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Message: [QUOTE="Floridaduck, post: 3472830, member: 9811"] Reminds me of the Olympic Games boycotts in 1980 and 1984 over global politics. Yucchhh... Olympic athletes after years of training and at the peak of their powers... get to stay home and twiddle their thumbs. "Eighty nations were represented at the Moscow Games – the smallest number since 1956. Led by the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States']United States[/URL], 66 countries [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Summer_Olympics_boycott']boycotted[/URL] the games entirely because of the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Afghan_War']Soviet–Afghan War[/URL]." "The [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_Summer_Olympics_boycott']1984 Games were boycotted[/URL] by a total of fourteen [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Bloc']Eastern Bloc[/URL] countries, including the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union']Soviet Union[/URL] and [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Germany']East Germany[/URL], in response to the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Summer_Olympics_boycott']American-led boycott of the previous 1980 Summer Olympics[/URL] in Moscow in protest of the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Afghanistan']Soviet invasion of Afghanistan[/URL]" [/QUOTE]