For the mother of Kraken defenseman Jamie Oleksiak, once a top age group swimmer as a young teen in her native Scotland, ...

By Adam Nagourney For seven years, the promise of the 2028 Summer Olympics has shimmered on the horizon as a source of pride and celebration for Los Angeles. There were concerns: the homelessness ...

The decision to boycott the 1980 Moscow Olympics deprived hundreds of athletes ... Carter met with the athletes at the White House in the summer of 1980, offering a symbolic gesture in the form ...

FLAG and sign bearers march around Moscow’s Lenin Stadium during closing ceremonies of the XXII Summer Olympic ... sits the US boycott of the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. It was Carter who called ...

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 ...

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 ...