Memories of Moscow 1980, the 40th anniversary of 22nd Olympic Games in Moscow, where Glen Christiansen lived his Olympic Dream, a notion that comes with thrilling highs and crushing lows, underpinned ...

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the first day of racing in the pool at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow but not all medal hopes, such as Canada’s Cheryl Gibson, made it: a boycott led by United ...

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A Presidential fanfare greeted the arrival of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and International Olympic Committee (IOC) counterpart Lord Killanin. Many regarded it as a triumph that the Games went ahead ...

SOCHI, Russia (AP) In the summer of 1980, a group of journalists asked a Soviet official what the Soviet Union had contributed to building of Moscow's new West German-constructed Sheremetyevo Airport, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Here’s a country about to present itself on the world stage to soak up the admiration and goodwill it has long been wrongfully denied. Scheming outsiders are ...

CANBERRA, Australia — A wait of 45 years ended when a group of Olympians who defied pressure to boycott the 1980 Moscow Games were recognized in the Australian Parliament on Wednesday for their ...

Aleksandr Aksinin, a member of the Soviet Union 4x100 metres relay team that won the Olympic gold medal at Moscow 1980, has died at the age of 65 ©Getty Images Nikolay Sidorov, a team-mate of Aksinin ...

EDITORS — With the Tokyo Olympics postponed for a year because of the coronavirus pandemic, The Associated Press is looking back at the history of Summer Games. Here are some of the highlights of the ...

EDITORS — With the Tokyo Olympics postponed for a year because of the coronavirus pandemic, The Associated Press is looking back at the history of Summer Games. Here are some of the highlights of the ...