Canada boycotted the 1980 Summer Olympic Games in Moscow in protest to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan in 1979.
Boycotted 1980 olympics
No, through the 2006 Winter Games in Turin, Canada has never won a medal in Nordic Combined competition at the Olympics.
A chef won the first ever Olympic games.
Barbados has never hosted the Olympic games.
Yes. As of 2010 Alexandre Bilodeau won the first ever Olympic gold medal for Canada on home soil. He competed in the Men's Moguls.
The fifiy yard dash has never been an event in the Olympic Games. The shortest running event in the Games is the 100 meter dash and the Olympic record, as of the 2008 Games, is 9.84 set by Donovan Bailey of Canada set in 1996.
the Ever swindells have only been to the 2004 and 2008 Olympic games they won gold at both.
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Russia has sent competitors to most of the Olympic games
Yes. but not a gold. Hopefully that will change in Vancouver 2010.