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The article focuses on the 1976 Olympic Games, officially called the Games of the XXI Olympiad, which was held in Montreal, Quebec in Canada and gymnast Nadia Comaneci of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Rumania, who achieved 10.00 score seven times in the first five days of the game. It relates that it was the performance of Nadia Comaneci which gave the opening week of the Olympics its reigning deity. Jim McKay of American Broadcasting Co. (ABC) described Comaneci as swimming in an ocean of air. It mentions that she started her training with couple Béla Károlyi and Marta Károlyi. It adds that at the opening days of the Olympics, athletes performed very stunningly. It mentions that swimmer Kornelia Ender from East Germany won two gold medals.

Reveals a group of Calgary businessmen have decided to underwrite some of the Latvian bobsled team's Olympic training costs, and have picked up part of the $13,000 tab for the athletes' trip to Calgary, where the Latvian athletes trained on a racing sled that belonged to the Canadian bobsled team. Community spirit behind the effort.