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

Content: However, it was later disclosed that both the Soviet Union and East Germany boosted their performances with the help of state-run steroid programs. Soviet doping plan
Documents obtained in 2016 revealed the Soviet Union's plans for a statewide doping system in track and field in preparation for the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Dated prior to the country's decision to boycott the Games, the document detailed the existing steroids operations of the program, along with suggestions for further enhancements. The communication, directed to the Soviet Union's head of track and field, was prepared by Dr. Sergei Portugalov of the Institute for Physical Culture. Portugalov was also one of the main figures involved in the implementation of the Russian doping program prior to the 2016 Summer Olympics. 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.