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SF Changes Olympic Torch Route At Last Minute - Olympic Torch Relay News Story - KNBC | Los Angeles
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Apr 9, 6:41pm
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Historic Olympic boycotts, from the page:Historical Look At Olympic Protests
As history shows, the Olympics' ability to command international attention makes its entanglement with politics inevitable. Here is a brief timeline of the biggest protests and political statements in Olympic history.
1936 -- Berlin. Protesters call on the International Olympic Committee to remove the Games from Berlin because of the Nazi's publicly anti-Jewish policies. The IOC refuses to change the location and the Olympics go on.
1956 - Melbourne. Egypt, Lebanon, and Iraq boycott the games in protest of the Israeli invasion of the Sinai Peninsula. The Netherlands, Spain, and Switzerland boycott in protest of the Soviet invasion of Hungary.
1964 - Tokyo. Indonesia and North Korea boycott the Games after the IOC classifies a number of their athletes ineligible. South Africa is banned from participating because of its segregation policy of apartheid.
1968 - Mexico City. A student protest against the government turns violent 10 days before the Games, when the Mexican army kills more than 200 students. During the Games US black runners Tommy Smith and Jan Carlos raise the black power symbol with their fists from the podium and are expelled from the ceremonies.
1972 - Munich. Palestinian terrorists break in to the Israeli compound in the Olympic village and take nine hostages to bring attention to their demands against the Israeli government. 11 athletes are murdered altogether.
1976 - Montreal. 26 African and Carribbean countries boycott the Games because of the IOC's refusal to ban New Zealand from participating, whose rugby team played in South Africa. Taiwan boycotts when Canada does not accept its request to be recognized at the Games as the Republic of China.
1980. Moscow. President Carter leads about 60 other countries in the largest boycott of the Games in history in response the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan in 1979.
1984. Los Angeles. The Soviet Union, East Germany and Cuba boycott the Games in response to the 1980 U.S.-led boycott.
1988. Seoul. North Korea boycotts, upset over not being able to co-host the Games. Cuba and Ethiopia take North Korea's lead and refuse to participate.
Since then no major protests or boycotts have marked the arrival of the Games. Until now.
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