Montreal 1976 - Olympic Games Winners

Start:

17 Jul 1976

End:

01 Aug 1976

Countries:

Athletes:

6084

Sports:

Events:

198

City:

Montreal, Canada (Kingstone - Sailing)

There were three candidate cities to hold the Olympic Games in 1976: Montreal, Canada, and the two other competitors from the world's most significant countries - Los Angeles, USA and Moscow, USSR.
In May 1970, at the Congress IOC in Amsterdam, after the speech of Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau, the Games of the 21 Olympiad were awarded to Montreal.
After Munich 1972, Lord Michael Killanin was elected as the new President of the IOC.

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II officially opened the Olympic games 1976. The Olympic Stadium was still under construction at the Opening ceremony because of bad management and corruption.
More than 20 African nations boycotted the Games because New Zealand's rugby team toured South Africa and played against them, and IOC did not exclude New Zealand from the Olympics 1976.
Also, athletes from Taiwan stayed home because Canada refused to recognize Taiwan as an independent nation.
In gymnastics, Nadia COMANECI from Romania made Olympic history - seven perfect 10.0s awarded her for her performance.