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South Africa was the indirect cause of the 1976 Olympic boycott. A New Zealand rugby union tour of South Africa prompted African countries to demand that the New Zealand Olympic team be excluded from the games.
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 ...
1976: African countries boycott Olympics; Official site by senior members of the Montreal Games Organizing Committee "NFB gives viewers a look into the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal". Montreal Gazette. July 12, 2016; Video Clips. Montreal 1976 Olympic Games – Olympic Flame & Opening Ceremony– The Olympic Channel
In 1968, the IOC was prepared to readmit South Africa after assurances that its team would be multi-racial; but a threatened boycott by African nations and others forestalled this. [10] The South African Games of 1969 and 1973 were intended to allow Olympic-level competition for South Africans against foreign athletes.
In protest against the New Zealand national rugby union team's 1976 tour of South Africa, controversial due to the regime's apartheid policies, Afghanistan, Albania, Burma, El Salvador, Guyana, Iraq, Sri Lanka, Syria and Tanzania, led a boycott of twenty-two African nations after the IOC refused to ban New Zealand from participating. Some of ...
The three African participants boycotted the day before the start of the Games to protest the participation of New Zealand, whose rugby team planned a summer tour of South Africa in spite of the Soweto uprising.
They stayed in Afghanistan for another nine years, while further disrupting the Olympic movement and America’s own turn as an Olympic host four years later. The Soviets and 13 other countries, mostly from the Eastern Bloc, boycotted the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984 in retaliation for what the Americans had done to Moscow four years earlier.
During the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montréal in Canada, the Tunisian team initially competed but then joined a boycott by all but two African nations. The boycott was called due to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) allowing the New Zealand team to participate despite the recent tour of South Africa by the country's rugby union team.