1976 Summer Olympics

Multi-sport event in Montreal, Canada

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Emblem of the 1976 Summer Olympics

Host city| Montreal, Canada
Nations| 92
Athletes| 6,084 (4,824 men, 1,260 women)
Events| 198 in 21 sports (27 disciplines)
Opening| July 17, 1976
Closing| August 1, 1976
Opened by|

Queen Elizabeth II[1]

Cauldron|

Stéphane Préfontaine
Sandra Henderson[1]

Stadium| Olympic Stadium

Summer

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Winter

<- Innsbruck 1976

Lake Placid 1980 ->

1976 Summer Paralympics

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The 1976 Summer Olympics (French: Jeux olympiques d'été de 1976), officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad (French: Jeux de la XXIe Olympiade) and commonly known as Montreal 1976 (French: Montréal 1976; Ojibwe: Mooniyaang 1976; Mohawk: Tiohtià꞉ke 1976), were an international multi-sport event held from July 17 to August 1, 1976 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Montreal was awarded the rights to the 1976 Games at the 69th IOC Session in Amsterdam on May 12, 1970, over the bids of Moscow and Los Angeles. It was the first and, so far, only Summer Olympic Games to be held in Canada. Toronto hosted the 1976 Summer Paralympics the same year as the Montreal Olympics, which still remains the only Summer Paralympics to be held in Canada. Calgary and Vancouver later hosted the Winter Olympic Games in 1988 and 2010, respectively.

Twenty-nine countries, mostly African, boycotted the Montreal Games when the International Olympic Committee (IOC) refused to ban New Zealand, after the New Zealand national rugby union team had toured South Africa earlier in 1976 in defiance of the United Nations' calls for a sporting embargo. The Soviet Union won the most gold- and overall medals.

## Contents

* 1 Host city selection
* 2 Organization
* 3 Cost and cost overrun
* 4 Opening ceremony
* 5 Highlights
* 6 Venues
* 6.1 Montreal Olympic Park
* 6.2 Venues in Greater Montreal
* 6.3 Venues outside Montreal
* 7 Sports
* 8 Participating National Olympic Committees
* 9 Calendar
* 10 Medal count
* 11 Non-participating National Olympic Committees
* 11.1 Republic of China boycott
* 12 Doping
* 13 Television coverage
* 14 Legacy
* 15 See also
* 16 Further reading
* 17 Explanatory notes
* 18 Citations
* 19 References
* 20 External links

## Host city selection[edit | edit source]

The vote occurred at the 69th IOC Session in Amsterdam, Netherlands on May 12, 1970. While Los Angeles and Moscow were viewed as the favourites, given that they represented the world's two main powers, many of the smaller countries supported Montreal as an underdog and as a relatively neutral site for the games. Los Angeles was eliminated after the first round, and Montreal won in the second round. Moscow and Los Angeles would go on to host the 1980 and 1984 Summer Olympics, respectively, marred by political boycotts (for instance, the U.S.-led boycott of Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979). One blank vote was cast in the second and final round.[2][3][4]

Toronto had made its third attempt for the Olympics, but failed to win the support of the Canadian Olympic Committee, who selected Montreal instead.[5]

1976 Summer Olympics bidding results[4]

City  | Country  | Round 1 | Round 2
Montreal |  Canada | 25 | 41
Moscow |  Soviet Union | 28 | 28
Los Angeles |  United States | 17 | —

## Organization[edit | edit source]

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Robert Bourassa, then the Premier of Quebec, asked Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau to advise Canada's monarch Elizabeth II to attend the opening of the games. However, Bourassa later became unsettled about how unpopular the move might be with sovereigntists in the province, annoying Trudeau, who had already made arrangements.[6] René Lévesque, the leader of the Parti Québécois at the time, sent his own letter to Buckingham Palace, asking the Queen to refuse her prime minister's request, but she did not oblige Lévesque as he was out of his jurisdiction in offering advice to the Sovereign.[7]

In 1976, Trudeau, succumbing to pressure from the People's Republic of China, issued an order barring Taiwan from participating as China in the 1976 Montreal Olympics, although it was technically a matter for the IOC.[8] His action strained relations with the United States – from President Ford to future President Carter and the press.[9][8] Trudeau's action was widely condemned as having brought shame on Canada for having succumbed to political pressure to keep the Chinese delegation from competing under its name.[10]

## Cost and cost overrun[edit | edit source]

The Oxford Olympics Study estimates the outturn cost of the Montreal 1976 Summer Olympics at USD 6.1 billion in 2015-dollars and cost overrun at 720% in real terms.[11] This includes sports-related costs only, that is, (i) operational costs incurred by the organizing committee for the purpose of staging the Games, e.g., expenditures for technology, transportation, workforce, administration, security, catering, ceremonies, and medical services, and (ii) direct capital costs incurred by the host city and country or private investors to build, e.g., the competition venues, the Olympic village, international broadcast centre, and media and press centre, which are required to host the Games. Indirect capital costs are not included, such as for road, rail, or airport infrastructure, or for hotel upgrades or other business investment incurred in preparation for the Games but not directly related to staging the Games. The cost overrun for Montreal 1976 is the highest cost overrun on record for any Olympics. The cost and cost overrun for Montreal 1976 compares with costs of USD 4.6 billion and a cost overrun of 51% for Rio 2016 and USD 15 billion and 76% for London 2012. Average cost for the Summer Games from 1960 to 2016 is USD 5.2 billion in 2015-dollars, average cost overrun is 176%.

