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Jimmy Carter pulled the US out of the 1980 Summer Olympics as a protest against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. He got 60 other nations to go along with the boycott so the it had a bad effect on the Olympics. The Soviet bloc retaliated by boycotting the 1984 summer Olympics, so that one was spoiled as well, although the US women's gym team may have liked their chance to win some gold/

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