Venues of the 1976 Summer Olympics as the Montreal Biodôme, opened on 19 June 1992. Île-Notre Dame serves multiple uses as of 2014. The canoeing and rowing basin has hosted World Rowing Championships special events in 1984 and 1992. The venue hosted the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in 1986. West of the basin on the island is Circuit Gilles Villeneuve which opened in 1978. The circuit has hosted the Formula One Canadian Grand Prix every year except 1987 and 2009. Venues of the 1976 Summer Olympics For the 1976 Summer Olympics, a total of twenty-seven sports venues were used. Several venues used had been in
Summer Olympic Games when Tokyo again becomes host city. Historically, the Summer Olympics has been held predominantly in English-speaking countries and European nations. Tokyo will be the first city outside these regions to have hosted the Summer Olympics twice; it will also be the largest city ever to have hosted the Games, having grown considerably since 1964. The 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, were the first Summer Olympics to be held in South America and the first that were held during the local winter season. The only two countries in the Southern Hemisphere to have hosted the Summer Olympics have been