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1976 Winter Olympics

1976 Winter Olympics
NameXII Olympic Winter Games
Size150
Optional CaptionThe emblem represents the coat of arms of Innsbruck, which shows the bridge on the Inn River that connects the old town and the Hötting district. The bridge and the Olympic rings symbolize the link that ties the many peoples of the world with friendship through the Olympic Games. The top of the coat of arms has two indents which match two of the Olympic rings and represent the 1964 and 1976 Winter Games which Innsbruck celebrates.
Host CityInnsbruck, Austria
Nations Participating37
Athletes Participating1123
(892 men, 231 women)
Events37 in 6 sports
Opening CeremonyFebruary 4, 1976
Closing CeremonyFebruary 15, 1976
Officially Opened ByPresident Rudolf Kirchschläger
Athlete's OathWerner Delle-Karth
Judge's OathWilly Köstinger
Olympic TorchChristl Haas and Josef Feistmantl
StadiumBergisel

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The 1976 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XII Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated February 4 � 15, 1976 in Innsbruck, Austria. It was the second time the Tyrolean city hosted the Games.

Following the Munich Massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics, security was tight for the 1976 games.

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Most researchers believe the Coneheads made their first appearance on Saturday Night Live. Finally, the truth can be told. They first came emerged at the Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, and they originally spoke German!
3.37 min. | 4.0 user rating		 Rick Wakeman´s soundtrack. About the movie: www.imdb.com Director:Tony Maylam Writer:Tony Maylam (writer) song:Searching for gold About the soundtrack: rwcc.com winter olympics 1976
9.90 min. | 4.83 user rating		 A great allround skier, Othmar Schneider's greatest success came at the 1952 Olympics, where he won the slalom and placed second. He might have won a third medal in the combined, but that event had been discontinued after 1948 and replaced by the giant slalom. It was held as a World Championship event in subsequent Olympics, but not in Oslo. While not managing to win any additional medals in international championships (Schneider ranked fourth in the 1954 World Championship giant slalom), he did win various honours in major races in Europe and North America. In 1951, he won the famous Arlberg-Kandahar slalom (held in Sestriere that year), while winning the Wengen downhill and combined two years in a row (1951-1952). After the 1956 Winter Olympics, Schneider switched to the pros, competing in two Professional World Championships. In the meanwhile, he switched focus to a second sport, pistol shooting. A 34-fold Austrian champion (17 individual titles), he won a World Championships team bronze in the free pistol (1974) and a European Championship team bronze in the center-fire pistol (1975). A third Olympic appearance in the sport was impossible because of Schneider's past, having been a pro and a skiing teacher in the US and Chile. Schneider, who was course manager at the 1966 World Championships in Chile, later managed his own hotel in Lech, and owned and managed Huber, a manufacturor of skiing apparel and accessories.
0.83 min. | 5.0 user rating		 Soviet Union (Red Army) vs Czechoslovakia 1976 Winter Olympics (Gold Medal) Valeri Kharlamov & Vladislav Tretiak :) :) :) :) ~ Mainly for Educational purposes of the history of Hockey :) I don't own this video!!
7.02 min. | 5.0 user rating		 Irina RODNINA - Alexander ZAITSEV (RUS) / 1976 Innsbruck Olympics / Ex / Music - "Kalinka-Malinka"
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Lyudmila PAKHOMOVA - Alexander GORSHKOV (RUS) / 1976 Innsbruck Olympics / Ex / Music -- Tango "La Cumparsita"
3.65 min. | 5.0 user rating		 1976 Innsbruck Olympics / Ex / Music - Scheherazade
3.78 min. | 5.0 user rating		 null 1924 Chamonix 1928 St Moritz 1932 Lake Placid 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1948 St Moritz 1952 Oslo 1960 Squaw Valley 1964 Innsbruck 1968 Grenoble 1972 Sapporo 1976 Innsbruck 1980 Lake Placid 1984 Sarajevo 1988 Calgary 1992 Albertville 1994 Lillehammer 1998 Nagano 2002 Salt Lake City 2006 Torino 2010 Vancouver 2014 Sochi Alpine Skiing Biathlon Bobsleigh Cross-Country Skiing Curling Freestyle Skiing Ice Hockey Luge Short Track Skeleton Snowboard Irina Sluzkaja | Kimmie Meissner | Miki AndÅ Tara Lipinski | Michelle Kwan | Maria Butyrskaja | Michelle Kwan |Irina Sluzkaja | Shizuka Arakawa Katarina Witt Midori Ito | Jill Trenary | Kristi Yamaguchi | Oksana Bajul | YÅ«ka SatÅ Carol Heiss | Sjoukje Dijkstra | Petra Burka | Peggy Fleming |
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0.87 min. | 4.2 user rating		 Host Gareth Wheeler is joined by former world figure skating champion Toller Cranston to discuss the men's competition at the 2010 Olympics and the problem with judging the sport.
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Preceded by
Sapporo		Winter Olympics
Innsbruck
XII Olympic Winter Games (1976)		Succeeded by
Lake Placid

IOC voting
City Country Round 1 Round 2 Round 3
Denver United States 29 29 39
Sion Switzerland 18 31 30
Tampere Finland 12 8 -
Vancouver Canada 9   - -


1 URS 13 6 8 27
2 GDR 7 5 7 19
3 US 3 3 1 7
4 NO 3 3 1 7
5 FRG 2 5 3 10
6 FI 2 4 1 7
7 AT 2 2 2 6
8 CH 1 3 1 5
9 NL 1 2 3 6
10 IT 1 2 1 4

Events at the 1976 Winter Olympics (Innsbruck)

Alpine skiing * Biathlon * Bobsleigh * Cross‑country skiing * Figure skating * Ice hockey * Luge * Nordic combined * Ski jumping * Speed skating



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