A swimmer on the 1980 U.S. Olympic Team and an Olympic broadcaster in 2020, Rowdy Gaines said the postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games was "apples and oranges" compared to the 1980 U.S. boycott.


Five months before one of the biggest moments of their lives, the members of the 1980 U.S. Olympic Team were thrown into chaos when President Jimmy Carter announced that Team USA would boycott the Moscow 1980 Olympic Games. Here are their stories.