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Japan, USA and West Germany boycotted the 1980 Moscow Olympic games.
Canada boycotted the 1980 Summer Olympic Games in Moscow in protest to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan in 1979.
The U.S. boycotted the Moscow Olympic games
In the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, there were 90 countries that participated. The United States boycotted the games that year.
Many nations boycotted the Olympic games.
As of the 2008 Games in Beijing, Australia has never boycotted an Olympic Games due to political reasons.
The 1980 Summer Olympics was boycotted by the U.S. and 64 other countries.
The USSR boycotted the 1984 Olympic games.
Canadian Equestrian athlete Ian Millar has participated in 10 Olympic games as of 2012. Millar and would have participated in 11 games since he was on the Canadian Olympic team for Moscow in 1980, but Canada boycotted the Olympics that year. Millar also plans to participate in Brazil in 2016.
No athlete from New Zealand won gold at the 1980 Summer Olympic Games in Moscow. The New Zealand Olympic Committee officially boycotted those Games and the athletes from New Zealand that did participate were competing under the flag of the New Zealand Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association. Five athletes participated and no medals were won.
The 1980 Olympic games in Moscow were boycotted by the US and several other countries because of the Soviet Union's invasion of Afganistan. The 1984 Olympic games in Los Angeles were boycotted by the Soviet Union and several other countries basically as payback for the previous boycott.