Hey Remember all the US Stars from the 1980 Summer Olympics!

[AllentownJake]

You don't because the US boycotted the games for the USSR's occupation of Afghanistan.

What a difference 30 years make.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Summer_Olympics_boycott

[dionysus]

1. yeah, and at the same time we had osama on the CIA payroll. the gool ol days.

[AllentownJake]

2. Nah

Carter was using inane protest measures. Raygun was the one who hired Bin Laden.

[hileeopnyn8d]

5. It may not be a pleasant truth

but Carter DID authorize funding the mujahideen in mid-1979.

[dionysus]

6. whoops, i was a few years too early.

[hileeopnyn8d]

8. Actually, you weren't. nt

[mtnester]

3. One of my son's swimming coach when he was in high school had made the team

and he was (still is) forever bitter, as he was a bit long in the tooth and could not compete the next go round. The atheletes were not happy

[AllentownJake]

4. It must have sucked to have been an Athlete

Working that hard to be caught up in some international political battle.

[LeftinOH]

7. The boycott was a regrettable decision by us (Carter); not fair to the Athletes,

and it didn't change anything in Afghanistan.