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Olympic Games - MSN Encarta (1350 words) |
 | At the 1976 Games, again held in Innsbruck, American Dorothy Hamill won the women’s figure skating gold medal and John Curry became the first British man to win the men’s skating title. |
| The issue that prompted the 1980 boycott of the Moscow Games was the 1979 invasion of Afghanistan by the USSR. |
| Once Carter acted to spoil the Moscow Games (as a total of 62 nations finally refused to participate), it became clear that the USSR and its allies would retaliate with a boycott of the 1984 Games in Los Angeles. |
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