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In an attempt to save the Games, Lord Killanin, then president of the IOC, arranged to meet and discuss the boycott with Jimmy Carter and Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, before the new 24 May deadline.
President Carter's Speech to Olympic Representatives When the Soviet Union failed to comply with President Carter's deadline for their withdrawal from Afghanistan, he issued a boycott of...
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The Soviet invasion spurred President Jimmy Carter to issue an ultimatum on 20 January 1980, which stated that the U.S. would boycott the Moscow Olympics if Soviet troops did not withdraw from Afghanistan within one month.
2 de mar. de 2021 · Jimmy Carter addresses a group of about 150 American Olympic athletes and officials that the United States will not go to the 1980 summer games in Moscow because of the Soviet invasion of...
9 de fev. de 2014 · In a plan that seemed like a good one when it was hatched, U.S. State Department officials were dispatched to India in January 1980 to convince the boxing legend and Olympic gold medalist to help...
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This Day in History March 21: Discover the historic moment when President Jimmy Carter declared the U.S. boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Russi...
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31 de mai. de 2024 · U.S. Pres. Jimmy Carter took the lead in the call for a boycott of the 1980 Olympics, and approximately 60 other countries joined the United States in staying away from Moscow. A number of Western countries did not observe the boycott, notably Great Britain, France, Italy, and Sweden.
