{"id":4753,"date":"2026-05-11T11:46:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T15:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.histoiresdecheznous.ca\/v3\/olympiques-montreal-1976-olympics\/?post_type=csat-story-chapter&#038;p=4753"},"modified":"2026-06-18T14:16:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T18:16:54","slug":"the-boycott","status":"publish","type":"csat-story-chapter","link":"https:\/\/www.histoiresdecheznous.ca\/v3\/olympiques-montreal-1976-olympics\/en\/story\/the-boycott\/","title":{"rendered":"The boycott"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div class=\"csat-block wp-block-csat-blocks-rich-text no-parent csat-block width_layout_contained\">\t\t\t<div class=\"inner-content\">\n\t\n<div class=\"wp-block-csat-blocks-block-rich-text\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The year 1976 was a time of strained international relations. During the summer leading up to the Olympic Games, <strong>32 countries<\/strong>, including <strong>29 African states<\/strong>, decided to boycott the Montreal Games. The African nations were protesting the presence of New Zealand, whose rugby team had toured South Africa. The latter country had been banned from the Games since 1964 because of apartheid, a racist political system that discriminated against the predominantly black population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To show solidarity, African countries withdrew from the Montreal Games. This meant several events were missing top competitors, while the athletes themselves also lost the chance to show off their talents on the global stage. It was even more heartbreaking for the African athletes who had already travelled to Montreal and taken part in the opening ceremony, and were then informed they had to leave the following morning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\t<div class=\"wp-block-csat-media-element no-parent csat-block width_contained alignment_centered\">\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner-container\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<figure class=\"media-element image-container\" data-image-width=\"1000\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"image-frame launch-media-modal media-thumbnail type-image media-element-4534\"\n\t\t\t\t   href=\"https:\/\/www.histoiresdecheznous.ca\/v3\/olympiques-montreal-1976-olympics\/en\/gallery\/kenyan-athletes\/\"\n\t\t\t\t   data-media-element=\"4534\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"sr-only\">D\u00e9tails de l&rsquo;image &mdash;  <\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.histoiresdecheznous.ca\/v3\/olympiques-montreal-1976-olympics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/183\/2026\/05\/m2020951572524-20260112-p2-ra-1000.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Yvan Dubois, the Director General and Mayor of the Olympic Village, talks with Kenyan athletes dressed primarily in red and white. 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Since Canada had officially recognized the People&rsquo;s Republic of China (PRC), it refused to allow <strong>Taiwan<\/strong> to compete under its usual name of the Republic of China (ROC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the end, 88 countries took part in the Montreal Games, despite these major political issues.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":4754,"template":"","class_list":["post-4753","csat-story-chapter","type-csat-story-chapter","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":4753,"fr":1142},"pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.histoiresdecheznous.ca\/v3\/olympiques-montreal-1976-olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/csat-story-chapter\/4753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.histoiresdecheznous.ca\/v3\/olympiques-montreal-1976-olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/csat-story-chapter"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.histoiresdecheznous.ca\/v3\/olympiques-montreal-1976-olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/csat-story-chapter"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.histoiresdecheznous.ca\/v3\/olympiques-montreal-1976-olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/csat-story-chapter\/4753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6335,"href":"https:\/\/www.histoiresdecheznous.ca\/v3\/olympiques-montreal-1976-olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/csat-story-chapter\/4753\/revisions\/6335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.histoiresdecheznous.ca\/v3\/olympiques-montreal-1976-olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.histoiresdecheznous.ca\/v3\/olympiques-montreal-1976-olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}