Former President Jimmy Carter turned Bob Giordano’s Olympic dreams into nightmares.
The Cedar Grove, NJ resident holds no ill will towards Carter, who is currently in hospice -- but believes the former president's decision to boycott the Olympics was"dead wrong."Carter’s decision to boycott the Moscow Summer Games in response to the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 still irks the ex-elite Team USA weightlifter, who was set to go to his first Olympics but stewed at home instead.
The Cedar Grove, NJ resident insisted he has no “ill will” towards Carter, 99 — who is currently in hospice in Georgia — but would still tell him his decision was “dead wrong” if he had the chance.“It was a political show. It was the wrong thing to do,” said Giordano. “I think he still strongly believes he was right.
Giordano also endured “nasty letters’ and “death threats” for having the courage of his convictions, including one from a man who dubbed himself the “Montana vigilante” who used a racial slur and threatened to kill him.Giordano, took his own advice to fellow Olympians and “let it go,” going on to graduate Seton Hall law school in 1987. He had a successful private law practice and then served as an administrative law judge, retiring in 2017.
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