From the Archives, 1980 ‘Crushed’ Raelene Boyle pulls out of Olympics

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In 1980, Raelene Boyle withdrew from the Australian Olympic team for the 1980 Moscow Olympics. Many countries and some individual athletes around the world decided to join the US led boycott of the Games, as a protest against the Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan.

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