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Jimmy Carter led the charge for an international boycott of the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow .
The move was in retaliation for the Soviet Union’s intervention in Afghanistan .
A few hundred American athletes never had a chance to realize their Olympic dreams.
"He wanted to kill the Russian economy for going into Afghanistan ," wrestler Gene Mills says.
The IOC was set on staging its Summer Games in Moscow , despite the pleas of U.S. officials.
Many athletes were invited to the White House to meet with the president to discuss the issue.
The athletes, meanwhile, felt they had little recourse. They continued training. They hoped the government was simply grandstanding. “I was 19 , and what did I know?” Beardsley said.
More than 450 U.S. Olympic hopefuls who couldn’t compete in Moscow were presented with Congressional Gold Medals on Capitol steps.
The Moscow Games took place, as planned, in the summer of 1980 .
The Soviet Union won 195 medals, at least 69 more than any other country.
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