The Soviets and Americans both hosted the Olympics in the 1980s. Matt Andrews explains that the fraught political situation of the time spilled into the Games, including boycott threats and fallout from a shot-down commercial airplane.
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10/20/22 • 28 min
The Untold History of Sports in America - The Politicized Olympics of the 1980s
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Oh, lessons from the world's top professors anytime, anyplace, world history examined and science explained. This is one day university Welcome and we're back on the untold history of sports in America. I'm your host, Mike Coscarelli. Today we're returning to the international stage as the Olympics are front and center in the Cold War. Will be examining how the US toiled with the decision of whether or not to boycott the Moscow Olympics as tensio
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