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2. The Olympic Games in
1976 were celebrated in
Montreal, Quebec
(Canada) due to Canada
won the Host City
Selection of the Olympic
Games celebrated in 1970,
against the United States
and the Soviet Union.

3. All sovereign African nations and a few
other countries from elsewhere (in total 29
countries) boycotted the games in Montreal,
in reaction to the International Olympic
Committee's refusal to ban New Zealand,
whose rugby team had been touring South
Africa, a country that had been excluded
from many international sporting events due
to implementation of apartheid policy.

5.  Algeria  Madagascar
 Cameroon  Malawi
 Central African Republic  Mali
 Chad  Morocco
 People's Republic of the  Niger
Congo  Nigeria
 Egypt  Republic of China
 Ethiopia  Somalia
 Gabon  Sudan
 Gambia  Swaziland
 Ghana  Tanzania
 Guyana  Togo
 Iraq  Tunisia
 Kenya  Uganda
 Libya  Upper Volta
 Lesotho  Zambia

6. The Opening Ceremony
of the 1976 Summer
Olympic Games was held
on Saturday, on the 17th
of July, at the Olympic
Stadium in Montreal.
Elizabeth II was the
person that opened
these Olympic Games.

7. In this ceremony
there were a lot of
security (and in gneral,
in all the competitions
of these Olympic
Games) due to the
tragedy of the Olympic
Games of Münich of
1972. The curiosity of
this opening cremony
was that a naked man
run around the Olympic
Stadium.

10. In total, there were
92 countries and 6,028
athletes (between them
there were 1,260
women) that
participated in these
Olympic Games. These
countries were:

11. Note: into the brackets there are the athletes of each
country.
Andorra (3) Cameroon (4)
Antigua (9) Canada (391)
Argentina (70) Cayman Islands (4)
Australia (182) Chile (7)
Austria (60) Colombia (34)
Bahamas (10) Costa Rica (5)
Barbados (10) Côte d'Ivoire (8)
Belgium (106) Cuba (150)
Belize (4) Czechoslovakia (150)
Bermuda (22) Denmark (69)
Bolivia (4) Dominican Republic (11)
Brazil (81) Ecuador (5)
Bulgaria (160) Egypt (29)

12. Fiji (2)
Finland (89) Indonesia (7)
France (213) Iran (84)
East Germany (274) Ireland (46)
West Germany (289) Israel (26)
Great Britain (249) Italy (221)
Greece (37) Jamaica (20)
Guatemala (29) Japan (215)
Haiti (12) North Korea (41)
Honduras (3) South Korea (50)
Hong Kong (25) Kuwait (14)
Hungary (183) Lebanon (4)
Liechtenstein (6)
Iceland (14)
India (26)

13. Luxembourg (8) Paraguay (6)
Malaysia (23)
Mexico (99) Peru (13)
Monaco (10) Philippines (14)
Mongolia (33)
Morocco (9) Poland (224)
Nepal (1) Portugal (19)
Netherlands (103)
Netherlands Puerto Rico (81)
Antilles (4) Romania (157)
New Zealand (84)
Nicaragua (14) San Marino (10)
Norway (68) Saudi Arabia (19)
Pakistan (24) Senegal (23)
Panama (8) Singapore (4)
Papua New
Soviet Union (412)
Guinea (5)

14. Spain (115)
Saudi Arabia (19)
Senegal (23)
Singapore (4)
Soviet Union (412)
Spain (115)
Suriname (3)
Sweden (122)
Switzerland (54)
Thailand (43)
Trinidad and Tobago (12)
Tunisia (17)
Turkey (27)
United States (403)
Uruguay (9)
Venezuela (31)
Virgin Islands (18)
Yugoslavia (90)

15. Yellow square: city where the Olympic Games are
played
Blue: countries that played in the first time in the
Olympic Games
Green: countries that played more times in the Olympic
Games

16. This map shows the number of athletes of each country.

17. In these Olympic Games there were 198
events in 23 different sports:
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22. As the tradition says, the
journey of the olympic flame
started in Olimpia (Greece).
From there, people transported
the flame to Athens and later,
with a satellite signal, the fire of
the olympic flame was
transported to Ottawa. From
here, the olympic flame started a
tour that finished in the
Canadian city of Montreal the
day of the opening ceremony.

24. Spain was represented in these Olympic Games
of Montreal by a delegation of 114 athletes (103
men and 11 women) that participated in 13 sports:
Athletics
Boxing
Canoeing
Cycling
Diving
Equestrian
Football
Gymnastics
Hockey

25. Judo
Sailing
Shooting
Swimming
Weightlifting
Our country obtained, in total, two silver medals
(in canoeing and sailing).

26. Nadia Comaneci was the
most important athlete in these
Olympic Games. She was 14
years old when she
participated in the Olympic
Games of Montreal. She
competed in gymnastics.
Nadia was the first athlete in
to obtain a 10. Due to this
mark, she became the best
athlete in gymnastics of the
history.

27. The scoreboard shows “1” because it wasn´t
prepared to put “10”.

29. The mascot of
these Olympic Games
of Montreal was a
typical animal of
Canada, the beaver.
The name of this pet
was Amik. The comes
from the Indian
language and from a
region of Canada.

30. The Olympic
Games of Montreal in
1976 ended on the 1st
of August, in the
presence of the
President of the IOC
and Jules Léger,
Governor of Canada.
There was a show in
where people sang the
national anthems of
Canada and other
countries.

31. The President of the IOC
declared the closing of the
Games. The Olympic Flag
was lowered and eight
athletes carried the flag out
of the stadium.
The Olympic Flame went
out, signalling the end of
the Montréal Games.
Finally, the announcer
revealed the location of the
next Games: Moscow.