Turning the Tide

Against the backdrop of the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan, the 1980 Moscow Olympics was always going to be political.

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser wanted Australia's Olympic athletes to boycott the Games, in line with the USA, but many of the athletes had a different view and competed anyway.

Athletes were the victims - and most of them female.

According to Ford, who was Australia's first and founding member of the International Olympic Committee's Athletes Commission, tha...