Much of the cost overruns were caused by the Conseil des métiers de la construction union, whose leader was André "Dede" Desjardins, and who kept the construction site in "anarchic disorder" as part of a shakedown.[12] French architect Roger Taillibert, who designed the Olympic stadium, recounted in his 2000 book Notre Cher Stade Olympique that he and Montreal mayor Jean Drapeau tried hard to buy off Desjardins, even taking him to a lunch at the exclusive Ritz-Carlton hotel in a vain attempt to end the "delays".[12] Ultimately Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa made some sort of secret deal to buy off Desjardins, which finally allowed work to proceed.[12] Taillibert wrote in Notre Cher Stade Olympique "If the Olympic Games took place, it was thanks to Dede Desjardins. What irony!"[12]

## Opening ceremony[edit | edit source]

External video

1976 Montreal Olympic Opening Ceremony

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File:Stephane Prefontaine, Sandra Henderson 1976b.jpg

Préfontaine and Henderson lighting the Olympic Flame

The opening ceremony of the 1976 Summer Olympic Games was held at the Olympic Stadium in Montreal, Quebec on Saturday, July 17, 1976, in front of an audience of some 73,000 in the stadium and an estimated half billion watching on television.[13]

File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-R0716-0111, Montreal, XXI. Olympiade, Cierpinski, Reimann, Stadtmüller.jpg

East German athletes Waldemar Cierpinski, Hans-Georg Reimann and Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller at the Olympic Village

Following an air show by the Canadian Forces Air Command's Snowbirds aerobatic flight demonstration squadron in the sunny skies above the stadium, the ceremony officially began at 3:00 pm with a trumpet fanfare and the arrival of Elizabeth II, as Queen of Canada.[14] The Queen was accompanied by Michael Morris, Lord Killanin, President of the International Olympic Committee, and was greeted to an orchestral rendition of 'O Canada', an arrangement that would be used for many years in schools across the country, as well as in the daily sign-off of TV broadcasts in the country.[15]

The queen entered the Royal Box with her consort, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and her son, Prince Andrew. (Her daughter, Princess Anne, was an equestrian competitor for the team from Great Britain. Prince Philip was also president of the International Equestrian Federation (FEI) at the time of the 1976 Summer Olympics.) She joined a number of Canadian and Olympic dignitaries, including: Jules Léger, Governor General of Canada, and his wife, Gabrielle; Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and wife, Margaret; Robert Bourassa, Premier of the Province of Quebec; Roger Rousseau, chief of the Montreal Olympic Organizing Committee (COJO); Sheila Dunlop, Lady Killanin, wife of the IOC President; Mayor of Montreal, Jean Drapeau, and his wife, Marie-Claire.

The parade of athletes began moments later with the arrival of the Greek team, and concluded with the entrance of the Canadian team. All other teams entered the stadium according to French alphabetical order. The ceremony was marked by the adorning of Israel's flag with a black mourning ribbon, in memory of the eleven athletes and coaches killed by Palestinian terrorists at the previous Summer Olympic Games in Munich four years earlier. Although most would eventually boycott the Games in the days to follow, a number of African delegations did march in the parade. Much of the music performed for the parade was arranged by Vic Vogel and was inspired by late Quebec composer André Mathieu.[16]

Immediately following the parade, a troupe of 80 women dancers dressed in white (representing the 80th anniversary of the revival of the Olympic Games) performed a brief dance in the outline of the Olympic rings. Following that came the official speeches, first by Roger Rousseau, head of the Montreal Olympic organizing committee, and Lord Killanin. Her Majesty was then invited to proclaim the Games open, which she did, first in French, then in English.

Accompanied by the Olympic Hymn, the Olympic flag was carried into the stadium and hoisted at the west end of the stadium. The flag was carried by eight men and hoisted by four women, representing the ten provinces and two territories (at the time) of Canada. As the flag was hoisted, an all-male choir performed an a cappella version of the Olympic Hymn.

Once the flag was unfurled, a troupe of Bavarian dancers representing Munich, host of the previous Summer Olympics, entered the stadium with the Antwerp flag. Following a brief dance, that flag was then passed from the Mayor of Munich to the IOC President and then to the Mayor of Montreal. Next came a presentation of traditional Québécois folk dancers. The two troupes merged in dance together to the strains of "Vive le Compagnie" and exited the stadium with the Antwerp Flag, which would be displayed at Montreal City Hall until the opening of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. Three cannons were then fired, as the 80-member troupe of female dancers unfolded special crates that released doves and ribbons in the five Olympic colours.

