Mark Wells' 'Miracle on Ice' Gold Medal Sells for $310,700

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An Olympic gold medal formerly belonging to Mark Wells, a member of the 1980 USA Hockey team that shocked the world with its upset victory over the Soviet Union with the Miracle on Ice, was sold at auction Friday night for a price of $310,700 through Heritage Auctions.

Wells originally had to sell the medal several years ago because of medical expenses needed to treat a rare genetic disease that affected his spinal cord. Along with the medal came a note that Wells wrote when he originally sold it.

The note reads as follows:

 

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