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Olympic Boycott

The Sochi Olympics are nearing its final days. I have watched no live events in accord with a personal ban against Russia’s hardline against homosexuality and free speech. Putin has instituted draconian measures against any protests. Yesterday Cossacks attacked members of Pussy Riot with whips. They were dragged down to the police station and thankfully […]

Boycotting the Olympics

No nations attended the 1916 Berlin Olympics due to WWI and WWII canceled the 1940 and 1944 Olympiads. In 1948 the USSR sent no athletes to London, but it wasn’t until the 1956 Olympics that nations boycotted the event to protest political differences with Egypt, Iraq, and Lebanon withdrawing after the Suez Canal invasion by […]