Another trumpet fanfare announced the arrival of the Olympic Flame. The torch was carried by 15-year-olds Stéphane Préfontaine and Sandra Henderson, chosen as representatives of the unity within Canada's linguistic heritage. This would also be the first time two people would light the Olympic flame, and Henderson would become only the second woman to do the honours. The duo would make a lap of the stadium and then climbed a staircase on a special dais at the centre of the stadium to set the Olympic flame alight in a temporary white aluminum cauldron. The flame was later transported to a more permanent cauldron just outside the running track to burn throughout the duration of the Games. A choir then performed the Olympic Cantata as onlookers admired the Olympic flame.

The "Youth of Canada" took to the track to perform a colourful choreographed segment with flags, ribbons and a variety of rhythmic gymnast performers. The flag bearers of each team then circled around the speaker's dais as Pierre St-Jean recited the Athletes' Oath and Maurice Forget recited the Judges' Oath, in English and in French, with right hand over the heart and the Canadian flag clutched in the left. Finally, a choral performance of "O Canada" in both French and English marked the close of the opening ceremony, as the announcers concluded with a declaration of 'Vive les Jeux de Montreal! Long Live the Montreal Games'.

The Montreal ceremony would be the last of its kind, as future Olympic ceremonies, beginning with the 1980 Moscow Games, would become more focused on theatrical, cultural and artistic presentations and less on formality and protocol.

## Highlights[edit | edit source]

* These Olympics were the first of two summer games to be organized under the IOC presidency of Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin.
* Taro Aso was a member of the Japanese shooting team. 32 years later, he would be elected as the Prime Minister of Japan.
* The Games were opened by Elizabeth II, as head of state of Canada, and several members of the Royal Family attended the opening ceremonies. This was particularly significant, as these were the first Olympic games hosted on Canadian soil. The Queen's daughter, Princess Anne, also competed in the games as part of the British riding team. Additionally, the Queen's husband, Prince Philip, was President of the International Equestrian Federation (FEI) at the time.
* After a rainstorm doused the Olympic Flame a few days after the games had opened, an official relit the flame using his cigarette lighter. Organizers quickly doused it again and relit it using a backup of the original flame.
* The Israeli team walked into the stadium at the opening ceremony wearing black ribbons in commemoration of the 1972 Munich massacre.[17]
* Women's events were introduced in basketball, handball, and rowing.[18]
* Canada, the host country, finished with five silver and six bronze medals. This was the first time that the host country of the Summer Games had not won any gold medals. This feat had occurred previously only in the Winter Games – 1924 in Chamonix, France, and 1928 in St. Moritz, Switzerland. This later occurred at the 1984 Winter Games in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, and again at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
* Because of the Munich massacre, security at these games was visible, as it had been earlier in the year at the Winter Games in Innsbruck, Austria.
* At age 14, gymnast Nadia Comăneci of Romania became the first person to score a perfect 10 at the Olympics, recording seven 10.00 scores and winning three gold medals, including the all-around. The scoreboard could hold only 3 digits and the score was shown as 1.00.
* 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 repeated his 1972 double win in the 5,000 and 10,000 m runs, the first runner to successfully defend a 5,000 m win (since equalled by Britain's Mo Farah in 2016). Virén finished 5th in the marathon, thereby failing to equal Emil Zátopek's 1952 achievements.
* Hasely Crawford won Trinidad and Tobago's first Olympic gold medal by finishing first in the 100 meter dash.
* Viktor Saneyev of the Soviet Union won his third consecutive triple jump gold medal, while Klaus Dibiasi of Italy did the same in the platform diving event.
* Boris Onishchenko, a member of the Soviet Union's modern pentathlon team, was disqualified after it was discovered that he had rigged his épée to register a hit when there wasn't one. Because of this, the Soviet modern pentathlon team was disqualified. Due to his disqualification, it was suggested that he earned the nickname of "Boris DISonish-chenko". However, many assumed that he was a victim of a Soviet "win it all" mentality.[19]
* Five American boxers – 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.
* Princess Anne of the United Kingdom was the only female competitor not to have to submit to a sex test.[20] She was a member of her country's equestrian team.
* Japanese gymnast Shun Fujimoto performed on a broken right knee, and helped the Japanese team win the gold medal for the team championship. Fujimoto broke his leg on the floor exercise, and due to the closeness in the overall standings with the USSR, he hid the extent of the injury. With a broken knee, Fujimoto was able to complete his event on the rings, performing a perfect triple somersault dismount, maintaining perfect posture. He scored a 9.7 thus securing gold for Japan. Years later, when asked if he would do it again, he stated bluntly "No, I would not."[21]
* The U.S. men's swimming team won all but one gold medal. John Naber won four gold medals and a silver medal.
* The East German women's swimming team won all but two gold medals. Kornelia Ender won four gold medals and a silver medal.
* In winning the gold medal for the men's 100m freestyle, Jim Montgomery became the first person to break the 50 second mark in the event, taking first place in the final in a time of 49.99.
* For the first time ever, a woman won an Olympic medal in shooting: Margaret Murdock caught the silver in the three positions event. Lanny Bassham and Murdock tied for the first place, but Murdock was placed second after review of the targets. Bassham suggested that two gold medals be given, and after this request was declined, asked Murdock to share the top step with him at the award ceremony. Women had no separate shooting events at the time and were allowed to compete with men. Murdock became the first woman to win an Olympic medal in shooting.[22]
* Luann Ryon won the women's Archery gold for the United States; Ryon had never before competed at the international level.
* Caitlyn Jenner[a] won the gold medal for decathlon, setting a world record of 8,634 points.
* Greg Louganis won the silver medal for the 10m Platform event in Men's Diving at 16 years old.[23]
* Alex Oakley, the Canadian race walker, became the oldest track and field athlete to compete at the Olympic Games. He was aged 50, and taking part in his fifth Olympics.
* The New Zealand men's national field hockey team beat Australia to win gold, becoming the first non-Asian/European team to win the gold medal in hockey. It is also the first Olympic games in which hockey was played on artificial turf.
* The Polish men's volleyball team came back from being down 2 sets against the USSR to win the gold medal.
* Twenty-year-old Morehouse College student Edwin Moses sets a new world record in the 400m hurdles, less than a year after taking up the event. He is also America's only male individual track gold medalist.
* Thomas Bach of West Germany won a gold medal in the team foil event in fencing. He would later become IOC President.
* Heavyweight boxer Clarence Hill won a bronze medal for Bermuda. His accomplishment makes Bermuda the smallest nation in terms of population to win an Olympic medal at the Summer Olympics.[24]
* East Germany surpassed all expectations for a middle-sized nation by finishing with the second most gold medals in total. The East German women's swimming team won all but two gold medals. Swimmer Kornelia Ender won four gold medals and a silver medal. However, the GDR's achievements were later fundamentally undermined by the exposure of a serious and systematic scheme of doping by the East German sporting authorities.[25] It was later revealed that after injecting athletes with performance-boosting drugs at the Montreal Olympics, East German officials dumped the leftover serum and syringes in the Saint Lawrence River.[26]

