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Soviet Union announces it will boycott the Los Angeles Olympics

📅 8 May 1984

The USSR cited security concerns and alleged anti-Soviet hostility as reasons for non-participation. The boycott was retaliatory in the context of the 1980 Moscow boycott and again made athletes carry...