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 ...

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 ...

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 U.S. boycott of the 1980 Olympics in ...

On Feb. 9, days before the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, Cyrus Vance, then the secretary of state, reiterated the president’s dire warning to the IOC, ruffling feathers with his ...

Ágnes Keleti, the oldest living Olympic medal winner and Holocaust survivor, died Thursday morning. The 103-year-old Hungarian died in Budapest, according to Olympics.com. Keleti died after ...

Think of this as your winter packing checklist. Lydia Mansel is a writer with more than eight years of experience editing and writing for both brands and online publications—with a particular ...