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1976 MONTREAL GAMES (SUMMER)
Bidding: Persistency paid off for Montreal, - which had lost seven Olympic bids, including a try for the 1932 Winter Games, awarded to Lake Placid, N.Y. Montreal beat Moscow and Los Angeles in International Olympic Committee voting in 1970 in Amsterdam - L.A. bowed out in the first round, then Montreal topped Moscow 41-28. Moscow and L.A. hosted the next two Summer Games, in 1980 and 1984.See the full content of this document
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Canada's History As Host
Participation: There were 92 countries, with 6,084 athletes - 4,824 men and 1,260 women. They competed in 198 events in 23 sports, including the inaugural women's competitions in basketball, rowing and team handball. Tanzania led a boycott of 22 African nations in protest of the New Zealand rugby team's tour of apartheid South Afr...
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