Jimmy Carter's call for an Olympic boycott weighed heavily on him for more than four decades. It was a Cold War power play ...

It was a decision that robbed hundreds of athletes of their once-in-a-lifetime chance at Olympic glory COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- It was a decision that robbed hundreds of athletes of their once ...

“He stole my life,” Gene Mills said. “That was my life. He took it away from me.” ...

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 ...

For decades, members of the 1980 U.S. Olympic team — recognized as Olympians at home but not by the International Olympic Committee abroad — told stories about opportunities missed and dreams ...

Somewhere between his greatest foreign-policy success (the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt) and his greatest failure (the Iran hostage crisis) sits the US boycott of the 1980 Olympics ...