📅 20 Yanüari 1980
President Carter publicly called for the Games to be moved or boycotted unless Soviet forces left Afghanistan. The decision linked sport to the intervention and placed athletes in the middle of a...
📅 8 Mei 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...
📅 28 Yüli 1984
The Games proceeded amid a Soviet-led boycott by the USSR and several aligned states. Athletes who were absent lost an opportunity to compete, while hosts and organizers framed the event as a...
