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Map of host cities and countries of the modern summer (orange) and winter (blue) Olympics. * Tokyo hosted the 2020 Summer Olympics in 2021, postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the SVG file, tap or hover over a city to show its name (only on the desktop).
However, some Olympic competitions may be held outside the host metropolitan area, and instead in other regions of the host country (as it is usually the case with Football at the Summer Olympics and its requirements for large stadia). One venue is designated as the "Olympic Stadium", the big centrepiece stadium of the games. Traditionally at ...
List of Summer Olympics venues: D–E; List of Summer Olympics venues: F–G; List of Summer Olympics venues: H–I; List of Summer Olympics venues: J–K; List of Summer Olympics venues: L; List of Summer Olympics venues: M–N; List of Summer Olympics venues: O; List of Summer Olympics venues: P; List of Summer Olympics venues: Q–R; List of ...
The Olympics are one of the world's oldest sporting events. Here's when the Games started, and how old they are ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics:
The 2024 Paris Olympics is the third Summer Games the city has hosted. Here's what you need to know on its history with the Summer Games and more:
Brisbane, Australia, will then host the 2032 Summer Olympics. The Winter Olympics will return to the United States in 2034, when Salt Lake City, Utah, hosts the Games. Show comments
The previous map implicates that the peninsula is a part of Russia (which occupied and annexed it in 2014), which contradicts UN position. It is important to note that Moscow hosted 1980 Olympics as a capital of the USSR and some venues were held outside Russian SFSR: in Minsk, Kyiv and Tallinn.
Since the creation of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1894, which successfully appropriated the name of the Ancient Greek Olympics to create a modern sporting event, interested cities have rivaled for selection as host of the Summer or Winter Olympic Games. 51 different cities have been chosen to host the modern Olympics: three in ...