Aspiring U.S. Olympians rang in 1980 with high hopes for the upcoming ... on March 24 with the first-ever postponement of an Olympics, as the coronavirus pandemic pushed the Tokyo 2020 Games ...

When Moscow hosted the 1980 Summer Olympics, games were being played not only in Soviet arenas but at the headquarters of the KGB. The Kremlin was determined to host an untarnished event after the ...

On this day in 1980, President Jimmy Carter informed some 160 U.S. athletes and coaches that the United States would boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow in response to the December 1979 ...

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 ...

The Cedar Grove, NJ resident holds no ill will towards Carter, who is currently in hospice -- but believes the former president's decision to boycott the Olympics ... the 1980 US hockey team ...

Carter, who died Sunday in Plains, Georgia, at the age of 100, called to boycott the 1980 Olympics because of the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan, and the pressure he exerted on the U.S ...