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1996
The 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan spurred Jimmy Carter to issue an ultimatum on January 20, 1980 that the United States would boycott the Moscow Olympics if Soviet troops did not withdraw from Afghanistan within one month. Sixty-five countries did not participate in the Olympics despite being invited. While some of these may not have participated because of the boycott, some did not participate for economic reasons.
there will be many countries contributing in the Olympics this year. such as Britain, America and Brazil.
21 African countries boycotted the 1971 (i think that was the year) Olympics because of south africas racist views and new zealand letting the south African rugby tour proceed 81 nations participated in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
There are 88 countries participating in the 2014 Winter Olympics.
The Olympics are in London next year.
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For all of the countries to do all the sports in the Olympics there has to be a certain amount of them in the team. However it is possible for a country to participate in all of the sports. Some of the countries this year only have a couple of players so no. All of the countries in the Olympics do not do all sports.
Many people from many different countries.
80 or more.
Olympics is not a person , it is an event held every 2 years in different countries in Olympics there are games like for winter there is skiing, skating , snowboarding and summer is swimming, gymnastics also one year its summer and the year after the year after that its in winter