1984 COCA COLA OLYMPIC PIN SET 150 LIMITED EDITION

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RARE LIMITED EDITION OFFICIAL - BOYCOTTED LOS ANGELES OLYMPICS The USSR announced its intentions to boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics on May 8, 1984. [1 ] Six more countries followed within days: Bulgaria , then East Germany (on May 10, citing the attitude of the U.S. government for "destroy[ing] the basis" of its desired participation [2 ]), followed by Mongolia and Vietnam (both May 11), [3 ] and then Laos and Czechoslovakia (both May 13), with China formally accepting that it would be present in Los Angeles as the Laotians and Czechs announced their decision to absent themselves. [4 ] Afghanistan was the eighth country to boycott the 1984 Olympics. [5 ] Hungary and Poland were the ninth and tenth countries to join the boycott on May 16 and May 17 respectively, Hungary saying the lives of its athletes would be put in danger if they were to spend time in Los Angeles, Poland saying the United States was engaging in a "campaign aimed at disturbing the Games" and the Soviet Union saying the White House intended to permit any possible massacre of Soviet athletes in their apartments, leaving Romania as the only Soviet ally to participate in the games. [6 ][ 7] Cuba was the eleventh country to announce its participation in the boycott, making front page news in America because it was a "serious blow to boxing and baseball" (May 24). [ read more

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