Navy blue sweat pants with white strip down sides won by the donor, Norman Ruskin, as a promotional giveaway from NBC, the National Broadcasting Company. The 1980 Summer Olympics were boycotted by the United States to protest the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan.
The 1980 Summer Olympic Games, also known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad were held in Moscow, Russia with 80 countries, 4,064 men and 1,115 women athletes participating. The United States boycotted these Games along with 66 other countries due to Russia’s involvement in the Soviet-Afghan war which began the previous year. The Soviet Union won the medal count with 195 with East Germany coming in second with 136 medals, the third-place finisher had only 41, making these the most skewed results since the 1904 Games.
