If Chinese preeminence over America was solidified by the 2008 Games, Jimmy Carter should be credited for winning the Cold War. After all, the 1980 "Miracle on Ice" at Lake Placid occurred months before Ronald Reagan ever took office. Ask any historian, and they'll tell you: the collapse of the Soviet Union was the result of a lost hockey game. So, if you think Reagan won the Cold War, you're full of shit. And if you think the Soviet Union's collapse had more to do with the manifest failures of a centrally-planned economy, you need to watch more hockey and stop reading so many books.