1976 Winter Olympics medal table 1976 Winter Olympics medal table The 1976 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XII Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event held in Innsbruck, Austria, from 4 to 15 February 1976. A total of 1,123 athletes representing 37 National Olympic Committees (NOC) participated in 37 events from 10 different sports and disciplines. Two events were contested for the first time: the figure skating discipline of ice dancing, and the men's 1,000 metres in speed skating. Sixteen NOCs won at least one medal, and twelve of them secured at least one gold. The Soviet Union clinched the first place in
Kenya at the 1998 Winter Olympics Shortly after the 1998 Games, Boit's first child was born, the Kenyan naming him Daehlie Boit. Kenya at the 1998 Winter Olympics Kenya competed in the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. The country's participation at the Games marked its Winter Olympics debut, although it had competed in the Summer Olympics since 1956. The delegation consisted of a single cross-country skier, Philip Boit. He had been trained as part of a scheme created by American sportswear company Nike, Inc. Although Boit did not win a medal, his efforts received worldwide attention after gold medallist Bjorn Daehlie of Norway waited for