## Venues[edit | edit source]

Main article: Venues of the 1976 Summer Olympics

The Olympic Village in January 2008.

### Montreal Olympic Park[edit | edit source]

Main article: Olympic Park, Montreal

* Olympic Stadium – opening/closing ceremonies, athletics, football (final), equestrian (jumping team final)
* Olympic Pool – diving, modern pentathlon (swimming), swimming, water polo (final)
* Olympic Velodrome – cycling (track), judo
* Montreal Botanical Garden – athletics (20 km walk), modern pentathlon (running)
* Maurice Richard Arena – boxing, wrestling (freestyle finals)
* Centre Pierre Charbonneau – wrestling
* Olympic Village – athletes' residence

### Venues in Greater Montreal[edit | edit source]

* Olympic Basin, Île Notre-Dame – canoeing, rowing
* Claude Robillard Centre – handball, water polo
* Centre Étienne Desmarteau – basketball
* St. Michel Arena – weightlifting
* Paul Sauvé Centre – volleyball
* Montreal Forum – basketball (finals), boxing (finals), gymnastics, handball (finals), volleyball (finals)
* Mount Royal Park – cycling (individual road race)
* Quebec Autoroute 40 – cycling (road team time trial)
* Streets of Montreal – athletics (marathon)
* Winter Stadium, Université de Montréal – fencing, modern pentathlon (fencing)
* Molson Stadium, McGill University – field hockey

### Venues outside Montreal[edit | edit source]

* Olympic Shooting Range, L'Acadie – modern pentathlon (shooting), shooting
* Olympic Archery Field, Joliette – archery
* Olympic Equestrian Centre, Bromont – equestrian (all but jumping team), modern pentathlon (riding)
* Pavilion de l'éducation physique et des sports de l'Université Laval, Quebec City, Quebec – handball preliminaries
* Sherbrooke Stadium, Sherbrooke, Quebec – football preliminaries
* Sherbrooke Sports Palace, Sherbrooke, Quebec – handball preliminaries
* Portsmouth Olympic Harbour, Kingston, Ontario – sailing
* Varsity Stadium, Toronto, Ontario – football preliminaries
* Lansdowne Park, Ottawa, Ontario – football preliminaries

## Sports[edit | edit source]

File:MontrealOlympicTowerAndBiodome1.jpg

Velodrome (foreground) and Olympic Stadium (its tower completed after the Games), Montreal

