The Moscow Games took place, as planned, in the summer of 1980. The Soviet Union won 195 medals, 69 more than any other country. “The Olympics seem to be shaping up into a farce,” Carter wrote ...

FLAG and sign bearers march around Moscow’s Lenin Stadium during closing ceremonies of the XXII Summer Olympic Games in Moscow which was boycotted by then US President Jimmy Carter. Forty-four ...

The decision to boycott the 1980 Moscow Olympics deprived hundreds of athletes of their once-in-a-lifetime chance at glory, a choice that weighed on former President Jimmy Carter for decades.

sits the U.S. boycott of the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. It was Carter who called for that boycott — a Cold War power play intended to express America’s disdain for the Soviet invasion of ...

Other countries joined the United States in boycotting the Summer Games in Moscow ... March 21, 1980. But it is the USOC, not the White House, that sends teams to the Olympics.

His big breakthrough came just two years later. At the 1978 Gateshead Games, Wells equalled Peter Radford’s 20-year-old ...

The crash of an American Airlines jet that collided with an Army helicopter was the latest to strike the sports world in the ...

The British Olympic Track & Field legend, who has been immersed in the Olympic movement at different levels since the 1970′s, is now trying to earn the Presidency of the International Olympic ...