When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced a boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. For the hundreds of American athletes who missed out on their ...
On January 20, 1980, President Jimmy Carter gave the Soviet Union a month to pull its troops out of Afghanistan. The Soviets ignored him, and the president decided a boycott of the 1980 Moscow ...
The latest issue of Swimming World Biweekly is now available for download in the Swimming World Vault In this issue of SW Biweekly, read about the athlete-devastating repercussions of the United ...