There was a desire by the IOC's program commission to reduce the number of competitors and a number of recommendations were put to the IOC's executive board on February 23, 1973, which were all accepted. Rowing was the only sport where the number of competitors was increased, and women were admitted for the first time in Olympic history. The 1976 Summer Olympic program featured 196 events with 198 medal ceremonies in the following 21 sports:[27]

* Aquatics
* Diving (4)
* Swimming (26)
* Water polo (1)
* Archery (2)
* Athletics (37)
* Basketball (2)
* Boxing (11)
* Canoeing (11)
* Cycling
* Road (2)
* Track (4)
* Equestrian
* Dressage (2)
* Eventing (2)
* Show jumping (2)
* Fencing (8)
* Football (1)
* Gymnastics (14)
* Handball (2)
* Field hockey (1)
* File:Judo pictogram.svg Judo (6)
* Modern pentathlon (2)
* Rowing (14)
* Sailing (6)
* Shooting (7)
* Volleyball (2)
* Weightlifting (9)
* Wrestling
* Freestyle (10)
* Greco-Roman (10)

## Participating National Olympic Committees[edit | edit source]

File:1976 Summer Olympic games countries.png

Participating nations

Number of athletes

Four nations made their first Summer Olympic appearance in Montreal: Andorra (which had its overall Olympic debut a few months before in Innsbruck Winter Olympics), Antigua and Barbuda (as Antigua), Cayman Islands, and Papua New Guinea.

Numbers in parentheses indicate the number of athletes from each nation that competed at the Games.

Participating National Olympic Committees

* File:Flag of Andorra (civil).svg Andorra (3)
* Antigua and Barbuda (9)
* Argentina (70)
* Australia (182)
* Austria (60)
* Bahamas (10)
* Barbados (10)
* Belgium (106)
* Belize (4)
* File:Flag of Bermuda (1910–1999).svg Bermuda (22)
* Bolivia (4)
* File:Flag of Brazil (1968-1992).svg Brazil (81)
* File:Flag of Bulgaria (1971-1990).svg Bulgaria (160)
* Cameroon (4)[WD]
* Canada (391) (host)
* Cayman Islands (4)
* Chile (7)
* Colombia (34)
* Costa Rica (5)
* Cuba (150)
* File:Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg Czechoslovakia (150)
* Denmark (69)
* Dominican Republic (11)
* File:Flag of Ecuador (1900–2009).svg Ecuador (5)
* File:Flag of Egypt (1972-1984).svg Egypt (29)[WD]
* Fiji (2)
* Finland (89)
* France (213)
* East Germany (274)
* West Germany (289)
* Great Britain (249)
* File:Flag of Greece (1828-1978).svg Greece (37)
* Guatemala (29)
* Guyana[Note]
* File:Flag of Haiti (1964–1986).svg Haiti (12)
* File:Flag of Honduras (before 2022).svg Honduras (3)
* Hong Kong (25)
* Hungary (183)
* Iceland (14)
* India (26)
* Indonesia (7)
* File:State Flag of Iran (1964-1980).svg Iran (84)
* Ireland (46)
* Israel (26)
* Italy (221)
* Ivory Coast (8)
* Jamaica (20)
* Japan (215)
* File:Flag of North Korea (1948–1992).svg North Korea (41)
* File:Flag of South Korea (1949-1984).png South Korea (50)
* Kuwait (14)
* Lebanon (4)
* File:Flag of Liechtenstein (1937–1982).svg Liechtenstein (6)
* File:Flag of Luxembourg.svg Luxembourg (8)
* Malaysia (23)
* Mexico (99)
* Mali[Note]
* Monaco (10)
* File:Flag of the People's Republic of Mongolia (1940-1992).svg Mongolia (33)
* Morocco (9)[WD]
* Nepal (1)
* Netherlands (103)
* File:Flag of the Netherlands Antilles (1959–1986).svg Netherlands Antilles (4)
* New Zealand (84)
* Nicaragua (14)
* Norway (68)
* Pakistan (24)
* Panama (8)
* Papua New Guinea (5)
* Paraguay (6)
* Peru (13)
* Philippines (14)
* Poland (224)
* Portugal (19)
* File:Flag of Puerto Rico (1952-1995).svg Puerto Rico (81)
* Romania (157)
* San Marino (10)
* Saudi Arabia (19)
* Senegal (23)
* Singapore (4)
* Soviet Union (412)
* Spain (115)
* Suriname (3)
* Sweden (122)
* Switzerland (54)
* Swaziland[Note]
* Thailand (43)
* Trinidad and Tobago (12)
* Tunisia (17)[WD]
* Turkey (27)
* United States (396)
* Uruguay (9)
* Venezuela (31)
* Virgin Islands (18)
* Yugoslavia (90)

^ WD: Athletes from Cameroon, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia competed on July 18–20 before these nations withdrew from the Games.
^ Note: Athletes from Guyana, Mali and Swaziland also took part in the Opening Ceremony, but later joined the Congolese-led boycott and withdrew from all competitions.

