1976
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1976
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Updated: 2006-08-25 16:33
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The 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal were held without the participation
of 28 African countries, which boycotted the Games after an unsuccessful
bid to bar New Zealand from competing in them.
The countries had sought New Zealand's exclusion because its rugby team
had played in South Africa, a nation whose apartheid policies the
countries were opposed to. Of the 92 nations that did compete, the Soviet
Union earned the most medals, winning a total of 125. The United States
came in second with 94.
Two memorable Olympic firsts took place in Montreal. In boxing,
super-heavyweight fighter Clarence Hill's third-place finish made his
tiny, island nation of Bermuda the least populous ever to medal at a
Summer Olympics. In gymnastics, Romania's Nadia Comaneci became the first
gymnast in the history of the Games to receive a perfect score-she was
only 14 years old.
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