List of Boycotts - Sporting Boycotts

Sporting Boycotts

Certain countries have declined to participate in international sporting events to protest the host nation's policies or actions.

Event Participants Host nation Cause Main article References
1936 Summer Olympics Athletes from 22 nations Nazi Germany German fascism People's Olympiad
1938 FIFA World Cup Various American nations France Selection of a second successive World Cup in Europe
1976 Summer Olympics Various African nations Canada Participation of New Zealand, which had sporting contact with apartheid South Africa Sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era
1980 Summer Olympics United States
Various nations		 Soviet Union Soviet war in Afghanistan 1980 Summer Olympics boycott
1984 Summer Olympics Warsaw Pact states except Romania
Cuba		 United States 1980 Summer Olympics boycott 1984 Summer Olympics boycott
Friendship Games
1986 Commonwealth Games 32 nations Scotland The Thatcher Government's attitude towards sporting links with South Africa Sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era
1988 Summer Olympics North Korea
Albania, Cuba, Madagascar, Seychelles		 South Korea State of war between North and South Korea

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