Title: 1984 Summer Olympics boycott - Wikipedia
Headings: 1984 Summer Olympics boycott
1984 Summer Olympics boycott
Contents
Announcement of boycott
Revenge hypothesis
Soviet doping plan
Boycotting countries
Non-boycotting Marxist-Leninist countries
Alternative events
See also
References

Content: Filmmaker and director of 2017 movie Icarus Bryan Fogel has said that stricter doping controls might have been the main reason for the Soviet boycott. Boycotting countries
Listed in the chronological order of their withdrawal, not by alphabetical or any geographical order. Soviet Union
Bulgaria
East Germany
Mongolia
Vietnam
Laos
Czechoslovakia
Afghanistan
Hungary
Poland
Cuba
North Korea
Ethiopia
Angola
Three other countries also boycotted the games, citing political reasons, but were not part of the Soviet-led boycott: Albania
Iran
Libya
Further to this, Kampuchea was largely unrecognized, and in any case would not have been allowed to compete. Non-boycotting Marxist-Leninist countries
Seven communist and socialist countries, four from Africa, did not join the Soviet-led boycott and instead sent teams to the 1984 Summer Olympics. Benin
China was somewhat hostile towards the Soviet Union at the time, but had been experiencing a cordial relationship with the United States. In 1980, China had sent a team to the Winter Olympics in the United States, while boycotting the Summer Olympics in the Soviet Union. Congo
Mozambique
Romania was the only member of the Warsaw Pact that did not boycott the Games. Its leader, Nicolae Ceaușescu, was famous for openly opposing various policies of the Soviet Union; he was awarded the Olympic Order in 1985 for this issue.