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1980 – Moscow, USSR

Big Boycott. Outraged by the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan the previous year, U.S. President Jimmy Carter led the call for a boycott of the
Moscow Games.Some 60 nations joined the boycott. Among those that didn’t: Great Britain, France, Italy and Sweden.


1984 – Los Angeles, California
Outraged by being boycotted by the United States four years earlier, the Soviet Union accused the U.S. of using the Games “for political purposes” and for “stirring up anti-Soviet propaganda”, announced that it would boycott the Los Angeles Games. Fourteen nations followed Moscow’s lead, including most of the Eastern Bloc and Cuba.
Romania was the exception. China, having nev...

Contd....

1980 – Moscow, USSR

Big Boycott. Outraged by the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan the previous year, U.S. President Jimmy Carter led the call for a boycott of the
Moscow Games.Some 60 nations joined the boycott. Among those that didn’t: Great Britain, France, Italy and Sweden.


1984 – Los Angeles, California
Outraged by being boycotted by the United States four years earlier, the Soviet Union accused the U.S. of using the Games “for political purposes” and for “stirring up anti-Soviet propaganda”, announced that it would boycott the Los Angeles Games. Fourteen nations followed Moscow’s lead, including most of the Eastern Bloc and Cuba.
Romania was the exception. China, having never been boycotted, participated in the Summer Games for the first time since 1952.

1988 – Seoul, South Korea
Cuba was at the forefront of the ’88 boycott. Along with Ethiopia, Cuba acted in solidarity with North Korea,

1992 – Barcelona, Spain
Nobody boycotted. Nobody was banned. Where’s the sport in that?