Study of Boycotts in Olympic Games

Today Olympic and politics have merged in an interminable break. The purpose of this research was to study of the modern Olympic boycotts. The purpose of this research was to study the modern Olympic boycotts. For this purpose is used the documents, books, articles and websites has been associated with the Olympic Games and the Olympic boycotts since of 1986 to 2012. 30 periods of the Olympic Games was considered as the research sample. The results show that the two most publicized boycotts were of the 1980 Moscow and the 1984 Los Angeles Games. Most observers agree that one of the consequences of the American boycott of the 1980 Games was the Soviet boycott of the 1984 Los Angeles Games. The based this research an Olympic boycott must be credibly attached with a loss of income in order for the host nation to take it seriously. In the event that a city has spent billions of dollars leading up to the Games, it would not want to see its efforts wasted by boycott or relocation.