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Topic: Gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics


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  INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
The 1976 Montreal Games were marred by an African boycott to protest the fact that the national rugby team of New Zealand had toured South Africa and New Zealand was scheduled to compete in the Olympics.
Fourteen-year-old gymnast Nadia Comaneci of Romania caused a sensation when, for her performance on the uneven bars, she was awarded the first-ever perfect score of 10.0.
She was the first gymnast in Olympic history to be awarded the perfect score of 10.0.
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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Nikolai Andrianov
Gymnastics at the 1980 Summer Olympics was represented by 14 events: 6 for women and 8 for men.
The pommel horse is an artistic gymnastics apparatus.
The vault, formerly known as vaulting horse, is an artistic gymnastics apparatus.
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 Olympics and Gymnastics
Gymnastics is defined as exercises for the balanced development of the body, or the competitive sport derived from these exercises.
At the Olympics, her diminutive prettiness enthralled the Munich audience, and it was here that she became the first person ever to do a backward somersault off the uneven parallel bars.
Not only did she become the first gymnast at the Olympics Games to receive the perfect score of ten (a feat she managed seven times), she also won three gold medals; for individual all-around, the beam and the uneven bars; a silver medal in the team all-around, and a bronze for floor exercises.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Olympic medalists in Artistic Gymnastics (men)
Marian Dragulescu (born December 18, 1980) is a Romanian gymnast.
Valeri Goncharov (Ukrainian: Валерій Гончаров, Valeriy Goncharov) is a gymnast from Ukraine.
Gervasio Deferr (born 7 November 1980) is a gymnast from Barcelona, Spain.
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 GBROLYMPICS.COM / LONDON-OLYMPICS.COM - Olympic Games Medallists
The modern Olympics were first held in 1896.
Nevertheless all those competitions reported, at one time or another, as Olympic medal events have been included here for the record, with those no longer regarded as official footnoted.
Nationalities given are those of the countries the medallists were representing at the time of the event.
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 1976 Olympics — FactMonster.com
In 1970, when Montreal was named to host the Summer Olympics '76, organizers estimated it would cost $310 million to stage the Games.
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John Naber - John Naber Born: Jan. 20, 1956 Swimmer won 4 gold medals and a silver in 1976 Olympics.
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 Gymnastics from BBsports: Camp Gymnastics Summer
SUMMER CAMP GYMNASTICS The current format was first camp gymnastics summer achieved wide-scale success of the medalists of Points are split gymnastics summer camp between Juniors, girls summer camp gymnastics 16 and 2004 Olympics, in.
Rhythmic gymnastics is held camp gymnastics summer every Worlds and evolving popular after the Pommel Horse Men hold onto summer gymnastics camp as the team title at the aesthetic rather CAMP GYMNASTICS SUMMER than those at the famous Soviet gymnasts larger blocking surface.
Rhythmic gymnastics summer camp gymnastics is not summer camp gymnastics carry over to adhere to gymnastics camp summer strengthen the breakup of the 1987 Worlds.
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 Summer Olympics: Gymnastics
We always thought gymnastic was so easy but actually it's pretty hard, you always have to work hard and believe in yourself.
Gymnastics is a sport where you do handstands, back handsprings, front handsprings, and more.
Olympic Gymnastics has changed over the years but Men’s Artistic Gymnastics first became an Olympic sport in 1896 and Women's Artistic Gymnastics became an Olympic sport in 1928.
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 Nadia Comaneci - Definition, explanation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Nadia Elena Comaneci (originally Comăneci) (born November 12, 1961) is a Romanian-born gymnast, winner of five Olympic medals, and the first to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event.
Not only did she become the first gymnast at the Olympics to receive the perfect score of ten (which she repeated 6 more times), she also won three gold medals (individual all-around, balance beam and uneven bars), a silver medal (team all-around) and a bronze (floor exercise).
Comaneci is the Vice-Chair of the Board Of Directors of International Special Olympics, the Honorary President of Romanian Gymnastics Federation, the Honorary President of Romanian Olympics Committee, the Ambassador Of Sports Of Romania, a Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Muscular Dystrophy Association, and a Member of International Gymnastics Federation Foundation.
www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/n/na/nadia_comaneci.php   (1019 words)

  
 Olympics - EnchantedLearning.com
The Greeks held the first Olympic games in the year 776 BC (over 2700 years ago), and had only one event, a sprint (a short run that was called the "stade").
At the end of an Olympics, the mayor of the host-city presents the flag to the mayor of the next host-city.
For each Olympics, a new flame is started in the ancient Olympic stadium in Olympia, Elis, Greece, using a parabolic mirror to focus the rays of the Sun.
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 Summer Olympics. Team Canada Olympic Teams beijing 2008
Of the four medals Canada earned in the Mexico Summer Olympic Games in 1968, three were won by one swimmer.
Canada won 14 medals in the Sydney Summer Olympic Games in 2000 and 12 medals in the 2004 Athens summer Games, but had fewer athletes competing in 2004.
The next summer olympics will be in 2008 in Beijing.
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 1976 Olympics — Infoplease.com
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 Tsui Design & Research Inc. | Eugene Tsui
He was an intern architect at the age of nineteen and at twenty was the youngest member of the Organizing Committee of the 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics design team as the assistant to the Senior Coordinator.
Eugene Tsui was apprenticed to the renowned American architect, Bruce Goff, from 1976 until Goff's death in 1982.
In 1996,1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2002 he was awarded the Presidential Sports Award and is the current four-time Senior Olympics Gymnastics All-Around Champion.
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 1800-Olympics.com -- Summer Olympics: Olympic Sports: Equestrian
The Olympic three-day event is the complete equestrian test (including as it does the disciplines of dressage, cross-country and show jumping); an overall show of horsemanship, where men and women compete together and the star of the show is often the horse.
Dressage is a sort of dance on horseback, where the rider steers the horse to perform a series of intricate stepping manoeuvres.
At the Munich 1972 Olympics, Linsenhoff, also won the individual event, and added a silver medal in the team event.
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 Cape Cod Gymnastics Center - Gymnastics, tumbling, birthday parties, summer classes & camps, private lessons, and more ...
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For most competitive gymnasts, going to the Olympics is the biggest thing they could hope to achieve.
Cape Cod Gymnastics Center's Trak is 30' long.
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 1800-Olympics.com -- Online Guide to The Olympics -- Olympic Directory
The Olympic Museum, in Lausanne, has created a collection of unique objects which recount the story of the Olympic Movement and the Olympic Games.
There are currently 202 National Olympic Committees in the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) -- within the five continental associations.
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 Gymnastics results for the 1976 Summer Olympics
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