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From USOC’s Mike Moran: A call to salute 1980 Olympians who stayed at home

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Wednesday, I posted an essay from 1980 U.S. Olympian Anita DeFrantz on the pain she still feels over the 1980 Olympic boycott. (To read it, click here).

Here is a more anecdotal voice on the 1980 boycott, that of longtime U.S. Olympic Committee spokesman Mike Moran, who would like to see the International Olympic Committee formally honor athletes from the more than 60 countries -- including the United States -- who did not go to the 1980 Moscow Summer Games because their political leaders supported U.S. President Jimmy Carter’s boycott.

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-- Philip Hersh

Read more: ‘A call to honor all the world’s 1980 Olympians who were forced to stay home

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