Not to be outdone, the Soviet Union issued a statement in May 1980 promising to boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and decrying “chauvinistic sentiments and an anti-Soviet hysteria ...

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 who made it — Jimmy Carter. Carter ...

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.

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 ...

FILE - President Jimmy Carter pauses during a speech to applaud the U.S. Olympic Committee's stand on the Moscow Olympics ... Committee's House of Delegates to boycott the 1980 Summer Games ...