## Calendar[edit | edit source]

All times are in Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4)
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## Medal count[edit | edit source]

These are the top ten nations that won medals at the 1976 Games. Canada placed 27th with only 11 medals in total, none of them being gold. Canada remains the only host nation of a Summer Olympics that did not win at least one gold medal in its own games. It also did not win any gold medals at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary. However, Canada went on to win the most gold medals at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

The Games were dominated by the Soviet Bloc, with the USSR and its satellites occupying seven out of top ten places in the medal standings.

Further information: 1976 Summer Olympics medal table

Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  Soviet Union| 49| 41| 35| 125
2|  East Germany| 40| 25| 25| 90
3|  United States| 34| 35| 25| 94
4|  West Germany| 10| 12| 17| 39
5|  Japan| 9| 6| 10| 25
6|  Poland| 7| 6| 13| 26
7| File:Flag of Bulgaria (1971-1990).svg Bulgaria| 6| 9| 7| 22
8|  Cuba| 6| 4| 3| 13
9|  Romania| 4| 9| 14| 27
10|  Hungary| 4| 5| 13| 22
Totals (10 entries)| 169| 152| 162| 483

## Non-participating National Olympic Committees[edit | edit source]

Twenty-nine countries boycotted the Games[28][29] due to the refusal of the IOC to ban New Zealand, after the New Zealand national rugby union team had toured South Africa earlier in 1976.[30] The boycott was led by Congolese official Jean-Claude Ganga. Some of the boycotting nations (including Morocco, Cameroon and Egypt) had already participated, however, and withdrew after the first few days. Senegal and Ivory Coast were the only African countries that competed throughout the duration of the Games. Elsewhere, Burma, Iraq and Guyana also opted to join the Congolese-led boycott. South Africa had been banned from the Olympics since 1964 due to its apartheid policies. Other countries, such as El Salvador and Zaire, did not participate in Montreal for purely economic reasons.[28]

File:1976 Summer Olympics (Montréal) boycotting countries (blue).png

Countries boycotting the 1976 Games are shaded blue

### Republic of China boycott[edit | edit source]

An unrelated boycott of the Montreal Games was the main issue between the Republic of China (ROC) and the People's Republic of China (PRC). The ROC team withdrew from the games when Canada's Liberal government under Pierre Trudeau told it that the name "Republic of China" was not permissible at the Games because Canada had officially recognized the PRC in 1970.[31] Canada attempted a compromise by allowing the ROC the continued use of its national flag and anthem in the Montreal Olympic activities; the ROC refused. In 1979 the IOC established in the Nagoya Resolution that the PRC agreed to participate in IOC activities if the Republic of China was referred to as "Chinese Taipei". Another boycott would occur before the ROC would accept the provisions of the 1979 Resolution although the reason that so many other countries boycotted were not all the same as the ROC.

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* File:Flag of Afghanistan (1973–1974).svg Afghanistan
* File:Flag of Albania (1946–1992).svg Albania
* Algeria
* File:Flag of Benin (1975-1990).svg Benin
* File:Flag of Myanmar (1974–2010).svg Burma
* Cameroon
* Central African Republic
* Chad
* Congo
* File:Flag of Egypt (1972-1984).svg Egypt
* El Salvador
* File:Flag of Ethiopia (1975–1987).svg Ethiopia
* Gabon
* Gambia
* Ghana
* Guyana
* Iraq
* Kenya
* File:Flag of Lesotho (1966–1987).svg Lesotho
* File:Flag of Libya (1972–1977).svg Libya
* Madagascar
* Malawi
* Mali
* Morocco
* Niger
* Nigeria
* Republic of China
* Somalia
* Sri Lanka
* Sudan
* Swaziland
* File:Flag of Syria (1972-1980).svg Syria
* Tanzania
* Togo
* Tunisia
* Uganda
* File:Flag of Upper Volta.svg Upper Volta
* File:Flag of Zaire (1971–1997).svg Zaire
* Zambia

## Doping[edit | edit source]

East Germany encouraged and covered up a culture of doping across many sports for decades, and GDR doping was present at the 1976 Montreal Olympics.[32] Doping of West German athletes, too, was prevalent at the Games.[33]

## Television coverage[edit | edit source]

ABC Sports paid US$25-million for television broadcast rights in the United States, and produced 76.5 hours of coverage.[34]

CBC Sports budgeted less than CAD$2-million and produced 169 hours of coverage, compared to 14 hours of programming at the 1972 Summer Olympics. The network expanded its coverage when convinced there would be increased media interest from Canadians. When the network was criticized for spending taxpayer dollars, executive producer Bob Moir toured the country to explain the project and boasted that, "the biggest team in Montreal will be the CBC team... It will be bigger than the Canadian Olympic team".[34] CBC Sports had 245 people on its crew, and aired from 9 am until 11 pm daily, taking breaks only for newscasts. Ted Reynolds and Lloyd Robertson co-hosted coverage of the opening ceremonies. In 1976, CBC Sports began its practice of talking live with athletes immediately after events, and built a studio for the interviews.[34]

## Legacy[edit | edit source]

The legacy of the Montreal Olympics is complex. Many citizens regard the Olympiad as a financial disaster for the city as it faced debts for 30 years after the Games had finished. The retractable roof of the Olympic Stadium never properly worked and on several occasions has torn, prompting the stadium to be closed for extended periods of time for repairs. The failure of the Montreal Expos baseball club is largely blamed on the failure of the Olympic Stadium to transition into an effective and popular venue for the club – given the massive capacity of the stadium, it often looked unimpressive even with regular crowds in excess of 20,000 spectators.

