Apartheid-era South Africa and the Olympics

South Africa did not compete at Olympic Games from 1964 to 1988, as a part of the sporting boycott of South Africa during the apartheid era. The South African National Olympic Committee (NOC) was expelled from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1970. In 1991, as part of the transition to multiracial equality, South Africa was re-admitted to the IOC, and competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics held in Barcelona.

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