Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Shekaru goma sha biyu bayan Wasannin da suka gabata, Wasannin Olympics na bazara na 1948, a London, sun jawo hankalin masu fafatawa daga kasashe 59, ciki har da 14 da suka fara gasar Olympics; kuma, ba a gayyaci Jamus ta shiga ba, haka ma Japan. Wasannin 1952, a Helsinki, sun sake kafa sabon matsayi, tare da kasashe 69 da suka halarci, ciki har da bayyanar farko ta Tarayyar Soviet da dawowar Jamus da Japan. Wasannin Olympics na lokacin rani na 1956, wanda kasashe 67 suka halarta a Melbourne, shi ne na farko da aka yi watsi da shi. Misira, Iraki, da Lebanon sun janye don magance rikicin Suez
, kuma Netherlands, Spain, da Switzerland sun janye a matsayin martani ga mamayewar Soviet na Hungary. Saboda ƙuntatawa na keɓewa na Australiya, an gudanar da wasannin hawan doki watanni biyar da suka gabata a Stockholm, tare da jimlar ƙasashe 29 da ke shiga, gami da ƙasashe biyar da ba su yi gasa a Melbourne ba.