Sailing at the 1980 Summer Olympics Olympic courses. According to the IOC statutes the contests in all sport disciplines must be held either in, or as close as possible to the city which the IOC has chosen. Since Moscow was not a suitable place the Olympic Yachting Centre in Pirita Tallinn was constructed for the 1980 Olympic Sailing event. The 1980 Summer Olympics boycott of the Moscow Olympics was a part of a package of actions initiated by the United States to protest the Soviet–Afghan War. The Tallinn boycott influenced most sailing events. For example, in the Soling, the Canadian team of Bill Abbott, Jr., Bill
President of the International Olympic Committee the Olympics due to its racial policies. After the attacks in Munich, Brundage drew a comparison between the massacre of the Israeli athletes and the barring of the Rhodesian team, for which he later apologized. Brundage is also remembered for proposing the elimination of "all" team sports from the Summer Olympic Games, fearing that the Games would become too expensive for all but the wealthiest nations to host; he also proposed the elimination of the Winter Olympic Games entirely due to its pro-European ideology. Brundage retired as IOC president after the 1972 Summer Games, having held the post for twenty