

• A short bio and picture of Jim from Joe Pelletier's Greatest Hockey Legends site. 
• A recap of the 1952 Olympic hockey tournament from Wikipedia.