Guess which country is a gold medallist for Olympic boycotts? Surely not the country that claimed recently a diplomatic boycott to be a ‘political manipulation and a grave distortion of the Olympic Charter’…
If you guessed China, you would be correct.
The People’s Republic of China boycotted the Olympics in Melbourne in 1956, Tokyo in 1964, Montreal in 1976, and Moscow in 1980.
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