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New Zealand joined the United States and other countries in boycotting the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow. There were four New Zealand athletes, kayakers Ian Ferguson, Alan Thompson, and Geoff Walker, and modern pentathlete Brian Newth, that competed as independents under the flag of the New Zealand Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association.
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What are facts about the 1980 Moscow Olympics?
It was the largest boycotted Olympics in Olympic history.
What Olympic Games were boycotted by the US?
The 1980 Summer Olympics was boycotted by the U.S. and 64 other countries.
Which Olympics were boycotted?
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.
Did America participate in the 1980 Olympics?
The US and 64 other countries boycotted the 1980 olympic games because of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
Who cancelled summer Olympics in 1980?
No one cancelled it; it was just majorly boycotted.
