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  2. 1980 Summer Olympics boycott - Wikipedia

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    The 1980 Summer Olympics boycott was the largest boycott in Olympic history and one part of a number of actions initiated by the United States to protest against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. [1] The Soviet Union, which hosted the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, and its satellite states later boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los ...

  3. 1980 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia

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    The 1980 Summer Olympics were disrupted by another, even larger, boycott led by the United States in protest of the 1979 Soviet–Afghan War. The Soviet invasion spurred President Jimmy Carter to issue an ultimatum on 20 January 1980, which stated that the U.S. would boycott the Moscow Olympics if Soviet troops did not withdraw from Afghanistan ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. Ghost Olympians: The lives forever changed by the 1980 boycott

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    The 1980 Olympic boycott crushed American athletes. Some never recovered. Others took aim at 1984. But not a single one of their paths forward was linear.

  6. 1980 Olympic boycott: Jimmy Carter and The Ghost Olympians

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    Forty years ago, hundreds of American athletes had the Olympic Games ripped away from them by politics. This is the story of the infamous decision and the effect it had on their lives.

  7. List of Olympic Games scandals, controversies and incidents

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    1984 Summer Olympics boycott: The Soviet Union and fourteen of its allies boycotted the 1984 Games held in Los Angeles, United States, citing a lack of security for their athletes as the official reason. The decision was regarded as a response to the United States-led boycott issued against the Moscow Olympics four years earlier. [66]

  8. Stop 'cancelling' others. It's time to rise above mistrust ...

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    The former Ohio State University hurdler and four-time U.S. champion qualified for the 1980 Moscow Olympics but was prevented from completing due to a U.S. boycott.

  9. Liberty Bell Classic - Wikipedia

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    The Liberty Bell Classic was a track and field athletics event organized by the Athletics Congress as part of the 1980 Summer Olympics boycott and held at Franklin Field at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia on July 16 and 17, 1980. [1] It was named after Philadelphia's Liberty Bell.