Boycott

Stolen Dreams of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games

Tom Caraccioli, Jerry Caraccioli

• Publisher: New Chapter Press
• eBook ISBN:
  9780942257557
• Year: 2008

With a thorough exploration of the political climate of the time and the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan, this book describes the repercussions of Jimmy Carter's American boycott of the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow. Despite missing the games they had trained relentlessly to compete in, many U.S. athletes went on to achieve remarkable successes in sports and overcame the bitter disappointment of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity dashed by geopolitics.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• Authors’ Note
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Chapter I: Olympian*
• Chapter II: Afghanistan
• Chapter III: Carter Doctrine
• Chapter IV: “Ours Will Not Go”
• Chapter V: The Vote
• Chapter VI: The Lawsuit
• Chapter VII: The Games Go On
• Chapter VIII: Results
• Chapter IX: Message to President Carter
• Epilogue
• Appendix
• Sources
• Index