Sports in Toronto Summer Olympic Games five times: 1960, 1964, 1976, 1996 and 2008. The closest it came to winning the games was in 2008, when it finished second to Beijing by a vote of 56-22. Varsity Stadium on the campus of the University of Toronto, hosted some of the matches of the Olympic football tournament of the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. The first major multi-sport event that the city of Toronto hosted was the 1976 Summer Paralympics. It was the fifth edition of the Paralympic Games and the first time it was hosted in Canada. In 2009, Toronto submitted a bid
Football at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification South Africa in spite of the Soweto uprising), the three African participants withdrew a day before the start of the Games. The Pre-Olympic tournaments of the Asian Qualifiers for the 1976 Summer Olympic saw Iran, Israel and North Korea qualify. Football at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification The men's qualification for the 1976 Summer Olympics. A total of 16 teams qualified but only 13 teams participated in the finals of the Olympic tournament. <br> <br> <br> The European Qualifiers for the 1976 Summer Olympics tournament took place after two rounds (qualifying and tournament). East Germany, France, Spain and