African states won new power when they demanded New Zealand withdraw because of their rugby tour of apartheid South Africa. The 1976 Olympics marked a turning point in Olympic history: it was the ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On July 18, 1976, at the Summer Olympics in Montreal, Nadia Comaneci of Romania became the first gymnast to receive a ...

Steve Gregg, a silver medalist at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, died on Sept. 11. He was 68 years old. Gregg also won silver medals in his signature event at the 1973 and 1978 World Championships and at ...

With the Paris Summer Olympics starting this week, one of the greatest runners in Nevada history is starting to regain her passion for the sport. Kathy Weston was newly out of Reno High School when ...

Nadia Comaneci is a renowned Romanian gymnast who rose to fame at the 1976 Montreal Olympics. She was only 14 years old when she made history by scoring the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics. She ...

It's a perfect choice for the Olympic Museum - as in a perfect 10.0. Gymnastics great Nadia Comaneci has donated the numbered bib she wore at the 1976 Montreal Games to the museum. The Romanian-born ...