golden goal
Britishnoun
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Megan Keller scored the golden goal 4 minutes and 7 seconds into the extra period, lifting the Americans to their third gold medal in the event after accomplishing the feat in 1998 and 2018.
From Los Angeles Times
In case that wasn’t enough, he even provided the secondary assist on Jack Hughes’s golden goal.
It’s a shifty sequence that will outlive Keller’s career and will probably get mentioned by some current unknown phenom, 12 years from now, at some other Winter Games, of the day they saw Megan Keller stun Canada and win the Olympics 2-1 for Team USA with a brilliant golden goal.
By the time Decca and tall, blond Boud approach “the great golden goal of every childhood—being a grownup,” they long for a different kind of life.
In Vancouver in 2010, Sidney Crosby netted the “Golden Goal” in overtime to lift the host nation to the top of the podium.
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