SOCHI, Nov. 7. /TASS/. George H. W. Bush in a private conversation called it a huge mistake for the United States to boycott the 1980 Moscow Olympics, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the ...

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 ...

The skaters also won the 1976 Games in Innsbruck, Austria. Torches from the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow and the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi were also sold at the auction. They were bought for ...