Soon, other Soviet-bloc nations joined the boycott ... department’s preparations for the 1984 Olympics. Ueberroth, himself, was never bigger than in the summer of 1984. Time magazine named ...

Four years later, the Soviet Union and 14 allies including Vietnam, Cuba and Angola, boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles as retaliation for the 1980 boycott. Carter, who also served ...