When Montrealers remember the 1976 Olympics, Olympic Stadium tends to swallow the frame. But the Games also left behind three purpose-built venues outside Olympic Park: the Complexe sportif Claude-Robillard, the Centre d’activités Étienne-Desmarteau, and the Olympic Basin. Fifty years later, their legacy is less monumental but more closely woven into the city’s everyday life.
Ahead of the 1976 Olympics, the City of Montreal had to come up with a range of venues that could accommodate the 21 different sports in which over 6,000 athletes would compete. Many of the nearly 200 events took place at other sites in and outside of Montreal. Football took place at stadiums as far away as Sherbrooke, Ottawa, and Toronto. Sailors travelled to Kingston, Ontario to compete at Portsmouth's Olympic Harbour.
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