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Goodwill Games
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Goodwill Games
The
Goodwill Games
, also known as
Ted Turner's Games
, was an international sports competition created by
Ted Turner
in reaction to the political troubles surrounding the
Olympic Games
of the 1980s. In 1979, the
invasion of Afghanistan
caused the
United States
and other
Western countries
to boycott the
1980 Summer Olympics
in
Moscow
, an act reciprocated when the
Soviet
and other
Eastern Bloc
countries (with the exception of
Romania
) boycotted the
1984 Summer Olympics
in
Los Angeles
.
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