Throughout its wide history, the Olympic movement has been affected and plagued since its inception by politics, but the boycott has never succeeded in preventing the holding of the Olympics or changing the dates of their holding, nor has it succeeded in changing the political conditions that took place for it.

Hungary, for example, participated in an independent mission in the first Olympic Games in the modern era, which was hosted by the Greek capital Athens in 1896, despite Hungary being part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the time.

And justified the French Pierre de Coubertin - the founder of the modern Olympics - by saying that "Olympic geopolitics nullify the sovereignty of the state."

But Olympic unity actually faded when the losers of World War I deprived Germany, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey, by government decision, from participating in the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium, and Germany was denied participation in the 1924 Olympics in Paris.

The same thing happened after World War II;

Where Germany and Japan were denied participation in the 1948 London Olympics.

Nazi propaganda

Nazi German leader Adolf Hitler used the 1936 Berlin Olympics as a way to showcase and propagandize Nazi principles.

The boycotts began from 1952 onwards during the Cold War years, said Siegfried Edsturm, then-president of the International Olympic Committee, "after the participation of the Soviet Union led to the politicization of the Olympic Games."

In 1956, Spain, the Netherlands, and Switzerland decided not to participate in the Melbourne Olympics due to the brutal Soviet suppression of the popular revolution in Hungary.

Egypt, Iraq and Lebanon also boycotted the Olympic Games in protest of Israel's participation in the tripartite aggression against Egypt.

The most "dark season" in the history of the Olympic Games was in 1972, when a group of Palestinians attacked the headquarters of the Israeli delegation participating in the Munich Olympics and killed two members of the delegation.

Then, 9 other Israeli hostages were killed, in addition to a German policeman and 5 Palestinian "militants" due to the wrong implementation of the rescue operation by the German police.

"The cycle must continue," said Afri Brundage, then president of the International Olympic Committee, during a mourning ceremony at the Olympic Stadium in Munich.

And 28 African countries left Montreal just before the opening ceremony of the 1976 Olympics in protest of the International Olympic Committee's refusal to exclude New Zealand from participating in the Games because of the New Zealand team's visit to South Africa, which was suspended by the International Olympic Committee itself from participating in the Olympic Games between 1964 and 1988 as a result of the policy of separation. apartheid by the South African government.

America and the Soviet Union

Only 4 years later, the United States led 42 countries to boycott the 1980 Moscow Olympics due to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, while the countries of the West were divided on this matter;

Britain, France and other European countries decided to participate in that session.

It was not surprising that the Soviet Union and most of its allies responded by boycotting the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, even if Romania and China participated, as China found an amazing reception in its first participation in the Olympic Games.

However, the Soviet Union did not withdraw from Afghanistan due to the US boycott of the 1980 Olympics, and the policy of apartheid in South Africa continued for more than a decade after the 1976 Olympics.

The Olympics - from the 1988 Seoul Olympics onwards - did not witness any boycott, and no country announced its boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympics despite the issue of Tibet and other concerns surrounding China's hosting of this session due to human rights.

US Olympic Committee spokesman Daryl Seibel said in March 2008 that the Olympic boycott is at the top of the list of worst ideas, and explained that "besides its contribution to the unjust punishment of athletes, it has not resulted in anything."