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Games of the XXI Olympiad. Highlights certain participants of the 1976 Olympics at Montreal--some winners, some losers--before, during, and after their events in an effort to create an image of the total Olympic experience.
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Nov 5, 2014 · Re-live the first time both the Summer and Winter Games were brought together in the official Olympic film with classic highlights from Montreal and Innsbruck ...
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- The African Boycott
- Debuts and Firsts
- Memorable Champions
- Perfect Nadia
The 1976 Montreal Games were marred by an African boycott involving 22 countries. The boycott was organised by Tanzania to protest the fact that the New Zealand rugby team had toured Apartheid South Africa and that New Zealand was scheduled to compete in the Olympic Games.
Women’s events in basketball, rowing and team handball all made their Olympic debut. Hockey was played on an artificial pitch for the first time.
Alberto Juantorena of Cuba completed the first 400m and 800m double victory. The Japanese women’s volleyball team proved untouchable, winning all their matches in straight sets, and Miklos Németh of Hungary won the javelin to become the first son of an athletics gold medalist to win a gold of his own.
Fourteen-year-old gymnast Nadia Comaneci of Romania was the undoubted star of the Games. She shot to fame when, for her performance on the uneven bars, she was awarded the first-ever perfect score of 10.0. She went on to earn seven maximum marks in total.
The Games of the XXI Olympiad, from Montreal, Canada.
Watch Jean Beaudin's, Marcel Carrière's and Georges Dufaux's Official Film of the Montreal 1976 Olympic Games "Games of XXI Olympiad".
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Montreal 1976 Official Film | Games of XXI Olympiad. This is an unusual documentary in that it resists the temptation to exalt the winners. In the gymnastic competition, for example, neither Olga Korbut nor ... Show more.
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Aug 10, 2011 · In helping the 4x100m medley relay team win bronze, 13-year-old Robin Corsiglia set the mark as Canada’s youngest ever Olympic medallist. Steps were taken towards gender equality as women’s events in basketball, rowing and handball were added to the Olympic program.
