The Politicized Olympics of the 1980s

Released Thursday, 20th October 2022

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The Politicized Olympics of the 1980s

Thursday, 20th October 2022

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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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