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Amongst other actions taken, Jimmy Carter stopped his country’s athletes from attending the 1980 Moscow Olympics ...

“He stole my life,” Gene Mills said. “That was my life. He took it away from me.” ...

Former President Jimmy Carter died Sunday afternoon at the age of 100. The Carter Center confirmed that Carter died peacefully and surrounded by his family at his home in Plains, Georgia. At 100, ...

I saw up close how, after his election defeat, this complex man improbably rebounded to be crowned "America's greatest ex-president." ...

While history has softened the harsh view of Jimmy Carter’s presidency ... finishing second at the 1984 Olympic trials. Had the boycott accomplished what Carter hoped, maybe athletes could ...

It was a decision that robbed hundreds of athletes of their once-in-a-lifetime chance at Olympic glory, and for more than four decades, it weighed heavily on the man who made it — Jimmy Carter.

FILE - President Jimmy Carter pauses during a speech to applaud the U.S. Olympic Committee's stand on the Moscow Olympics, Feb. 1, 1980, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Wilson, File) FILE ...

Former President Jimmy Carter, who is longest-lived American ... UNR's boxing coach could have gone to the Olympics if it wasn't for Carter Pat Jefferson, a University of Nevada boxing coach ...