Altered Participants
Sixteen nations participated in the Games, but paraded into the Olympic stadium without their national flags.
Read more about this topic: 1980 Summer Olympics Boycott
Famous quotes containing the words altered and/or participants:
“The generation of women before us who rushed to fill the corporate ranks altered our expectations of what working motherhood could be, tempered our ambition, and exploded the supermom myth many of us held dear.”
—Melinda M. Marshall (20th century)
“A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.”
—Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)