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The 1980 Summer Olympics officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad was an international multi-sport event held in Moscow in the Soviet Union.The 1980 Games were the first to be staged in Eastern Europe.Led by the US with the insistence of its President Jimmy Carter 65 countries boycotted the games because of the Soviet war in Afghanistan though some athletes from some of the boycotting countries participated in the games under the Olympic Flag.
