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The 1980 Summer Olympics boycott was one part of a number of actions initiated by the United States to protest against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The Soviet Union, which hosted the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, and its satellite states later boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
May 31, 2024 · U.S. Pres. Jimmy Carter took the lead in the call for a boycott of the 1980 Olympics, and approximately 60 other countries joined the United States in staying away from Moscow. A number of Western countries did not observe the boycott, notably Great Britain, France, Italy, and Sweden.
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Nov 16, 2009 · On March 21, 1980, President Jimmy Carter announces that the U.S. will boycott the Olympic Games scheduled to take place in Moscow that summer. The announcement came after the Soviet...
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Mar 2, 2021 · Jimmy Carter addresses a group of about 150 American Olympic athletes and officials that the United States will not go to the 1980 summer games in Moscow because of the Soviet invasion of...
Upset that the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, President Jimmy Carter did not want the United States competing at the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow. After a failed attempt to move the Olympics, he urged a boycott, pressuring the U.S. Olympic Committee and recruiting allied nations to join the fight.
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.
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 ...
