Interesting facts about Jimmy Carter’s presidency It’s a well-known fact about the U.S. presidency that it’s never an easy ...

In 1980, much like this year, Russia (or the Soviet Union to be exact) was hosting a major international sports event – the Summer Olympics. Overshadowed by the Soviet military intervention in ...

In nine days in February 1980 at Lake Placid, N.Y., Heiden accomplished what no Olympian had ever done -- he won five individual gold medals in a single Olympics, be it Summer or Winter.

At the 1980 Lake Placid Games, Davenport and fellow bobsledder ... and the only person from any nation to win a gold medal in a Winter Olympic sport and a Summer Olympic sport. Also became a Rhodes ...

After 46 years (and a couple of months) of working full-time as a sportswriter, I’m retiring.

Bryn ran in the 200m and 400m races, as 1920 was a Summer Olympics. In 1924, the Winter Games began in ... A U.S. ice dance team would not land back on the podium for 30 years. 1980: Lake Placid ...

France has hosted the Summer Olympics in Paris three times ... de Janeiro (2016), China in Beijing (2008), Russia in Moscow (1980), Belgium in Antwerp (1920), Canada in Montreal (1976).

Kraken defenseman and avid history buff Jamie Oleksiak has taken quite well to new pairing partner Brandon Montour and is off to one of the better starts of his career ...

Emblem of the 1988 Summer Olympics (Games of the XXIV Olympiad) The emblem was designed based on the triple taegeuk, a ...

1980 Lake Placid: 1976 Olympic gold-medalist Dettlef Guenther of East Germany ... But Hackl does become the first Olympian – summer or winter – to win five medals in an individual event when he wins ...

In 1980, she becomes the first driver to win ... two gold medals and one silver in track and field events at the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. She later wins 41 events in a golf career that ...

Mexican students had been demanding democracy all that summer. The government warned ... more than 60 countries to boycott the 1980 Moscow Olympics, citing the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan ...