Memories of Moscow 1980, the 40th anniversary of 22nd Olympic Games in Moscow, where Glen Christiansen lived his Olympic Dream, a notion that comes with thrilling highs and crushing lows, underpinned ...

Music composed for the Moscow 1980 Olympics has been performed once again to mark the 40th anniversary of the opening of the Games in a special "Olympic Tribute" event at the Museum of Moscow. "The ...

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the first day of racing in the pool at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow but not all medal hopes, such as Canada’s Cheryl Gibson, made it: a boycott led by United ...

FILE - In this July 7, 1980 file photo, a woman walks past a huge portrait of Communist Party leader Leonid Brezhnev that dwarfs the symbol of the upcoming XXII Summer Olympics right behind, in Moscow ...

Here’s a country about to present itself on the world stage to soak up the admiration and goodwill it has long been wrongfully denied. Scheming outsiders are trying to sabotage this joyful sporting ...

The National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Belarus has honoured the athletes from the country who won medals at the Moscow 1980 Games. Fifteen athletes attended in person at the organisation's ...

EDITORS — With the Tokyo Olympics postponed for a year because of the coronavirus pandemic, The Associated Press is looking back at the history of Summer Games. Here are some of the highlights of the ...

BOULDER, Colo.—It was the best of times in the worst of times at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, N.Y. Mike Eruzione and the other baby-faced members of the United States hockey team stunned ...

Whenever the postal letters would arrive at their home with a return address stamp of 10 Downing Street, Allan Wells’ wife would slice one open, make certain it was the same old horrid stuff, and dump ...

Here’s a country about to present itself on the world stage to soak up the admiration and goodwill it has long been wrongfully denied. Scheming outsiders are trying to sabotage this joyful sporting ...

SOCHI, Russia (AP) In the summer of 1980, a group of journalists asked a Soviet official what the Soviet Union had contributed to building of Moscow's new West German-constructed Sheremetyevo Airport, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Here’s a country about to present itself on the world stage to soak up the admiration and goodwill it has long been wrongfully denied. Scheming outsiders are ...