COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — It was a decision that robbed hundreds of athletes of their once-in-a-lifetime chance at Olympic glory, and for more than four decades, it weighed heavily on the ...

A tough decision for Jimmy Carter, a lost chance of a lifetime for many athletes. Members of the 1980 U.S. team recall hopes blighted by the Moscow Olympics boycott.

Nick Yonezuka made the 1980 Olympic judo team that would have competed at the Moscow Games had the United States not boycotted. He’s now coaching his son Jack, the baby-faced judoka from West ...

He compared this to the 1980 Olympics in Moscow which was boycotted by some Western Olympic associations in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, boosting eastern bloc athletes.

Forty-four years later, it’s even more apparent President Jimmy Carter made the wrong decision to call for a U.S. boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

Which countries are participating in the 2024 Paris Olympics? Athletes who compete in any Olympic Games ... dozens of nations, including the U.S., went on to boycott the 1980 Olympics in ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — It was a decision that robbed hundreds of athletes of their once-in-a-lifetime chance at Olympic glory, and for more than four decades, it weighed heavily on the ...

As the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics get underway, you may be wondering how Jewish athletes fared over the years. A Jewish athlete has medaled at every Summer Olympics since the first modern games in ...

Of the 474 athletes who had qualified for the team in 1980, 227 would not get another chance to compete in the Olympic Games. Many athletes told stories of meeting Carter at a White House visit in ...

Carter reflected on 1980 Olympic boycott: ‘A bad decision’ It was a decision that robbed hundreds of athletes of their once-in-a-lifetime chance at Olympic glory ...

Of the 474 athletes who had qualified for the team in 1980, 227 would not get another chance to compete in the Olympic Games. Many athletes told stories of meeting Carter at a White House visit in ...