KINE 3440 Lecture 11: Lecture 11, Montreal 1976 Summer Olympics, February 27th
6 Mar 2018
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Fanny blankers koon was selected by the ioc as the best female athlete in the rst. Carl lewis was selected as the best male athlete of the rst 100 years of the olympics. After the 1972 munich games, with the murder of the 11 athletes, security was put in place. Lord killanin is now the president of the ioc. Jean drapeau was the one that brought the games to montreal. One of the main reasons that montreal was left in debt was because the companies saw this as an opportunity to make money and went on strikes demanding more money. The measurements roger made were in metric system, and montreal was imperial, so a lot mistakes were made during the conversions. Taiwan: canada signed the one china pact, so pierre trudeau had to stop taiwan from competing because they were trying to compete under the name of republic of. China in 1976 new zealand made a mistake before the olympics.
