USSR Olympic games 1980 Please help?

Question

im doing school assignment on different Olympic games, can you tell me of any controversies at these Olympic games or any problems, thanks 10 points best answer

Answer 1

w.w.w.olympic.org - Official Website of the Olympic Movement.

Did you know?

MOSCOW 1980

The American Boycott

The Olympics were disrupted by a boycott led by U.S. president Jimmy Carter, part of a package of actions to protest the December 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

Carter engaged in extensive arm-twisting to gain support from other nations.

Some governments, like those of Great Britain and Australia, supported the boycott but allowed the athletes to decide for themselves whether to go to Moscow.

No such freedom of choice was allowed U.S. athletes, as Carter threatened to revoke the passport of any athlete who tried to travel to the USSR. In the end, 65 nations turned down their invitations to the Olympics; probably 45 to 50 did so because of the U.S.-led boycott.

Eighty nations did participate - the lowest number since 1956.

Answer 2

The United States and a number of other western nations boycotted the Moscow Olympics in 1980 in protest at the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan the previous year.  

This had the following predictable impacts

a) Soviet foreign policy did not change in any way whatsoever

b) The USSR and East Germany won vast numbers of gold medals.

It is now generally agreed that the 1980 games, along with the 1976 Montreal games were the most drug-soaked in history.  The East German female swimmers in particular were subject to a government-backed doping programme that has left most of them with major long-term health problems.  

Enjoy!

Answer 3

USA boycotted the games in retaliation of USSR invasion of afghanistan.  In the next olympics 1984 which was held in LA, the soviets returned the favour by boycotting that games

Answer 4

'80 US boycotted USSR

'84 USSR boycotted US

Unfortunately the Olympics have often felt the brunt of political actions.

This CNN link has a lot of bits about some of them.

'72 terrorist were the worst.