 It has competed at the Olympics on an intermittent basis since its debut, with a 12 year gap taking place before it returned at the 1980 Games in Moscow, Soviet Union, and then not attending the following games in 1984.It had boycotted the 1976 Summer Olympics because of the inclusion of the New Zealand team at the Games despite the breach of the international sports boycott of South Africa by the nation's rugby union team shortly prior.It also boycotted the 1984 Games, following the rejection of visas to three Libyan journalists by the United States.