{"id":26236,"date":"2014-11-24T08:27:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T08:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/former-soviet-olympic-hockey-coach-tikhonov-dies\/"},"modified":"2014-11-24T08:27:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T08:27:00","slug":"former-soviet-olympic-hockey-coach-tikhonov-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/former-soviet-olympic-hockey-coach-tikhonov-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Soviet Olympic hockey coach Tikhonov dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow, Russia (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Former Soviet Union Olympic hockey coach Viktor Tikhonov died Monday. He was 84 years old.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Russian Hockey Federation, Tikhonov died in a Moscow hospital after a long illness.<\/p>\n<p>Tikhonov led his teams to three Olympic gold medals, but may best be remembered as the coach of the Soviet team that lost to the &#8220;Miracle on Ice&#8221; United States squad at the 1980 Olympics and wound up with a silver medal in Lake Placid.<\/p>\n<p>Known as the &#8220;Red Machine,&#8221; the Soviets won Olympic gold under Tikhonov in 1984 and &#8217;88, then again in 1992 as the Unified Team following the breakup of the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n<p>Tikhonov&#8217;s teams also won eight World Championship titles from 1978 through 1990, and also beat NHL stars in the 1979 Challenge Cup and 1981 Canada Cup tournaments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow, Russia (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Former Soviet Union Olympic hockey coach Viktor Tikhonov died Monday. He was 84 years old. According to the Russian Hockey Federation, Tikhonov died in a Moscow hospital after a long illness. Tikhonov led his teams to three Olympic gold medals, but may best be remembered as the coach of the Soviet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[246],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-olympics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}