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 ...
No wonder they bonded together. I was actually a young secondary school student in 1976 when Obasanjo led other African countries to boycott the Olympic Games hosted by the Canadian City of Montreal.
The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics may still be nine months away, but there is already controversy brewing as Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called for a “diplomatic boycott” ...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — 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 ...
It comes after Jones appeared in front of a group of Djokovic fans during a live broadcast from Melbourne Park on Friday ...
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 ...
Somewhere between his greatest foreign-policy success (the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt) and his greatest failure (the Iran hostage crisis) sits the US boycott of the 1980 Olympics ...