1986 Commonwealth Games
24 July – 2 August 1986, Edinburgh, Scotland
After nearly two decades successfully averting political
stay-away and protests because of apartheid and sanction-busting
sports tours to South Africa, the XIII Games, the
second to be staged at Edinburgh, was to become known
as “the Boycott Games”. Sadly, despite
there being so many fond memories of the Scottish
hospitality offered in 1970, 32 Commonwealth nations
decided that they could not attend, because of their
opposition to apartheid in sports.
Twenty-six nations did attend the second Edinburgh
Games and sent a total of 1,662 athletes and 461 officials.
Ten sports were featured at the second Edinburgh Games
– athletics, aquatics, badminton, boxing, cycling,
lawn bowls, rowing, shooting, weightlifting and wrestling.
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