The Quebec provincial government took over construction when it became evident in 1975 that work had fallen far behind schedule. Work was still ongoing just weeks before the opening date, and the tower was not built. Mayor Jean Drapeau had confidently predicted in 1970 that "the Olympics can no more have a deficit than a man can have a baby", but the debt racked up to a billion dollars that the Quebec government mandated the city pay in full. This would prompt cartoonist Aislin to draw a pregnant Drapeau on the telephone saying, "Allo, Morgentaler?" in reference to a Montreal abortion provider.[35]

File:OlympicStadium.jpg

Olympic Stadium, seen next to the Montreal Botanical Garden.

The Olympic Stadium was designed by French architect Roger Taillibert. It is often nicknamed "The Big O" as a reference to both its name and to the doughnut-shape of the permanent component of the stadium's roof, though "The Big Owe" has been used to reference the astronomical cost of the stadium and the 1976 Olympics as a whole. It has never had an effective retractable roof, and the tower (called the Montreal Tower) was completed only after the Olympic Games were over. In December 2006 the stadium's costs were finally paid in full.[36] The total expenditure (including repairs, renovations, construction, interest, and inflation) amounted to C$1.61 billion. Today the stadium lacks a permanent tenant, as the Montreal Alouettes and Montreal Expos have moved, though it does host some individual games of the Alouettes as well as CF Montréal (formerly the Montreal Impact).

One of the streets surrounding the Olympic Stadium was renamed to honour Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the Olympics.

The boycott by African nations over the inclusion of New Zealand, whose rugby team had played in South Africa that year, was a contributing factor in the massive protests and civil disobedience that occurred during the 1981 Springbok Tour of New Zealand. Official sporting contacts between South Africa and New Zealand did not occur again until after the fall of apartheid.

Australia's failure to win a gold medal led the country to create the Australian Institute of Sport.[37]

In 2016, the 40th anniversary celebrations were held. In conjunction with the celebrations, the 2016 Quebec Games were held.[38]

The games were the subject of Games of the XXI Olympiad (Jeux de la XXIe olympiade), a 1977 documentary film by Jean Beaudin, Marcel Carrière, Georges Dufaux and Jean-Claude Labrecque.[39]

## See also[edit | edit source]

* 1976 Summer Paralympics
* 1976 Winter Paralympics
* 1976 Winter Olympics
* Olympic Games celebrated in Canada
* 1976 Summer Olympics - Montreal
* 1988 Winter Olympics - Calgary
* 2010 Winter Olympics - Vancouver
* Olympic Games with significant boycotts
* 1976 Summer Olympics - Montreal - African boycott
* 1980 Summer Olympics - Moscow - United States-led boycott
* 1984 Summer Olympics - Los Angeles - Soviet-led boycott
* List of IOC country codes
* Use of performance-enhancing drugs in the Olympic Games — 1976 Montreal
* Corridart

## Further reading[edit | edit source]

* Paul Charles Howell. The Montreal Olympics: An Insider's View of Organizing a Self-Financing Games (2009)
* National Film Board of Canada, Games of the XXI Olympiad (118 minute film), Jacques Bobet, producer (may not be available outside Canada).

## Explanatory notes[edit | edit source]

1. ^ Then known as Bruce Jenner.

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17. ^ Video on YouTube
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19. ^ "Onischenko pushes the button and oversteps boundaries for fencing glory". Olympic Channel. Archived from the original on February 7, 2018.
20. ^ This has often been reported as fact as early as 1977, but never verified by the Olympics authorities. For example, see Young, Dick (1977). THE BARBIE DOLL SOAP OPERA. New York Daily News. reprinted in Best Sports Stories 1977. p. 47\. ISBN 9780525066231. Retrieved July 25, 2012. "I have it on the strongest authority that Princess Anne did not have to submit to a sex test to compete in the Olympic Equestrian events."
21. ^ "Fujimoto caps Japanese success", BBC, September 29, 2000
22. ^ "Shooting at the 1976 Montreal Summer Games: Mixed Small-Bore Rifle, Three Positions, 50 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020. Retrieved February 7, 2020.
23. ^ Gregory Louganis' Athlete Profile at Olympics.com, the IOC website https://olympics.com/en/athletes/gregory-louganis
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36. ^ CBC News (December 19, 2006). "Quebec's Big Owe stadium debt is over". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved October 21, 2008.
37. ^ Titus O'Reily (August 20, 2018). A Thoroughly Unhelpful History of Australian Sport. Penguin Books. pp. 34–36. ISBN 9780143793519.
38. ^ Matthew Grillo (July 12, 2016). "Nadia Comaneci to watch Jeux du Québec and attend Montreal Olympics anniversary". Global News. Global.ca.
39. ^ Martin Malina, "Olympic film premieres here". Montreal Star, April 22, 1977.

