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The United States have competed in every single Modern Olympic with the exception of 1980 summer Olympics. That was the year President of the United States Ronald Reagan declared that United States athletes would boycott the games of the XXII (22nd) Olympiad in protest to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
No the US boycotted the 1980 summer games in Moscow, President Jimmy Carter choose play politics with the games and not send the US team.
The USSR choose to boycott the 1984 games in LA as payback.
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