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 ...

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.

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. Recommended Videos It was Carter who called for that boycott — a Cold War power play intended to express America’s disdain for the Soviet ...