The 1976 Summer Olympics were held in the francophone metropolis of Canada. In the first installment of this series about Montreal’s quirky buildings, we covered the installations that were built for ...

The Olympic Flame for Montreal 1976 was "electronically" transmitted via satellite from Athens to Ottawa, by means of an electronic pulse derived from the actual burning flame. From Ottawa, it was ...

Anita DeFrantz was welcomed at her first Executive Board (EB) meeting as first vice-president on Wednesday by IOC president Thomas Bach. Caitlyn Jenner, who won the gold medal in Decathlon in the 1976 ...

EDITOR’S NOTE — With the Tokyo Olympics postponed for a year due to the coronavirus pandemic, The Associated Press is looking back at the history of Summer Games. This story was transmitted from ...

Queen Elizabeth II wore pink. Pink outfit, pink hat, pink handbag. Maggie Trudeau looked lovely in something that must have been inspired by the 1920s. Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa looked taut as a ...

Jean Drapeau’s legacy was tarnished by the financial disaster that was the 1976 Summer Olympics — the extravagant, trouble-plagued stadium, the considerable cost overruns, the rampant corruption. But ...

Montreal's Olympic urn will burn outside the stadium until the first of August. It's to mark the 25th anniversary of the Montreal Olympics. The flame was re-ignited at three o'clock in the presence of ...

SHANGHAI, CHINA - APRIL 15: Laureus World Sports Academy member Nadia Comaneci during a media interview at the Shanghai Grand Theatre prior to the 2015 Laureus World Sports Awards on April 15, 2015 in ...

The 1976 Montreal Olympics, which initially had a $300 million budget, ended up with a staggering $1.5 billion deficit, mainly due to poor planning and corruption. It saddled the Canadian city with a ...

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