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When US did not attend Olympics?

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The United States did not attend the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. They boycotted because of the USSR's invasion of Afghanistan in 1979.

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No. The USA boycotted the 1980 Winter Olympics which were held in the Soviet Union as a protest of the Soviet Union's 1979 invasion of Afghanistan.

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In 1980, President Jimmy Carter boycotted the summer Olympics in protest of the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union.

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