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.

FLAG and sign bearers march around Moscow’s Lenin Stadium during closing ceremonies of the XXII Summer Olympic Games in Moscow ... failure (the Iran hostage crisis) sits the US boycott of the 1980 ...

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

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — 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 ...