Other countries joined the United States in boycotting the Summer Games in Moscow ... March 21, 1980. But it is the USOC, not the White House, that sends teams to the Olympics.

FLAG and sign bearers march around Moscow’s Lenin Stadium during closing ceremonies of the XXII Summer Olympic Games in Moscow which was boycotted by then US President Jimmy Carter. Forty-four ...

The decision to boycott the 1980 Moscow Olympics deprived hundreds of athletes of their once-in-a-lifetime chance at glory, a choice that weighed on former President Jimmy Carter for decades.

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

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 ...

As the 40th anniversary of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games approaches, Sebastian Coe looks back and wonders: "What if?’’ As in, what if Britain had decided to join the U.S.-led boycott of the Games?

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 ...

Somewhere between his greatest foreign-policy success (the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt) and his greatest failure (the Iran hostage crisis) sits the U.S. boycott of the 1980 Olympics in ...

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 ...