I think you'd get very little traction in terms of national boycotts. There are lots of nations out there that don't give a fig for homosexual rights. I doubt China, the United States and others would do a boycott. You might get Canada, its not like the government in place has been anti-homosexual.
In effect I do think that a boycott would have to come at an individual athlete or a group athlete level.
The question though is, would a athlete possibly give up an olympic career and a life time of training and dreaming for this issue, that's asking a lot.
As it stands very few nations have a lot of influence in Russia right now, Putin is intent on a resurgent strong superpower status for that country and its apparent that he doesn't care about the opinions and protests of other nations (Snowden affair, Syria, mass arctic military excercises, massive military build up).
I doubt you'll see a boycott like the LA Olympics and the Moscow Olympics ever happen unless Putin orders all gays to be gassed.
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