1980 Olympic Trials - Athlete's Opinions on Boycott

[metsdudenj]

The fucking IOC should have immediately revoked the games from Russia but we too stupid and too weak to do so. Dont blame Carter, blame the losers in the IOC who basically sucked each others dicks and nothing else

[Jim856796]

In this video (from 0:19 to 0:35) is Bart Conner. Conner didn't support the US Boycott of the Moscow Olympics. After he underwent surgery for a torn biceps, Conner qualified for the 1984 Summer Olympics, where he won two gold medals. He later married Nadia Comaneci, who did participate in the Moscow Olympics, in 1996 and had a son named Dylan Conner in 2006.

[irinmar]

The two boycotts - 1980 by the US and 1984 by the Soviet bloc - were the stupidest things you could imagine. The athletes got in the midst of dirty political games. I remember being very sad when our athletes didn't go to LA in 1984 (I am Russian). The stupid "Friendship" games that the Soviets organized could not compare to the Olympics. Imagine training hard for 4 years and then you hear that your politicians decided not to send anyone. Such a disgrace.

[reading70]

@irinmar I totally agree, politics should stay away from the sport.

[67nairb]

Carter's boycott of the Moscow Olympics did nothing to get the Russians out of Aghainstan. Reagan's arming of the Afghan rebels did.

[britgymfan]

I dont understand why they are having a trial when they are not going to Moscow

[HeyButtahfly]

@britgymfan It was more of a formality; being an Olympian in name was what the USOC could offer them by that point. At least that's how some saw it: Kurt Thomas, who almost definitely would have been on that Olympic team, saw the Trials as pointless and refused to participate.

[joeymasong]

1980 Moscow Olympics to personally represent the POC, despite the absence of a Philippine Delegation due to the boycott spearheaded by the United States in protest over the occupation of the Afghanistan by the Soviet Union. :-(

[joeymasong]

Pres. Marcos wouldn't go to the Moscow Olympics, because the Soviet Union had already invaded and Carter had announced the boycott before the start of those games. 0_0

[TR3Y4LI4E]

1:20 that bitch says im sorry about what russia did, what did they do?

invade afghanistan? USA invaded afghanistan and iraq in same decade

[adventuregirl76]

@TR3Y4LI4E Do you have any idea what you are talking about??? Russia didn't leave Afghanistan until 1989, and everyone agrees that Carter's actions were an incredible FAILURE. Stop watching MSNBC and pick up a history book.

[TR3Y4LI4E]

@adventuregirl76

my point is that why would usa boycott the olympics if they would in the future do the samething! isn't that hypocritical?

[adventuregirl76]

@TR3Y4LI4E Boycotting the Olympics in general is ridiculous - for any country. You're punishing athletes for something they had absolutely no control over. Political squabbles need to be handled in other ways.

[adventuregirl76]

@TR3Y4LI4E You're missing the point. The athletes should not be punished for a political situation which has NOTHING to do with sport. Period.

[TR3Y4LI4E]

@adventuregirl76

what the fuck? u are correcting urself not me u were the one defending the boycott

[HeirOfBabylon]

@TR3Y4LI4E We had a reason for our invasion of Afghanistan, the Soviet Union did not. Their invasion was unprovoked and the only reason they did it was to spread communism and make another satellite state. Plus the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, we invaded in 2001, that is a 22 year difference.

[MTVMANN]

@TR3Y4LI4E Ummmm did they not blow up the Twin Towers? I think they did. That's why we invaded in 2003.

It was just WRONG to do of Carter...she upset that the Russians invaded that made Carter boycott.

What makes it even more upsetting is that the Soviet Union came to the United States for the Winter Olympics...They Soviet Union had already invaded and Carter had announced the boycott before the start of those games.

[TR3Y4LI4E]

@MTVMANN

ha ha ha example of a weak minded person right here! afghanistan did not blow up the twin towers Bin Laden who was a Saudi Arabian terrorist living in afghainstan did it

[HeirOfBabylon]

@MTVMANN The U.S. invaded Afghanistan in 2001 not 2003, I think your thinking about Iraq which we invaded Iraq for a whole other reason, they had nothing to do with 9/11