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Originally Posted by cbax5
Olympic boycotts do not work!
It was the US supplied, Al-Queda back, Mujhideen that got the Soviets out of Afganistan. Not the US lead boycott of the 1980 Moscow games....
The days of the Olympics being a venue of great politcal consequence are over....
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The best "non sport" accomplishment the Olympics have ever achieved was kudos for the Civil Rights movement and a smack down of CCCP boosting cold war egos in the States. In Munich it simply showed that terrorists knew no bounds.
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