1948 Due to its international status as aggressors of World War II, Germany and Japan were excluded from the London Olympic Games.
1956 International boycotts in the Melbourne Summer Olympics.While Egypt, Iraq, and Lebanon withdrew to protest the Israeli-led invasion of the Suez Canal, three European nations —Holland, Liechtenstein, Spain,and Switzerland— also boycotted the Games to protest the Soviet invasion of Hungary.
1964 North Korea and Indonesia could not participate in the Summer Olympics in Tokyo (Japan).
1976 In political position to sporting links between New Zealand and the white-ruled South Africa, Africa -with the exception of the Francophone republics of Cote d’Ivoire and Senegal- and some countries in the Third World, including Guyana and Iraq, refused to compete in the Games of the 21st Olympiad in Montreal (Quebec, Canada).
1976 The anti-Communist China, also known as the Republic of China, announced plans to withdraw from the Montreal Olympics after a disagreement with Canada’s administration of Premier Pierre Trudeau, one of Beijing’s allies in the Americas during Cold War. The island objected to compete under the name of Taiwan.
1980 At the request of President Jimmy Carter, who was exacerbated by the invasion of Afghanistan, the U.S. Olympic Committee voted against U.S. participation in the Moscow Games. Then, over 50 American allies also boycotted the Games.
1980 Despite a 1979 Olympic Agreement between La Paz and the USSR, Bolivia’s rule declined to send national athletes to the Moscow 1980 Summer Games. National stars such as the Bolivarian champs Edgar Cueto (cycling) and Antonieta Arizaga (aquatics) and the South American medalist Johnny Perez (track-and-field) lost the chance to gain a status as Olympic athletes for the first time.
1980 With the exception of Colombia and the Central American republics of Costa Rica and Guatemala, all anti-communist states from Latin America boycotted the 1980 Summer Olympics. Athletes like the Paraguayan-born Argentine decathlete Tito Steinier (silver medalist at the 1979 Pan American Games on Puerto Rico), Chile’s distance runner Alejandra Ramos, and the racewalker Santiago Fonseca of Honduras could not go to Moscow for political reasons.
1984 Moscow and the Soviet-bloc countries, among the most powerful Olympic nations on the Planet, refused to take part in the Olympiad in Southern California.
1984 Because of its status as anti-American states, Libya and Albania’s Maoist did not accept the invitation to send Olympic delegations to Los Angeles.
1988 For ideological reasons, Albania, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Nicaragua, North Korea (also known as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) and Seychelles boycotted the Olympics on South Korean soil.
1988 Because of its special links between North Korea and Havana, Cuba’s Olympic delegation wasn’t allowed to compete in the Seoul Olympics by the island’s left-wing leader Fidel Castro Ruz.
1988 In a historic step, the USSR and its ideological partners in Eastern Europea decided not to boycott the Summer Olympic Games in the anti-Communist state of South Korea.
1988 Eight Marxist states from Africa (Angola, Benin, Congo, Guinea, Mali, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zambia) competed in the Summer Olympiad.
1988 Despite its close ties to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) sent a powerful Olympic delegation to the Seoul Games. Other Communist states from Asia like Laos and Vietnam also sent delegations to Korea.
1996 Cuba’s Marxist government allowed their Olympian delegation to attend the Centennial Olympic Games in the U.S. city of Atlanta, Georgia.
2008 Despite not having official ties to Beijing’s Communist rule, twenty-three countries, Taiwan’s diplomatic partners in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and South Pacific, announced plans to attend the Olympics in China.
2008 Brunei Darussalam did not compete in the Games of the 29th Olympiad in Beijing.
