Here’s hoping it doesn’t enter the conversation again.
“For an Olympic athlete, a boycott is an absolute tragedy,’’ track great Edwin Moses said. “We only get that one shot every four years.’’
Moses hasn’t run in an Olympics since 1988, though he’s got a unique insight into boycotts. When he was dominating the 400-meter hurdles for the better part of two decades he seemed to run into one every time he set his sights on the Olympics.
The boycott in 1988 in Seoul was so small he struggled to remember the nations involved. The one in Moscow eight years earlier was so big that it almost surely cost him a gold medal.
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Is MLB Losing Tremendous Numbers of Fans, as Donald Trump Claims?
On 4/3/21 at 9:44 AM EDT
Former President Donald Trump called for a boycott of Major League Baseball (MLB) on Friday in response to their decision to move the All-Star Game out of Georgia due to the state s controversial new election law. Baseball is already losing tremendous numbers of fans, and now they leave Atlanta with their All-Star Game because they are afraid of the Radical Left Democrats who do not want voter I.D., which is desperately needed, to have anything to do with our elections, Trump said in a statement issued by his Save America PAC.