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- Athletes from the United States were very
- successful at the 1984 Summer Olympics,
- in Los Angeles, California, winning more
- medals (174) than athletes from any other
- country. (Romania, with 53, was second.)
- But the AmericansΓÇÖ success was due in
- large part to the boycott of those games by
- the Soviet Union.
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- Four years earlier, the Olympics had been
- held in Moscow, in the Soviet Union. In
- protest of the Soviet invasion of the country
- of Afghanistan, the United States and a few
- other countries, including West Germany