The , officially known as the '''XII Olympic Winter Games''', were held in
1976 in
Innsbruck ,
Austria . The games were originally awarded to
Denver ,
Colorado ,
United States in May,
1970 but a 300 percent rise in costs and worries about environmental impact led to voters' rejection of a $5 million bond issue to finance the games in
1972 , so the
IOC offered the games to
Whistler, British Columbia (
Canada ), who had bid on the games, but they too declined due to a
Change Of Government there. Whistler would go on to be associated with neighbouring
Vancouver 's successful bid for the
2010 Winter Olympics . The IOC finally called on Innsbruck, which had hosted the
1964 Winter Games just twelve years earlier, to also host the 1976 games.
With the
Munich Massacre at the
1972 Summer Olympics on everyone's minds, security was topflight for the 1976 games. Innsbruck 1976 pointed the way to the future in Olympic security, which was further increased for the
2002 Winter Olympics in
Salt Lake City , as a result of the
Events Of September 11, 2001 .
See the medal winners, ordered by sport:
(''Host nation in .'')
