Editing List of boycotts (section)

== Sporting ==

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| [[1936 Summer Olympics]] || Athletes from 22 nations || {{Flag|Nazi Germany}}|| German [[fascism]] and [[Nazism]] || [[People's Olympiad]] || 
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| [[1938 FIFA World Cup]] || Various [[South America]]n nations || {{Flag|Third French Republic|name=France}}|| Selection of a second successive [[FIFA World Cup|World Cup]] in [[Europe]]||  || {{citation needed|date=May 2013}}
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|[[1939 International University Games (Vienna)]]
|[[Confédération Internationale des Étudiants]]
|{{Flag|Nazi Germany}}
|[[Anschluss|German annexation of Austria]] 
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| [[1956 Summer Olympics]]|| [[Cambodia]], [[Egypt]], [[Iraq]], [[Lebanon]], [[Netherlands]], [[Spain]], [[Switzerland]], [[China]]|| {{Flag|Australia}}|| [[Suez Crisis]], [[Soviet Union at the 1956 Summer Olympics|presence of the Soviet Union]] after the [[Hungarian Revolution of 1956|Hungarian Revolution]], and the [[Republic of China at the 1956 Summer Olympics|presence of Taiwan]]
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|[[1964 Summer Olympics]]
|[[China]], [[North Korea]], [[Indonesia]]
|{{Flag|Japan}}
|Suspension of Indonesia
| [[GANEFO]]
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|[[1966 FIFA World Cup]]
|31 [[Confederation of African Football|Confederation of Africa Football]] nations
|{{Flag|United Kingdom}}
|Play-off qualifications and readmission of apartheid South Africa
| {{section link|1966 FIFA World Cup#African boycott}}
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|[[1974 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA–CONMEBOL play-off)]]
|[[Soviet Union]]
|{{Flag|Chile}}
|[[1973 Chilean coup d'état]]
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| [[1976 Summer Olympics]]|| Various [[Africa]]n nations || {{Flag|Canada}}|| [[New Zealand at the 1976 Summer Olympics|Participation of New Zealand]], which had [[1976 New Zealand rugby union tour of South America|sporting contact with apartheid South Africa]]|| [[Sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era]]||
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| [[1980 Summer Olympics]] || [[United States]]<br />Various nations || {{Flag|Soviet Union}} || [[Soviet–Afghan War]] || [[1980 Summer Olympics boycott]] ||
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| [[1984 Summer Olympics]] || [[Warsaw Pact]] states (except [[Socialist Republic of Romania|Romania]])<br />[[Cuba]]||{{Flag|United States}} || 1980 Summer Olympics boycott || [[1984 Summer Olympics boycott]]<br />[[Friendship Games]] ||
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| [[1986 Commonwealth Games]] || 32 Afro-Asian nations and 10 Caribbean nations || {{Flag|United Kingdom}} || The [[Margaret Thatcher|Thatcher]] Government's attitude towards sporting links with [[South Africa]] || [[Sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era]] ||
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| [[1988 Summer Olympics]] || [[North Korea]]<br />[[Albania]], [[Cuba]], [[Madagascar]], [[Seychelles]] || {{Flag|South Korea}} || [[Korean conflict]]|| || {{citation needed|date=May 2013}}
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|[[1995 South Pacific Games]]
|[[Samoa|Western Samoa]], [[American Samoa]], [[Nauru]], [[Niue]]
|{{Flag|French Polynesia}}
|[[French nuclear weapons testing]] in [[Moruroa|Mururoa]]
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|[[2017–18 Biathlon World Cup – Stage 9]]
|[[United States]], [[Canada]], [[Czech Republic]], [[Ukraine]]
|{{Flag|Russia}}
|[[Russian doping scandal]]
[[Russo-Ukrainian War]] 
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|[[2022 Winter Olympics]]
|Diplomats from various countries
|{{Flag|China}}
|[[Chinese human rights issues]]
|{{Section link|Concerns and controversies at the 2022 Winter Olympics#Diplomatic boycotts or non-attendance}}
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