Tag: Did Australia boycott the 1980 Olympics?
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What happened at the 1980 Olympics?
In 1980, the United States led a boycott of the Summer Olympic Games in Moscow to protest the late 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. In total, 65 nations refused to participate in the games, whereas 80 countries sent athletes to compete. [mks_pullquote align=”left” width=”300″ size=”20″…