Photojournalist Heinz Kluetmeier, whose portfolio includes iconic images of the "Miracle On Ice" and Michael Phelps' "Miracle Finish," has died at the age of 82.

Famed Sports Illustrated photog Heinz Kluetmeier died at the age of 82 after complications with Parkinson’s disease and a stroke.

Kluetmeier is best remembered for shooting the famous “Miracle on Ice” photo of Team USA men’s ... a shot of speed skater Eric Heiden in a gold suit and swimmer Michael Phelps after winning his first medal at the 2004 games in Athens.

That photo landed on the cover of SI on March 3, 1980, the definitive image of the definitive sporting moment for Americans of the 20th century — the United States hockey team’s celebration after its improbable victory over the Soviet Union at the Lake Placid Olympics.

The photographer offered some of the most defining pictures of sports’ biggest moments in the last half century, including Lynn Swann’s acrobatic catch in Super Bowl X and the US hockey team’s triumph in the Miracle on Ice.

Heinz Kluetmeier, an award-winning photojournalist whose portfolio includes iconic Olympic images of the “Miracle On Ice” in 1980 and Michael Phelps’ “Miracle Finish” in 2008 ...

an award-winning photojournalist whose portfolio includes iconic Olympic images of the “Miracle On Ice” in 1980 and Michael Phelps’ “Miracle Finish” in 2008, has died. He was 82.

Heinz Kluetmeier, an award-winning photojournalist whose portfolio includes iconic Olympic images of the “Miracle On Ice” in 1980 and Michael Phelps’ “Miracle Finish” in 2008 ...

Photographer Heinz Kluetmeier is perhaps best known for his more than 100 Sports Illustrated cover photos, including an iconic shot of the 1980 'Miracle on Ice' US Olympic hockey upset over the Soviet Union and the 2008 underwater photo that proved Michael Phelps’ seventh gold medal finish.

Including his unforgettable "Miracle on Ice" photo, Heinz Kluetmeier took numerous indelible images for Sports Illustrated, all while living in Milwaukee.

As we take a closer look at this miracle, we will learn that it was more than just changing one liquid into another and that it signaled what was to come in Jesus' ministry. I don’t know many people who wouldn’t have loved to be on-site for the first ...

Fred Phelps is America's most notorious anti-gay activist. On his "God Hates F—" website and in tracts sent from his church compound in Topeka, Kan., Phelps and his congregation — composed mainly of his extended family — pump out reams of anti-gay ...