WI The 1936 Summer Olympics were boycotted

SaucePlease

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I forgot to mention, the POD can't be before 1931. That way you can't have Barcelona, Spain take the Summer Olympics away from Nazi Germany.
 
https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005680

According to this website "Movements to boycott the 1936 Berlin Olympics surfaced in the United States, Great Britain, France, Sweden, Czechoslovakia, and the Netherlands. "

If these countries didn't go, what would change besides no famous Jesse Owens.
Does the Commonwealth follow Britain? If so, those nations can literally put on their own Olympics, there's not like a lot of countries fielding teams at that time in history (or even in existence on the map, you're taking out about 1/4th the world's population at the time?), without those nations and if they do put forth a competing last minute venue, I'd imagine much of Latin America would follow, though some Nazi supporting nations and individuals from those nations would go independently.

In the end what changes in world history? Nothing other than trivia night questions and pop culture references about Hitler being the first thing aliens may see and hear when our broadcasts reach them, which probably isn't even true anyways.
 

SaucePlease

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Does the Commonwealth follow Britain? If so, those nations can literally put on their own Olympics, there's not like a lot of countries fielding teams at that time in history (or even in existence on the map, you're taking out about 1/4th the world's population at the time?), without those nations and if they do put forth a competing last minute venue, I'd imagine much of Latin America would follow, though some Nazi supporting nations and individuals from those nations would go independently.

In the end what changes in world history? Nothing other than trivia night questions and pop culture references about Hitler being the first thing aliens may see and hear when our broadcasts reach them, which probably isn't even true anyways.

Well if most of the world comes out against the nazis in 1936, that could affect the Munich Agreement.


Also, if an alternative international games does come up around this time, the Olympics today might not be as big or popular due to competition.
 
Well if most of the world comes out against the nazis in 1936, that could affect the Munich Agreement.


Also, if an alternative international games does come up around this time, the Olympics today might not be as big or popular due to competition.
Do you really think that boycotting Olympic games achieves anything? Did anything happen to the US when the communist nations boycotted in 1980? Or when the US boycotted the Moscow games?
 
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