List of Olympic Games boycotts

The Olympic Games is a major international multi-sport event. During its history there have been boycotts on six occasions, all of the Summer Olympics. The first boycott occurred at the 1956 Summer Olympics and the most recent was at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Rhodesia was prevented from entering when its invitation to the 1972 Summer Olympics was withdrawn by the International Olympic Committee, following protests by other African countries. South Africa was not invited to the 1964 games, and its invitation to the 1968 games was withdrawn when numerous other teams threatened to withdraw. South Africa was not permitted to return to the Olympics until the 1992 Summer Olympics.

List

Olympiad	Year	Host Country	Host City	Boycotting and non-attending countries (with map)
XI	1936	Germany	Berlin	Spain Note: withdrew because of the Civil war Soviet Union Note: the USSR did not participate at the Summer Olympics until 1952
XVI	1956	Australia	Melbourne	Egypt Iraq Lebanon Netherlands Cambodia Spain Switzerland People's Republic of China
XVIII	1964	Japan	Tokyo	North Korea Indonesia People's Republic of China
XXI	1976	Canada	Montreal	Algeria Benin Burma Cameroon Central African Republic Chad Congo Egypt Ethiopia Gabon Gambia Ghana Guyana Iraq Kenya Libya Lesotho Madagascar Malawi Mali Morocco Niger Nigeria Republic of China Somalia Sri Lanka Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Upper Volta Zambia
XXII	1980	Soviet Union	Moscow	Albania (no reason given) Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belize Bermuda Bolivia Canada Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chad Chile China Egypt El Salvador Fiji Gabon Gambia Ghana Haiti Honduras British Hong Kong Indonesia Iran Israel Ivory Coast Japan Kenya South Korea Liberia Liechtenstein Malawi Malaysia Mauritania Monaco Mauritius Morocco Netherlands Antilles Niger Norway Pakistan Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Philippines Qatar Saudi Arabia Singapore Somalia Sudan Suriname Swaziland Chinese Taipei / Taiwan (protesting the Nagoya Resolution designating it as "Chinese Taipei") Thailand Togo Tunisia Turkey United Arab Emirates United States Uruguay United States Virgin Islands West Germany Zaire
XXIII	1984	United States	Los Angeles	Soviet Union Bulgaria East Germany Mongolia Vietnam Laos Czechoslovakia Afghanistan Hungary Poland Cuba South Yemen North Korea Ethiopia Angola Albania Iran Libya
XXIV	1988	South Korea	Seoul	Ethiopia (did not respond to invitation) Nicaragua (financial) Madagascar (financial) Cuba Albania (did not respond to invitation) North Korea Seychelles (did not respond to invitation)