Amongst other actions taken, Jimmy Carter stopped his country’s athletes from attending the 1980 Moscow Olympics ...

The Olympics were about to take place in Moscow. The world was in crisis. The Games were threatened. The USA reacted, ...

They were invited to the nation’s capital by President Jimmy Carter who welcomed the team to the White House for a national recognition ceremony. Mr. Carter enthusiastically greeted Eruzione with a ...

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 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.” ...

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 ...