After the incident with a plane flying a banner urging Cuban athletes to defect in the opening ceremony, Cuban immigrants to the United States continued to use the games as a way to confront the Castro regime, using the Cuban athletes as a proxy.
Following the plane flying a banner urging Cuban athletes to defect at the opening ceremony, Cuban immigrants in the U.S. persisted in using the games to confront the Castro regime by treating the Cuban athletes as surrogates.