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Over a hundred years ago, the first Olympics was held in Athens. The event featured 280 participants from 13 nations, competing in 43 events. While the Olympics has shown to improve the public spirit within countries, no one would believe that “games” could have such a big part in lives in all countries. Since 1994, the Summer and Winter Olympic Games have been held separately and have alternated every two years. That would explain the 1980 and the 1984 summer and winter Olympics were tougher and not how people of today came to know. There are 15 winter games and one would cause memory that would never be forgotten.
In the 1980 Winter Olympics, the United States pulled off a miracle by beating the Soviet Union hockey team. The 1980 Winter …show more content…

1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The reason for the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan was to strengthen the communist government against the growing insurgency of People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan. After these action 65 nation boycotted the Olympics games and 80 countries sent athletes to be in the competition. Why does it matter? How does affect US? Well US was a part of the boycott and it changes the way people saw America. Behind the seen US had problem with Central Asia, so they started to have some presser on the Soviet Union to back out of Afghanistan. Some of the stuff they were going to do was grain embargo, the elimination of the Salt II agreement, along with boycott of the Olympics. On January 14, 1980, the countries set a deadline for them leave or face the penalty at hand. They even took a vote at the House of Representative to never step foot in Moscow with a 386 in favor of it and other 12 opposed. Congress cannot make that decision, but the United States Olympic Committee can. They will have the final say in the situation. The problem at hand will stand that no one will go to Moscow and some countries took it to the next step by not allowing any athlete to go. America had some struggles back home with these decision. 25 American athletes protested that they should be allowed to go to compete. The government said if they were to leave while the act was in place they would be stripped of

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