preparing for the Olympics. But Carter, in one of the most controversial moves of his four years in the White House, led the charge for an international boycott of the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow ...

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

Carter’s decision to boycott the Moscow Summer Games in response to ... who was set to go to his first Olympics but stewed at home instead. “The biggest disappointment of my life,” the ...

They would not return to compete in the Olympics until 1992. 1980 Moscow Games Boycott The largest boycott in Olympic history took place at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. Led by the United States ...

sits the U.S. boycott of the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. Recommended Videos It was Carter who called for that boycott — a Cold War power play intended to express America’s disdain for the Soviet ...

1980 Moscow olympics mascot Misha REUTERS - Sergei Kivrin Twas ever thus. Soviet military aggression was the ostensible reason for the boycott in 1980. Russian bellicosity now. But the outrage ...