are seen during a meeting of officials from 18 Western European Olympic committees to discuss a possible boycott of the ...

Forty-four years later, it’s even more apparent President Jimmy Carter made the wrong decision to call for a U.S. boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

One week after Soviet troops landed in Kabul, Carter, in his private diary, wrote that an Olympic boycott and a grain embargo were “two more difficult” punitive steps. “I’m inclined to ...

The decision to boycott the 1980 Moscow Olympics deprived hundreds of athletes of their once-in-a-lifetime chance at glory, a ...

Mills, at one time an Olympic-caliber wrestler, was stung by Carter’s decision to boycott the 1980 Olympics. “At the time, I would’ve given anything in the world to be locked in a wrestling ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — It was a decision that robbed hundreds of athletes of their once-in-a-lifetime chance at Olympic glory, and for more than four decades, it weighed heavily on the man ...

The boycott garnered more than two-thirds support from the 2,400 members of the unwieldy U.S. Olympic Committee house of delegates, the governing body that made the official move to keep the ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — It was a decision that robbed hundreds of athletes of their once-in-a-lifetime chance at Olympic glory, and for more than four decades, it weighed heavily on the man ...

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