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Opinion: President Jimmy Carter made wrong decision to call for a boycott of 1980 Moscow Olympics
But there were other athletes for whom Moscow was their only chance. They remain in a weird sort of athletic purgatory, Olympians without an Olympics. "I feel like a doctor who knows the specialty ...
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George H. W. Bush called US boycott of 1980 Moscow Olympics huge mistake – Putin
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 ...
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Carter reflected on 1980 Olympic boycott: ‘A bad decision’
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 ...
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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter dies at 100
The boycott of the Moscow Olympics led to a retaliatory Soviet-led boycott of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics that included more than a dozen countries. "For the Soviet Union, the Moscow Olympics ...
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Looking Back
A sled dog jumps with excitement as his team prepares to start the Upper Green River leg of the 2005 International Pedigree ...
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Carter reflected on 1980 Olympic boycott: ‘A bad decision’
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 ...