The Politicized Olympics of the 1980s

The Untold History of Sports in America

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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1. The Politicized Olympics of the 1980s (00:00:00)

2. Break (00:14:21)