This was nearly 50 years ago, when Princess Anne - competing as an equestrian at the 1976 Montreal Olympics - went head over heels. Anne - who arrived in France this week for a 12-day stay ...

Princess Anne was the first of the British Royal Family to compete in the Olympics, at the 1976 Montreal Games. Known for her love of horses, she took her passion to the highest level and rode ...

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 ...

More than three decades later, men's basketball made its official Olympic debut at the 1936 Berlin Games. Women's basketball made its debut at the Games 40 years later, at the 1976 Montreal Olympics.

Bettmann/Getty At the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games, Nadia Comăneci became the first gymnast to earn a perfect score of 10.0 at the age of 14. The Romanian gymnast went on to win three gold medals ...