Tokyo 2021 tops number of athletes

Athletes

Over 60 countries boycotted the Moscow Olympics over the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

Over 60 countries boycotted the Moscow Olympics over the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

*Athlete figures vary depending on source. Official Olympic site data was used.

Source: "Regression to the tail: Why the Olympics blow up" by Bent Flyvbjerg, Alexander Budzier, Daniel Lunn