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Sports 1980: Moscow, Soviet Union CBC Sports · Posted: Jun 15, 2012 8:22 AM PDT | Last Updated: June 19, 2012 ...
In the hours before Michelle Ford won gold at the Moscow 1980 Olympics, the Australian swimmer read through some fan mail and ...
A wait of 45 years ended when a group of Olympians who defied pressure to boycott the 1980 Moscow Games were recognized in ...
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will today formally acknowledge 121 athletes who defied government opposition to compete ...
Australian Olympians who competed at the 1980 Moscow Games have finally been recognised for their efforts 45 years later.
Some 45 years on from the Moscow Olympics, Australia’s forgotten athletes finally got the homecoming they deserve.
More than 40 years after the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, Australia recognized its 1980 Olympians in a special ceremony.
Today’s Olympians will never be able to relate to the Moscow 1980s group. Now grey-haired seniors in their 60s and early 70s, many of them competed in the Montreal 1976 Olympics and/or the ...
As CBC Sports' Scott Russell writes, the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles went a long way toward mending the wounds which the Moscow 1980 experience exacted on a generation of Olympic hopefuls.
Matt Long ushers you to your seat in the Lenin Stadium, where Seb Coe and Steve Ovett ran the 1980 Moscow Olympic 1500m final 40 years ago today It’s the morning of Sunday July 27, 1980, and a ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian illustrator who designed Misha, the mascot of the 1980 Moscow Olympics that were boycotted by a slew of countries, died on Monday aged 84, a publisher of children's ...