Most Canadians favour boycotting next year's Beijing Olympics, poll finds

By Mario Canseco | April 1, 2021, 6:00am ilbusca/E+/Getty Images Plus Olympic games are particularly memorable events for children, even if the festivities are held half a world away and, as will be the case during this year's summer edition, without fans arriving from foreign countries to cheer their athletes on. The two Summer Olympics that took place after I began to understand sports were abnormal. The United States boycotted the Moscow 1980 games to protest the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. Canada was one of 65 countries that left athletes at home. Four years later, the tables turned, as…