While Tass announced that the boycott violated the Olympic Charter, the Helsinki accords, the United Nations Charter, and the Amateur Sport Bill of 8 November 1978, Sovetsky Sport explained that the boycott was contrary to the United States constitution. The reasons set out by Carter went unmentioned. Although the Soviet Union and its allies minimized the impact of the boycott and the protests made at the games, where many nations eschewed national flags and anthems and availed themselves of Olympic symbolism, Moscow proclaimed the 1980 games the most glorious of all.