DENVER – By the time the news filtered to him, Edwin Moses had already left a promising engineering job to focus on a full-time career on the track.
He was lucky. He already had an Olympic gold medal hanging on his wall. Hundreds of other American athletes would never get their chance.
They were part of the 1980 U.S. Olympic team — the team that never made it to the Moscow Games after President Jimmy Carter spearheaded a now-infamous first-of-its-kind decision to boycott the Olympics.
The full board of the U.S. Olympic Committee rubber-stamped Carter's decision 40 years ago Sunday — April 12, 1980. “I'd walked away from my career to get ready for the 1980 Olympics, and all was moot,” Moses told The Associated Press by phone. “So, it was