Thirty-five years after his hopes for a gold medal were dashed by Jimmy Carter's boycott of the Moscow Olympics, Craig Beardsley is at peace. That doesn't mean the former world record-holding swimmer has backed off from his belief that staying home in 1980 was a huge mistake. "We were just pawns," Beardsley said. "They could do whatever they wanted to do with us. Unfortunately, they didn't look at the bigger picture." Now, the man who cost Beardsley his shot at the Olympics is fighting cancer. What an understatement. Fesenko got a gold medal. Beardsley got nothing. That, too, ended his career.