Rugby union at the Summer Olympics one of its major advocates. In 1928 the IOC turned down a request to stage rugby at the Amsterdam games. An exhibition tournament was held at the 1936 Berlin Games, with France, Germany, Italy and Romania competing. In what was, to date, the last rugby match played at the Olympics, France beat Germany in the final 19 to 14. In 1976, 22 African countries and Guyana boycotted the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, after their demand to have New Zealand excluded was not met. A New Zealand rugby team had toured South Africa, which had been banned from the Olympics
1980 South American Jaguars rugby union tour of South Africa invited to play in this tour and against South Africa in two match played later during the springboks tour of South America The "South America Jaguars" was a "ghost" Argentine national team, not officially recognised by Union Argentina de Rugby, a "stratagem" to elude the prohibition of Argentine Government that since early '70s forbid any official relationship between any Argentine sport federation and South African and Rhodesian ones. This due the apartheid politics of the two African countries. This ostracism start in 1971 when the Argentine Government forbid to "Pumas" to play a match in Rhodesia during the tour in