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  2. List of Olympic Games scandals, controversies and incidents

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    Some countries have boycotted the Games on various occasions, either as a protest against the International Olympic Committee or the contemporary politics of other participants. Some countries have also been banned from the Olympics, such as the defeated countries after both World Wars or South Africa under apartheid.

  3. List of Olympic Games boycotts - Wikipedia

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    Albania is also the only country that boycotted the 1976, 1980 and 1984 Olympics. In 2021, several nations announced a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics to protest against Chinese mistreatment of the Uyghur population , thus prohibiting many government officials from attending the games in an official capacity, while still ...

  4. 1984 Summer Olympics boycott - Wikipedia

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    [38] [39] [40] Whichever their reason, the timeline of when the Soviets began a push to boycott the Olympics suggests that their decision may have been precipitated by changes to the Soviet leadership. Leonid Brezhnev, who was general secretary during the Moscow Olympics, was the leader most affected and publicly embarrassed by the US-led boycott.

  5. 1984 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia

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    The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and commonly known as Los Angeles 1984) were an international multi-sport event held from July 28 to August 12, 1984, in Los Angeles, California, United States. It marked the second time that Los Angeles had hosted the Games, the first being in 1932.

  6. Concerns and controversies at the 2020 Summer Olympics

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    In addition, one of the companies that provided timber for construction of the new national stadium and Ariake Arena [51] has been suspected of illegal logging for 20 years. Critics also have reflected on the 2020 Summer Olympics as an attempt at "greenwashing" what was ultimately an environmentally un-friendly event. Citing the attitudes of ...

  7. 2020 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia

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    [g] The 2020 Games were the second of three consecutive Olympics to be held in East Asia, following the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea and preceding the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China. Due to the one-year postponement, Tokyo 2020 was the only Olympic Games to have been held in an odd-numbered year.

  8. Olympic Games - Wikipedia

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    Since then, the Paralympics have been held in every Olympic year and, starting with the 1988 Summer Games in Seoul, the host city for the Olympics has also played host to the Paralympics. [ 48 ] [ c ] The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) signed an agreement in 2001 which guaranteed that host ...

  9. Boxing at the Summer Olympics - Wikipedia

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    Boxing has been contested at every Summer Olympic Games since its introduction to the program at the 1904 Summer Olympics, except for the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, because Swedish law banned the sport at the time. [1] The 2008 Summer Olympics were the final games with boxing as a male only