Championship right here ^

I watched it with some Statham fans, both male and female, and by 45 min in the most exciting thing was seeing which one of us could bitch about it the loudest.

I can't even use my drill to hang a shelf. But I can make a mean coq au vin.

I. Just. Can't. What in hell?

My city hosted the 2001 World Championships in Athletics, and as University athletes we got to act as "tour guides" for the famous former athletes who were there as VIP. Bruce Jenner was one of them. He was a friendly, charming person, as were most all of the athletes in attendance. We were all awestruck by these…

I was pretty young at the time, but I loved Nadia Comanici! Thank you for this very wonderfully written history.

My father always said that those of us who came of age post-Cold War couldn't really understand what the Olympics was.

No one knew it at the time, but Montreal would also be the last Olympics to feature both the United States and Soviet Union competing against each other until Seoul in 1988. In 1980, the US boycotted the Moscow games over the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and in 1984, the USSR boycotted the LA games to get back at…

Also worth noting about the '76 games is that the two following summer games (80 & 84) were boycotted by the US (80) & USSR(84)

Nadia, Nadia, Nadia. The forever queen of my heart.

1) Guinness tastes good.

It's not as much fun as John Belushi's Little Chocolate Donuts ad, but here's Bruce advertising Wheaties back in the day.

Budweiser: Like sex in a canoe

Harder because they have to stop and do push ups and chest bumps every couple minutes to make sure their still manly and tough.

That's a ridiculous statement.

It seems to have coincided with the rise of video games.

His gold medal will certainly be changed. It is now a gold medal for East Germany.

It seems totally bizarre that a decathlete was ever such a famous figure. Decathletes have to hate that Dan v. Dave Reebok campaign in 1992 for destroying people's interest in their event.

That name escaped me, thanks for the reminder. Funny how it was the '76 Olympics where all the women were subjected to sex tests to determine if they were "truly" women, except for one woman, Princess Anne, whose mother, the Queen, was on hand to open the games in Montreal.

You're forgetting Dr. Renee Richards, who underwent sex reassignment surgery in the 70s and was denied entrance to the 1976 US Open tennis tournament, where the USTA cited its 'women born women' policy. She really is a pioneer: