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The 1980 Olympics in Moscow were the smallest in nearly two decades, due to a U.S.-led boycott to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. Sixty countries followed the U.S.'s lead, though Great Britain, France, Italy, and Sweden attended. With so few competitors, the Soviet team collected 195 medals, including 80 gold. Photograph by IOC/Olympic Museum Collections/Mario Pescante