Friendship Games

The 1984 Friendship Games, or Friendship-84 (Russian: Дружба-84, Druzhba-84), was an international multi-sport event held between 2 July and 16 September 1984 in the Soviet Union and eight other socialist states which boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

This article is about the sporting event held in 1984. For the sporting event planned to be held in 2024, see 2024 World Friendship Games. For the 2015 film, see My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Friendship Games.

1984 Friendship Games
Friendship Games logo
MottoSport, Friendship, Peace
PurposeFor athletes from countries of the "people's democracy"
and (substitution of the 1984 Summer Olympics unofficially)

Although Friendship Games officials denied that the Games were a counter-Olympic event to avoid conflicts with the International Olympic Committee, the competition was often dubbed the Eastern Bloc's "alternative Olympics". Some fifty states took part in the competition. While the boycotting countries were represented by their strongest athletes, other states sent their reserve teams, consisting of athletes who failed to qualify for the games in Los Angeles.

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