Morocco at the Olympics Morocco at the Olympics Morocco first participated at the Olympic Games in 1960, and has sent athletes to compete in every Summer Olympic Games since then, except when they participated in the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics. Morocco also boycotted the 1976 Games, withdrawing after having initially sent a delegation. In doing so, Morocco joined the boycott of the Games by most African countries, in protest against New Zealand's participation following an All Blacks rugby match, unrelated to the Olympics, against an apartheid team from South Africa. Only one Moroccan representative had time to compete before his country's
1980 South American Jaguars rugby union tour of South Africa 1980 South American Jaguars rugby union tour of South Africa The 1980 South American Jaguars rugby union tour of South Africa was a series of seven matches played by the South American Jaguars rugby union team in South Africa in April and May 1980. The South American team won the first four matches of the tour and lost the last three. The lost both tests of the two match series against the South Africa national rugby union team. The touring party was composed almost entirely of players from the Argentina national rugby union team and included all but one of