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The following is a list of host cities of the Olympic Games, both summer and winter, since the modern Olympics began in 1896. Since then, summer and winter games have usually celebrated a four-year period known as an Olympiad. From the inaugural Winter Games in 1924 until 1992, winter and summer Games were held in the same year.
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 officially branded as Montreal 1976 (French: Montréal 1976), were an international multi-sport event held from July 17 to August 1, 1976, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
MTLOOC. v. t. e. For the 1976 Summer Olympics, a total of twenty-seven sports venues were used. Several venues used had been in existence before Montreal made its first Olympic bid in the late 1930s. By the 1950s, Montreal's bid for the Olympics shifted from Winter to Summer before it was finally awarded the 1976 Summer Games in 1970.
The following are lists of all Olympic venues, starting with the first modern Olympic Games in 1896, organized alphabetically, by sport, and by year.. As a multi-sport event, competitions held during a given Olympics usually take place in different venues located across the host city and its metropolitan area.
The Summer Olympic Games, also known as the Summer Olympics or Games of the Olympiad, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The inaugural Games took place in 1896 in Athens, Greece, and the most recent was held in 2024 in Paris, France.
The IOC mandated that the Winter Games be celebrated every four years in the same year as their summer counterpart. [47] This tradition was upheld through the 1992 Games in Albertville, France; after that, beginning with the 1994 Games, the Winter Olympics were held every four years, two years after each Summer Olympics. [29]: p. 405
United States at the1976 Summer Olympics. The United States competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. [1] 396 competitors, 278 men and 118 women, took part in 189 events in 19 sports. [2]
4:48.10 Becky Smith Canada: 4:50.48 4 × 100 m freestyle relay details United States (USA) Kim Peyton Jill Sterkel Shirley Babashoff Wendy Boglioli: 3:44.82 (WR) East Germany (GDR) Petra Priemer Kornelia Ender Claudia Hempel Andrea Pollack: 3:45.50 Canada (CAN) Becky Smith Gail Amundrud Barbara Clark Anne Jardin: 3:48.81 4 × 100 m medley relay ...