Had the United States gone to Moscow, he would have been ... among them – refused to join the boycott. The politics Carter hoped to keep out of the Olympics are now endemic to the Games.

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 ...

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 ...

sits the US 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 Afghanistan.