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Nov 3, 2026
RoshaHOST
This is Roshai.
RoshaHOST
An Olympic medalist could have retired, raised a family and watched their children grow up before Montreal finished paying for the games.
RoshaHOST
In 1976, Montreal hosted the Summer Olympics.
RoshaHOST
The city built sports venues and infrastructure to welcome the world for just over two weeks.
RoshaHOST
The debt lasted 30 years.
RoshaHOST
It was finally paid off in 2006.
RoshaHOST
For spectators, the Olympics ended at the closing ceremony.
RoshaHOST
For the people responsible for the bill, the financial commitment was still running decades later.
James SmithHOST
And even then, I wouldn't have been cut out for it because early in my life, I was willing to do anything to become an athlete apart from give up drinking and go out all the time.
Sam DutneyGUEST
That's, look, maybe, maybe 40 years ago, that might've still been fine for rowing, but I think, uh, so my headmaster was, was, uh, the stroke of the Australian men's aid at the 1976 Olympics.
Sam DutneyGUEST
And I remember him telling us that when they got off the water, they'd have a warm beer, cuz at that point they thought that was gonna help with hydration.
Sam DutneyGUEST
And because it was warm, it was gonna be body wouldn't have to spend calories to like heat it up to match the temperature of the rest of the body and all this kind of stuff.
John ShannonHOST
I did.
John ShannonHOST
The first time I saw you on television was during the 1976 Montreal Olympics.
Jeff RimerGUEST
Okay.
John ShannonHOST
You were doing, I want to say, I could be wrong, you were doing weightlifting.
Tristin HopperGUEST
And for similar reasons.
Tristin HopperGUEST
He thought he could, he thought the separatist option, so the Peltier Québécois, which had just been founded, everybody was feeling real good about Canada after the 1976 Olympics.
Tristin HopperGUEST
And he's like, you know what? I don't think people are feeling that separatist.
Tristin HopperGUEST
Let's just hold an early election, crush those damn separatists, and let's just keep this Quebec Liberal government going until 1980.
Gad SaadGUEST
And the irony is that in 1976, we had already emigrated to Montreal.
Gad SaadGUEST
The summer Olympics that year were happening in Montreal, the 1976 summer Olympics.
Gad SaadGUEST
So he had come from France and he ended up representing Lebanon in the 1976 Montreal Olympics.
Gad SaadGUEST
So the same guy who had to leave Lebanon because he suffered from the terminal disease of being Jewish, we could forgive him being Jewish as long as he can carry the Lebanese flag.
Cam MitchellSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I think it was probably not recognised at the time but Arch was a pioneer in also supporting female athletes and he did a great job of really mentoring and bringing through younger female athletes as well.
Sarah BradleyHOST
Jelly's most famous result was coaching John Walker to a 1500m gold at the 1976 Montreal Olympics.
Sarah BradleyHOST
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Sarah BradleyHOST
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H. Robert JohnGUEST
And so the idea was, How could you possibly get a plane down without being detected? And I thought back, I spent some time in Montreal and one time went to the Olympic village and it got me thinking about the East Germans.
H. Robert JohnGUEST
The East Germans had fabulous success in the 1976 Olympics in Montreal and nobody could figure out why or how.
H. Robert JohnGUEST
Well, their secret is actually the secret to Squawk 7700.
H. Robert JohnGUEST
And their mechanism of success is tied in with what makes, I think, the book very interesting.
Nick CanepaGUEST
I can remember when...
Nick CanepaGUEST
The 1976 Olympics.
Nick CanepaGUEST
I'm working the desk that morning.
Nick CanepaGUEST
But the desk, we'd go in because it was the Tribune.
Simon TeslerHOST
That opening sequence of the radio being tuned gives us a few snippets from three earlier Bebop Deluxe tracks, as well as a few of the things Nelson missed.
Simon TeslerHOST
via sound clips from the 1976 Montreal Olympics, of the much-loved radio DJ John Peel, and of comedians Tony Hancock and Sid James on Hancock's Half Hour.
Simon TeslerHOST
But for Bill Nelson then, and also for virtually everyone else in the age before the internet, The formative musical influence for us all was what we heard on the radio.
Simon TeslerHOST
And of course, that's the dominant theme of the Velvet Underground's track Rock and Roll, written by Lou Reed shortly before he quit the band to launch a solo career.
Alex LovelessHOST
I can't tell you what it was a venue of because I didn't write those down.
Alex LovelessHOST
But the fake one, or not necessarily a fake one because it's a real place, but it did not host anything at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Alex LovelessHOST
Unfortunately, Patrick and Colin have got that question wrong, and so we will pass it over to give you a bonus point.
Alex LovelessHOST
Potentially, which of the following Montreal venues did not host an event at the 1976 Summer Olympic Games? Centre Pierre Chabonneux, Sherbrooke Stadium, Parc Sir Wilfrid Laurier, or the Saint-Michel Arena?
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