Olympics in 1956, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984 were boycotted by several nations for reasons ranging from communist aggression, apartheid, cold-war egos. China successfully pressurized Canada during Olympics in 1976 to boycott Taiwan. Olympics and world Politics go together as it is the grandest stage of human get-together where disputes can be highlighted, and only a lame person will say Olympics should be free from politics. Who can forget the Munich Olympics where an unknown PLO(and it's leader Yasser Arafat) came to the limelight by stage managing the murder of 11 Israeli Jews.
