Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. They had trained for years. They had dreamed of gold medals. They had ...
Essentially, 1978 marked the beginning of the end for the People’s National Party’s (PNP) popularity. Even so, the PNP had its eyes set on winning yet a third term in 1980, and in convincing style.
In the past 40 years, the would-be Olympians of the summer of 1980 have heard a lot of words, but not a full-throated mea culpa for a boycott that accomplished very little. By Matthew Futterman The ...
Ten days before Christmas 1979, 33-year-old Arthur McDuffie, a Marine and a manager at a life insurance company, had already wrapped presents for his two young daughters, but he never got the chance ...