Olympic Boycott 1984 Research Paper
Gil Craddock
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1984 Olympic Boycott
The summer Olympics of 1984 was a very exciting Olympic trial. It was full of controversy, records, and it was held in the near and dear Los Angeles. This was during the cold war against the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union decided to boycott the Olympics held in Los Angeles to prove that the U.S would not control them. In 1979 The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. Afghanistan was an ally of the U.S., so on March 21 President Jimmy Carter stated that the U.S. would be boycotting the 1980 Olympics held in Moscow. An African representative at the event stated that a boycott would be an effective symbolic protest because of its dramatic visibility to the citizens of the Soviet Union, regardless of
Per.3
1984 Olympic Boycott
The summer Olympics of 1984 was a very exciting Olympic trial. It was full of controversy, records, and it was held in the near and dear Los Angeles. This was during the cold war against the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union decided to boycott the Olympics held in Los Angeles to prove that the U.S would not control them. In 1979 The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. Afghanistan was an ally of the U.S., so on March 21 President Jimmy Carter stated that the U.S. would be boycotting the 1980 Olympics held in Moscow. An African representative at the event stated that a boycott would be an effective symbolic protest because of its dramatic visibility to the citizens of the Soviet Union, regardless of