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The 1976 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad, were held in 1976 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. In the bid to organise the Olympics, Montreal defeated Moscow and Los Angeles, which would organise the 1980 and 1984 Olympics.
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- In a protest to a tour of South Africa by the New Zealand rugbyThis article discusses the sport 'Rugby'. For other uses see Rugby''. General description Rugby football as a catch-all term, may refer to two related but separate team sports: Rugby League and Rugby Union. Rugby League has become a popular professional a team, TanzaniaThe United Republic of Tanzania Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania in Swahili) is a country on the east coast of central Africa. It is bordered by Kenya and Uganda on the north, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the west, and Zambia led a boycott of 22 AfricaAfrica is the world's second-largest continent in both area and population, after Asia. 30,244,050 km2 (11,677,240 mi2) including the islands, it covers 20. 3% of the total land area on Earth, and with over 800 million human inhabitants it accounts for arn nations as the IOCAlternative meanings at IOC (disambiguation The International Olympic Committee is an organization created by Pierre de Coubertin in 1894 to reinstate the Ancient Olympic Games held in Greece, and organize this sports event every four years. The IOC recei refused to bar the New Zealand team. Some of the nations had already participated however, as the teams only withdrew after the first day.
- Following the Munich massacre, high security was part of the scene for these games.
- The organisation of the Olympics turned out bad financially for Montreal, as the city remained faced with debts well after the Games had finished. The Olympic StadiumOlympic Stadium Stade Olympique The Big O Location Montreal, Quebec Opened July 17, 1976 (Olympics) April 15, 1977 (Baseball) Capacity 43,739 (Baseball)56,245 (Football) Owned By Regie des installations olympiques (Government of Quebec) Architect: Roger T, a daring design of French architect Roger Taillibert , remains a lasting monument to the huge deficit, as it never had an effective retractable roof, and the tower was only completed after the Olympics.
- The Olympic Flame was electronically transmitted from Athens to Ottawa. From there, it was carried by hand to Montreal. Following a rainstorm that doused the Olympic flame a few days after the opening of the games, an official relit the flame using his cigarette lighter. Organizers quickly doused it again and relit it using a backup of the original flame.
- 14-year-old Nadia Comaneci of Romania scored seven perfect 10s and won 3 gold medals in gymnastics.
- Viktor Saneyev ( Soviet Union) won his third consecutive triple jump gold medal, while Klaus Dibiasi of Italy did the same in the platform diving event.
- Alberto Juantorena of Cuba became the first man to win both the 400 m and 800 m at the same Olympics. Finland's Lasse Virén also achieved a double in the 5000 and 10000 m and finished 5th in the marathon, thereby failing to equal Emil Zátopek 1952 achievements.
- Boris Onischenko, a member of the Soviet Union's modern pentathlon team, was disqualified after he had rigged his épée to register a hit when there wasn't one.
- Women's events were introduced in basketball, handball and rowing.
- Five American boxers, including Sugar Ray Leonard, Leon Spinks, Michael Spinks, Leo Randolph and Howard Davis Jr. won gold medals in boxing. This has been often called the greatest Olympic boxing team the United States ever had, and, out of the five American gold medalists in boxing, all but Davis went on to become professional world champions.
- The Canadian field hockey team wins gold on goals scored by Arlo Grayson , Philip Nowicki , Adam Kerr , and Simon Tipler .
