1956 Melbourne Olympics Boycott

The Sixteenth Melbourne Olympics

Held in Melbourne, Australia from November 22 to December 8, 1956

The two superpowers of the United States and the Soviet Union The international situation under the influence is turbulent. In the summer of 1956, the situation in Poland was unstable; at the end of October 1956, the Soviet army sent troops to Hungary; the Suez Canal War broke out in Asia, with the Soviet Union siding with Egypt, and the United States, France, and Britain supporting Israel.

Egypt, Israel, Iraq and Lebanon, which were in the midst of the war, successively gave up participating; Spain, under the rule of Franco's military regime, and the Netherlands, which protested against the Soviet Union's dispatch of troops to Hungary, also announced their abstention. The most dramatic thing is Switzerland, which has been hesitant to protest the sending of troops to Hungary. It was only 12 days before the opening of the Olympic Games that it decided to go to Melbourne to compete. However, the decision was made too late, and there were difficulties with air tickets, making it impossible to arrive before the registration deadline. In the end, I had to give up against my will.

The 21st 1976 Montreal Olympics

In June 1976, the South African regime invited the New Zealand rugby team to visit. Africa's Supreme Sports Council has warned that Africa will oppose New Zealand's participation in the upcoming Olympics if New Zealand is invited. But New Zealand turned a deaf ear. Later, New Zealand sent a delegation to Montreal to participate in the Olympic Games, which aroused strong dissatisfaction in Africa. Gabon, Gambia, Zaire, Madagascar, Malawi, Tanzania, and the Central African Republic refused to send teams to attend the Olympics; Algeria, Upper Volta, Ghana, Guyana, Egypt, Zambia, Iraq, Cameroon, Kenya, Congo, Although sports delegations from Libya, Mali, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Swaziland, Sudan, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda and Ethiopia went to Montreal, they withdrew from the competition shortly after the opening.

The 22nd 1980 Moscow Olympic Games

There were 5,217 athletes participating in this Olympic Games, including 1,124 women and 4,093 men.

There are 5,615 journalists*** participating in reporting on this competition, including 2,685 print reporters and 2,930 broadcast reporters. The total number is more than the participating athletes.

Among the 80 teams participating in the meeting, 16 teams did not display their national flags during the entrance ceremony and replaced them with the Olympic five-ring flag; 10 teams had only one flag bearer and no athletes appeared. During the Olympic flag handover ceremony, because Canada was among the boycotting countries, the mayor of Montreal, the previous host city, only sent a representative to hand over the Olympic flag to Moscow. All these diluted the warm atmosphere at the venue and cast a shadow over the hearts of people who care about the development of the Olympic movement.

The Soviet army invaded Afghanistan on Christmas Eve in 1979, trampling on the norms of international law and having a serious impact on the games. If a country holds the Olympic Games with peace and friendship as its main purposes, but on the other hand sends troops to invade other countries, it will inevitably be opposed by the world and condemned by public opinion. Many national Olympic committees have expressed their refusal to participate. The Chinese Olympic Committee also issued a statement not to participate in the Moscow Olympics. Of the 147 national and regional Olympic committees recognized by the International Olympic Committee, two-fifths have openly boycotted or refused to participate, and only 80 have participated. This number is still lower than the level of the Rome Olympics 20 years ago.

The 23rd Los Angeles Olympic Games (1984)

There are 6,797 athletes participating in this year's competition, including 1,567 women and 5,230 men, which is also the number in previous games

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There are 9,190 journalists*** participating in the coverage of the Olympic Games, including 4,327 print reporters and 4,863 broadcast reporters. The conference *** has recruited 28,742 volunteers.

World Situation

The Soviet Union announced a boycott of the Los Angeles Olympics. As a result, all socialist countries except China responded.

At that time, there were 159 members of the International Olympic Committee, and 140 countries and regions participated, far exceeding the scale of previous countries. There are 19 countries and regions that boycotted or did not participate for some reason: Afghanistan, Albania, Bulgaria, North Korea, Cuba, Ethiopia, Hungary, Iran, Laos, Mongolia, Poland, Democratic Germany, Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union, Vietnam, Democratic Yemen, and Libya , Angola, Upper Volta.