“He stole my life,” Gene Mills said. “That was my life. He took it away from me.” ...

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 ...

Carter, who died Sunday in Plains, Georgia, at the age of 100, called to boycott the 1980 Olympics because of the Soviet Union ... Other countries joined the United States in boycotting the Summer ...

Carter, who died Sunday in Plains, Georgia, at the age of 100, called to boycott the 1980 Olympics because of ... the United States in boycotting the Summer Games in Moscow, including Canada ...

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 Afghanistan.

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 ...