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 ...

Read also Putin urges to adopt UN General Assembly resolution on depoliticizing sport The summer Olympics in 1980, hosted by then-Soviet Union, were marred by a boycott on behalf of a number of ...

Zeke was part of the 1980 U.S. men's basketball team that was supposed to play in the Moscow Olympics ... the way and caused the Americans to boycott the Summer Games. "You know how competitive ...

PARIS — Forty-four years later, Nick Yonezuka finally made it to the Olympics ... decided to boycott the Moscow Games. He visited the White House with other members of the 1980 Olympic team ...