## References[edit | edit source]

* Proulx, Daniel; Mollitt, J. James (1969). Chantigny, Louis (ed.). The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the Games of the XXI Olympiad (PDF). Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Organizing Committee of the Games of the XXI Olympiad.

* Volume 1 Part 1 (up to page 279)
* Volume 1 Part 1 (from page 280)
* Volume 2
* Volume 3

## External links[edit | edit source]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1976 Summer Olympics.

* "Montreal 1976". Olympics.com. International Olympic Committee.
* 1976: African countries boycott Olympics
* Official site by senior members of the Montreal Games Organizing Committee
* "NFB gives viewers a look into the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal". Montreal Gazette. July 12, 2016. Retrieved July 13, 2016.

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* Biathlon Canada
* Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton
* Basketball
* Canadian Blind Sport Association
* Canadian Canoe Association
* Canadian Cerebral Palsy Sports Association
* Curling Canada
* Cycling Canada Cyclisme
* Canadian Fencing Federation
* Canadian Freestyle Ski Association
* Canadian Interuniversity Sport
* Canadian Lacrosse Association
* Canadian Luge Association
* Canadian Olympic Committee
* Canadian Orienteering Federation
* Canadian Paralympic Committee
* Canada Rugby League
* Canadian Snowboard Federation
* Canadian Soccer Association
* Canadian Wheelchair Basketball Association
* Canadian Wheelchair Sports Association
* Canadian Yachting Association
* Cricket Canada
* Cross Country Canada
* (Canadian Hockey League)
* Diving
* Equine Canada
* Federation of Canadian Archers
* Field Hockey Canada
* Floorball Canada
* Golf Canada
* Hockey Canada
* Judo Canada
* Karate Canada
* Nordic Combined Ski Canada
* Quidditch Canada
* Rowing Canada
* Rugby Canada
* Minister of State (Sport)
* Ski Jumping Canada
* Skate Canada
* Shooting Federation of Canada
* Speed Skating Canada
* Sport Canada
* Squash Canada
* Swimming Natation Canada
* Synchro
* Table Tennis Canada
* Tennis Canada
* Volleyball Canada
* Water Polo

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* Western Canada Summer Games
* ParticipACTION
* List of stadiums in Canada
* List of Canada Games

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1975–1990|

* 1975 World Series (1975–76)
* 1976 Summer Olympics (1976–77)
* Heavyweight championship boxing match between Muhammad Ali and Leon Spinks (1977–78)
* Super Bowl XIII (1978–79)
* 1980 Winter Olympics (1979–80)
* 1981 Kentucky Derby (1980–81)
* 1982 NCAA men's basketball national championship (1981–82)
* 1982 World Series (1982–83)
* Not awarded (1983–84)
* 1984 Summer Olympics (1984–85)
* Not awarded (1985–86)
* 1987 Daytona 500 (1986–87)
* 1987 Kentucky Derby (1987–88)
* 1988 Summer Olympics (1988)
* 1989 Indianapolis 500 (1989)
* 1990 Indianapolis 500 (1990)

1991–2009|

* 1991 NBA Finals (1991)
* 1992 Breeders Cup (1992)
* 1993 World Series (1993)
* 1994 Stanley Cup Finals (1994)
* Cal Ripken Jr.'s 2,131st consecutive game (1995)
* 1996 World Series (1996)
* 1997 NBA Finals (1997)
* Mark McGwire's 62nd home run (1998)
* 1999 Major League Baseball All-Star Game (1999)
* 2000 World Series (2000)
* 2001 World Series (2001)
* 2002 Winter Olympics (2002)
* 2003 Major League Baseball postseason (2003)
* 2004 Masters Tournament (2004)
* 2005 Open Championship (2005)
* 2006 Major League Baseball postseason (2006)
* 2007 Fiesta Bowl (2007)
* 2008 U.S. Open Golf Championship (2008)
* Super Bowl XLIII (2009)

2010–present|

* 2010 FIFA World Cup Final (2010)
* 2011 World Series (2011)
* Super Bowl XLVI (2012)
* 2013 World Series (2013)
* Super Bowl XLIX (2014)
* Super Bowl 50 (2015)
* 2016 World Series (2016)
* Army–Navy Game (2017)
* 2018 World Series (2018)
* 2019 Masters Tournament (2019)
* 2020 NBA All-Star Game (2020)
* MLB at Field of Dreams (2021)

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