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The Times - A Beijing boycott won’t work
I resisted the pleas to boycott the Moscow Olympics in 1980. The same arguments apply today, by Colin Moynihan

The case at the time was clear to my team-mates and me. Despite the horrors of the Soviet invasion, it was wrong for the Government to ask sportsmen and women to make the sole sacrifice. Trade continued between the Soviet Union and the West; diplomatic relations stayed intact; cultural exchanges were unaffected; and anyone could walk down Piccadilly and buy a ticket on Aeroflot and spend their summer holiday in Leningrad. Only the athletes were being targeted and only the athletes would suffer.

Oh, bah.

Of course, when you say “suffer”, and consider what might fall under the definition of that word causing the boycott to begin with…