...impressionable boy who sat in front of the television set, watching countryman John Walker win the 1,500-meter run at the 1976 Olympics. Thursday morning, though, Carter mounted the top step on the podium here, wiping away the disappointment of...

...expanses of ocean. Here, competitors are racing in a glassy enclosed basin that was used as the rowing venue in the 1976 Olympics. The freshwater is pumped in from the nearby St. Lawrence River. The calm surface belies how violent things can...

...Salt Lake while a student at Southern Mississippi, investigators found. Ganga, who led the African boycott of the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, and his family, received $270,000 in cash, medical and travel expenses and lavish gifts, according...

...in Anchorage, skiing would have been hard to dodge. Her uncle, Chris Haines, represented the United States in the 1976 Olympics at Innsbruck, Austria. Her aunt, Betsy Haines, was the first racer on the5-kilometer course four years later...

...Salt Lake while a student at Southern Mississippi, investigators found. Ganga, who led the African boycott of the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, and his family, received $270,000 in cash, medical and travel expenses and lavish gifts, according...