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Innsbruck 1976
The Olympic Games, or Olympics, are an international multi-sport event taking place every four years which comprises of summer and winter games. Though the first ancient games were held in 776 B.C, the modern games started from 1896.The unity of the 5 continents is shown on the Olympic flag by five colorful intertwined rings of red, blue, green, yellow, and black, created by Baron Pierre de Coubertin to represent atleast one color of the participating country’s national flag.
Innsbruck 1976 opening ceremony on 04 February 1976 and Closing date on 15 February 1976. Innsbruck 1976 Olympics included 37 Nations, 1,123 athletes with 231 women, 892 men, and 37 events and arranged in the country of the host city Austria for 1976. Candidate cities were Denver, Sion, Tampere/Are, and Vancouver, Canada. In these Olympic sports contains Bobsleigh, Ice Hockey, Skating, Skiing, Biathlon, and Luge.
Innsbruck 1976 official opening of the Games by: President Dr. Rudolf Kirschschlager, Lighting the Olympic Flame by Two cauldrons were lit as a symbol of Winter Games being held twice in Innsbruck. The cauldron of 1964 was lit by Christl Haas and the 1976 flame was ignited by Josef Feistmantl. The 1976 Winter Olympics were awarded to the U.S. city of Denver, but the people of the state of Colorado voted to prohibit public funds from being used to support the Games. Innsbruck stepped in and hosted the Games only 12 years after its last Olympics. Rosi Mittermaier won two of the three Alpine skiing events and almost became the first woman to sweep all three events.
The ice hockey team from the USSR, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics won its fourth straight gold medal. A new figure skating event, ice dancing, was added to the programme and, like the pairs, it was dominated by Russian couples. The most memorable image of the Games was Franz Klammer flying wildly down the downhill course, barely keeping control, on his way to a gold medal.
John Curry's style emphasized grace and artistic expression over athleticism. In the course of the Games, he supplemented his natural elegance with dynamic jumps. The judges awarded him the highest points total in the history of men's figure skating. In that Innsbruck 1976 year USSR achieved good position with hard working. They got 13, 6, 8 medals respectively Gold, Silver, Bronze in that specific year.
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