Talk:1976 Summer Olympics

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"The Olympic Flame was electronically transmitted from Athens to Ottawa." - How the BLEEP did they do that, or get away with the claim that they were doing it? It makes no SENSE. My puny research skills aren't up to it but this bit of PR gibberish bugs me.

Indeed, it seems pretty irresponsible to me to glibly make such a claim and not explain it. A tiny bit of research revealed something about pulses by satellite, which I have added. I agree with your assessment of PR gibberish, but hey, it was the 70s. Jeeves 14:27, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 Fix was in 2 Pierre Trudeau 3 Boycott 4 Demonstration sports 5 Boycott clarification needed

[edit] Fix was in

Nadia got 7 perfect 10s, it turns out, because the Sovs conspired to push the individual scores higher, so they'd win the team title. Trekphiler 17:57, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Source? — Jonel | Speak 18:33, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Pierre Trudeau

Please do NOT remove information that Pierre Trudeau was from Montreal. He was the prime minister during the Olympics and he was from the host city of the Olympics. SNIyer12 18:37, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

What did he have to do with the Olympics? -- Jonel | Speak 13:33, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

That's stupid. Are you going to document every national leader from a host city in every Olympics article? 132.205.44.134 22:55, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Boycott

Information from the IOC bulletin Olympic Review contradicts to the information in this article (the source of which is BBC - see the 2nd external link) - e.g. Mali boycotted the Games, etc. However, I have no idea, how this could be corrected. Cmapm 11:10, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

As I read that IOC bulletin and the BBC report, the BBC says 26 countries (25 African) and lists 23. The IOC lists 29. We list 26. Discrepancies are -

1. Cameroon - WP and IOC, not BBC
2. Guyana - WP and IOC, not BBC
3. Mali - IOC, not WP and BBC
4. Mauritius - WP and BBC, not IOC

   IOC does not list in the participating NOC section. Had not previously competed.

5. Morocco - WP and IOC, not BBC
6. Swaziland - IOC, not WP and BBC
7. Tunisia - IOC, not WP and BBC
8. Zaire - IOC, not WP and BBC

   IOC lists this as non-political, so not a boycott.

My recommendation would be to add Mali, Swaziland, and Tunisia to the list of boycotting countries. Add a note that Zaire did not compete, but claimed financial causes rather than political. Remove Mauritius from the list. Source it all to the IOC document. -- Jonel | Speak 13:31, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for clarifying this. I agree with you, introduced changes proposed here into the article and removed tags. If someone will object to this, feel free to say it here. Cmapm 14:05, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

A couple of countries were listed as both competing and in the boycott - Nigeria, Kenya and Ethiopia. I have removed Nigeria & Kenya and will list Ethiopia at the 1976 Summer Olympics for deletion since it did not participate. -- Astrokey44|talk 14:09, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Heh, didn't even think to check that. Good work. -- Jonel | Speak 04:40, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Made this map from the info from the IOC bulletin just to try and figure this out - the blue countries did not officially withdraw, but did not compete either -- Astrokey44|talk 09:47, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Demonstration sports

Apparently, the organizing committee for the 1976 games allowed for the demonstration sports of lacrosse and water skiing, but the IOC decided not to have them on the programme. [Reference here]. I have no idea where to put this tidbit of info. Highlights? Medals awarded?

The "Medals awarded" section, which probably should have its name changed to "Sports", is typically where such things go. As a side note, I think it's unfortunate that demonstration sports aren't held any more. As another side note, great work! -- Jonel | Speak 00:11, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

• Yeah, I agree that that section should be changed to "Sports". It appears that many Olympic game pages have "medals awarded" instead of "sports". Anyway, yeah, I think it's too bad that there aren't any demonstartion sports anymore. It was a great way for countries to showcase a sport that was popular within the host country. I can understand it though. The Olympics have gotten huge and they needed to cut down on costs. As far as that reference goes, you can access all the official reports from all the Olympic games till the 2002 Olympics here: http://www.aafla.org/5va/reports_frmst.htm

• • It says "medals awarded" on many of them because a lot have exactly that much information on the links in the section. I've been working on putting more in (see esp. 1908 Summer Olympics and its sports pages). AAFLA (both official reports and the other documents they have), Herman's Full Olympians, and Bill Mallon's books have been my primary sources for early Olympics. I recommend them all. -- Jonel | Speak 02:03, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

That site has all the information you could ever want on the Olympics and I think should be incorperated in ALL the wikipedia entries.

[edit] Boycott clarification needed

I find the information about the boycott difficult to understand. Can someone please clarify? Why did some African nations boycott? --geekyßroad^{. meow?} 06:58, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

• Earlier in 1976 the All Blacks toured South Africa in breach of a Commonwealth agreement which prohibited sporting links with South Africa. The boycotting nations were protesting New Zealand's violation of Gleneagles. Lisiate 00:07, 1 September 2006 (UTC)