Word: judo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even if these moves provoke wholesale defections among the boycotters, certain events in the Summer Games will surely suffer. The absence of Japan, West Germany and the U.S. will undermine the value of medals in men's gymnastics, men's track and field, basketball, swimming, judo, boxing, freestyle wrestling and women's volleyball. Boycotts by individual sports federations-yachtsmen from Great Britain and Australia, equestrians from France, Switzerland and Australia -will deprive those events of much of their competitive stature. There will probably be additional dropouts from the Olympics by individual athletes whose countries have decided...