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The boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games as an example of political use of sport events
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The aim of the article is to analyze the boycott of the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow and its evaluation, concerning its causes and motivation of policy-makers. An attempt to verify the following hypotheses was made: lack of understanding of the way the Olympic movement functioned by the American administration was one of the reason for limited success of the boycott; the USSR did not expect that intervention in Afghanistan could lead to a boycott of the Olympics.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/k.2016.23.2.149
Date of publication: 2017-07-17 13:08:26
Date of submission: 2016-03-14 15:01:18
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