The 1976 Montreal Olympics, which initially had a $300 million budget, ended up with a staggering $1.5 billion deficit, mainly due to poor planning and corruption. It saddled the Canadian city ...
Olympics are a good example of the dramatic ways in which international relations can shift over time. At that point, Canada was hosting the Olympics in Montreal. But there was a problem: Canada had a ...
A longtime administrator and official for USA Track & Field and the USOPC, he was the Team USA team leader at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. Newhouse was a Master Level official and served as an ...
Clarence Hill won a bronze medal at these games, the only medal ever won by a Bermudian. With this win he made Bermuda the smallest and least populous country to win a summer Olympic medal.
Newhouse's crowning achievement came at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, where he won a gold medal as part of the United States 4x400 meter relay team and a silver medal in the individual 400-meter event.
And struggle he did. From his 10th-place finish in the decathlon at the 1972 Games until the 1976 Olympics, he trained, on average, eight hours a day. At Montreal, amid the heat of the Cold War ...
The Montreal native relished the opportunity to return to the site of the 1976 Olympics that also served as the Impact’s home base for CCL play. The Impact defeated Liga MX side Santos Laguna in ...
World Athletics is deeply saddened to hear that Fred Newhouse, who earned Olympic 400m silver and 4x400m gold in 1976, died on Monday (20) at the age of 76. The US sprinter was one of the world’s ...