The darling of the 1976 Olympics won five Olympic gold medals, all in individual events. She was only 14 when she became the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10.0 at the Olympics.

He won both a silver and a gold medal in the 1976 Summer Olympics. Fred Newhouse, a member of the United States 1976 gold medal winning 4×400 meter relay team, died on Jan. 20. He was 76.

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Legendary long-distance runner Jerome Drayton, who won the Boston Marathon in 1977 and held the Canadian men's marathon ...