The Moscow Games took place, as planned, in the summer of 1980. The Soviet Union won 195 medals, 69 more than any other country. “The Olympics seem to be shaping up into a farce,” Carter wrote ...

sits the U.S. boycott of the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. Advertisement Article continues below this ad It was Carter who called for that boycott — a Cold War power play intended to express America ...

I say, ‘No sir, I’m a wrestler, on the summer team ... to discuss a possible boycott of the MOscow Olympic games on March 22, 1980, in Brussels. Credit: AP/Pierre Thielemans Forty-four ...

Many athletes told stories of meeting Carter at a White House visit in the summer of 1980 that ... Los Angeles Olympics in 1984 in retaliation for what the Americans had done to Moscow four ...