“It is ‘force majeure’” : the abrupt boycott movements of the 1956 Melbourne Summer Olympic Games
Journal: Texas ScholarWorks (Texas Digital Library)
Year: 2017

Why do countries boycott the Olympic Games? The nature of boycott movements in the Olympic Games has been covered extensively in academic literature, and scholars rely on a limited set of cases to determine how and why these boycotts occur. The 1956 Summer Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia, experienced a flurry of boycotts from delegations from seven different countries in the weeks leading up to the opening ceremonies, resulting in a scramble by the International Olympic Committee (I.O.C.)