“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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...