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Winter Olympics, Sapporo, SkiingC85%u2014August 17, 1972Issued to commemorate the Eleventh Winter Olympic Games in Sapporo, Japan. This was the last Olympics where a skier won the gold medal using allwooden skis.Summer Olympics, Moscow, High JumpC97%u2014November 1, 1979Issued a few months in advance of the 1980 Summer Olympic Games in Moscow, which the United States boycotted to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.Olympics, Single Issues1972, 1979Olympics, Set1983Twelve Commemorative Air Mail stamps were issued in advance of the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles. The 28%u00a2 stamps were for the postcard rate to any country in the world except Canada and Mexico (which cost 13%u00a2). The 35%u00a2 stamps were for International Air Mail to Colombia, Venezuela, Central America, the Caribbean Islands, the Bahamas, Bermuda, and St. Pierre and Miquelon. The 40%u00a2 stamps were for mail sent to all other countries. All were se-tenant issues, with four different stamps printed on the same sheet of 50 stamps.Women%u2019s GymnasticsC101%u2014June 17, 1983HurdlesC102%u2014June 17, 1983Women%u2019s BasketballC103%u2014June 17, 1983SoccerC104%u2014June 17, 1983