List of Olympic Games boycotts

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The Olympic Games is a major international multi-sport event. During its history there have been boycotts on 7 occasions, all of the Summer Olympics. The first boycott occurred at the 1936 Summer Olympics and the most recent was at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Rhodesia is the only country which has been prevented from entering, when its invitation to the 1972 Summer Olympics was withdrawn by the International Olympic Committee, following protests by other African countries.

List

Olympiad	Year	Host Country	Host City	Boycotting countries (With map)
XI	1936	Nazi Germany	Berlin	Spain Note: withdrew because of the Civil war  Soviet Union Note: the USSR did not participate at the Summer Olympics until 1952
XVI	1956	Australia	Melbourne	Egypt  Iraq  Lebanon  Netherlands  Cambodia  Spain   Switzerland  People's Republic of China
XVIII	1964	Japan	Tokyo	North Korea  Indonesia  China
XXI	1976	Canada	Montreal	Algeria  Benin  Burma  Cameroon  Central African Republic  Chad  Congo  Egypt  Ethiopia  Gabon  Gambia  Ghana  Guyana  Iraq  Kenya  Libya  Lesotho  Madagascar  Malawi  Mali  Morocco  Niger  Nigeria  Republic of China  Somalia  Sri Lanka  Sudan  Swaziland  Tanzania  Togo  Tunisia  Uganda  Upper Volta  Zambia
XXII	1980	Soviet Union	Moscow	Albania  Antigua and Barbuda  Argentina  Bahamas  Bahrain  Bangladesh  Barbados  Belize  Bermuda  Bolivia  Canada  Cayman Islands  Central African Republic  Chad  Chile  China  Egypt  El Salvador  Fiji  Gabon  Gambia  Ghana  Haiti  Honduras  Hong Kong  Indonesia  Iran  Israel  Ivory Coast  Japan  Kenya  South Korea  Liberia  Liechtenstein  Malawi  Malaysia  Mauritania  Monaco  Mauritius  Morocco  Netherlands Antilles  Niger  Norway  Pakistan  Panama  Papua New Guinea  Paraguay  Philippines  Qatar  Saudi Arabia  Singapore  Somalia  Sudan  Suriname  Swaziland  Chinese Taipei  Thailand  Togo  Tunisia  Turkey  United Arab Emirates  United States  Uruguay  United States Virgin Islands  West Germany  Zaire
XXIII	1984	United States	Los Angeles	Soviet Union  Bulgaria  East Germany  Mongolia  Vietnam  Laos  Czechoslovakia  Afghanistan  Hungary  Poland  Cuba  South Yemen  North Korea  Ethiopia  Angola  Albania  Iran  Libya
XXIV	1988	South Korea	Seoul	Ethiopia  Nicaragua  Madagascar  Cuba  Albania  North Korea  Seychelles

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