page_title: 1984 Summer Olympics
section_title: Boycotting countries
hierarchical_section_title: 1984 Summer Olympics / Boycotting countries
caption_attribution_description: Suomi: Vuoden 1984 Kesäolympialaisten boikotti valtiot (sinisellä kartalla) English: 1984 Summer Olympics boycotting countries (blue color on the map)
context_page_description: The 1984 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event that was held from July 28 to August 12, 1984, in Los Angeles, California, United States. This was the second time that Los Angeles had hosted the Games, the first being in 1932.
  California was the home state of then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan, who officially opened the Games. The logo for the 1984 Games, branded "Stars in Motion", featured red, white and blue stars arranged horizontally and struck through with alternating streaks.
  The official mascot of the Games was Sam the Olympic Eagle. These were the first Summer Olympic Games under the IOC presidency of Juan Antonio Samaranch.
  The 1984 Games were boycotted by a total of fourteen Eastern Bloc countries, including the Soviet Union and East Germany, in response to the American-led boycott of the previous 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow in protest of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan; Romania was the only Eastern Bloc nation that opted to attend the Games. Iran and Libya also chose to boycott the Games for unrelated reasons.
context_section_description: Fourteen countries took part in the Soviet-led boycott of the 1984 Summer Olympics:
   Afghanistan
   Angola
   Bulgaria
   Cuba
   Czechoslovakia
   East Germany
   Ethiopia
   Hungary
   Laos
   Mongolia
   North Korea
   Poland
   Soviet Union
   Vietnam
  Albania, Iran and Libya also boycotted the Los Angeles Olympics, citing political reasons, but these countries were not a part of the Soviet-led boycott. Albania and Iran were the only two countries to boycott both the 1980 and 1984 Summer Games.
   Albania
   Iran
   Libya
caption: Countries that boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics are shaded blue
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