Olympic Boycotts: A 2,300-Year History A total of 67 nations did not participate at the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics—at least 45 of which withdrew as a result of the U.S.-led boycott.

The boycott crippled the fields in many events at the Games, and also incensed American athletes, many of whom lost their only chance to participate at an Olympics.

WASHINGTON – The Biden administration is under escalating pressure to push for a U.S. boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics, scheduled for Beijing next February, over China's rampant human rights ...

The U.S. says a boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics over China’s human rights record is possible, prompting a swift rebuke from Beijing.

As the Washington Post recently reported, human rights activists and others are advocating a boycott of the upcoming 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, because of the Chinese government's ...

The boycott barely adds to the pressure, but it also comes with the sense that countries can’t just do the Olympics as usual. “It’s striking, of course, with 1980 in comparison,” Gallagher ...

The Biden administration is expected to announce a diplomatic boycott of February’s Winter Olympics in Beijing sometime this week, according to a new report.

A boycott by Western political leaders of the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2022 Games is possible, said Olympic expert Brownell, but she added that given Winter Olympics rarely attracted ...

Olympic boycotts are nothing new. Here are other times countries protested the Games. December 8, 2021. An Olympic sculpture at Shougang Park in Beijing, host of the upcoming Winter Games.

The Olympic boycott movement that failed. Human rights activists urged the U.S. to boycott the 1936 ‘Nazi Olympics,’ but after a fierce debate, the Games went on.

The International Olympic Committee, or the IOC, has a long entanglement with political dictatorships and their crimes. The approach of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing is one more example of ...

The greatest Olympic boycott so far — the one against the Moscow games of 1980 — was a failure. The Soviet boycott of Los Angeles in 1984 was another failure. Why?