# Does anyone legitmate actually dispute the "Revenge" idea of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics Boycott?
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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [January 17, 2022, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-legitmate-actually-dispute-the-revenge-idea-of-the-1984-los-angeles-olympics-boycott/957920 "2022-01-17T05:26:54Z")
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### Author:  [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2022, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-legitmate-actually-dispute-the-revenge-idea-of-the-1984-los-angeles-olympics-boycott/957920/41 "2022-01-18T08:03:15Z")
To be clear, I did not select the article based on agreement (or not) with the OP. At the time, I remember it being payback for 1980, but then that’s what I could have been told, too.
Me, I’m perfectly fine living in a world where the Americans blame Soviet payback, AND the Soviets blame fear of American xenophobia. Sounds about right on both sides, to be truthful.
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### Author:  [@Schnitte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schnitte)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2022, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-legitmate-actually-dispute-the-revenge-idea-of-the-1984-los-angeles-olympics-boycott/957920/42 "2022-01-18T10:46:38Z")
Perhaps not mass defections at a single interaction of the games, but throughout the existence of the Iron Curtain there was a steady chain of individual athletes who used these opportunities. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/08/02/olympic-defectors-history/](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/08/02/olympic-defectors-history/)
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