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* 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). The following is a list of host cities of the Olympic Games, both summer and winter, since the modern Olympics began in 1896. Since then, summer and winter games have usually ...
Ancient. Intercalated. v. t. e. National Olympic Committees that wish to host an Olympic Games select cities within their territories to put forth bids for the Olympic Games. The staging of the Paralympic Games is automatically included in the bid. [ 1 ] Since the creation of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1894, which successfully ...
Egypt has expressed interest in hosting the 2036 Summer Olympics (and eventually, the 2040 Summer Olympics) in a multi-million dollar under-construction sports complex called the Egypt International Olympic City, 45 kilometers east of Cairo. [5] In January 2022, Egyptian Sports Minister Ashraf Sobhy revealed the country's plans to bid for the ...
The following is a list of bids for the Summer Olympics. It consists of the year the games were held or scheduled to be held, the date the decision was made, the city and country which issued the bid, the votes at the IOC Session for each voting round, and the ultimate host of the games. The bid listed first for each games is the one selected ...
Just consider how the beautification work for the 1932 Olympics changed L.A.'s skyline. Palms trees were already a SoCal gardening craze around the turn of the 20th century, according to the PBS ...
Marcelo Ebrard, the Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs, stated on social media that if a bid is authorised by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Mexico City will seek to host the 2036 or 2040 Olympic Games. The city last hosted the Summer Olympics in 1968. [88] On 26 October 2022, the Foreign Affairs Secretary of Mexico, Marcelo Ebrard ...
The host city for an Olympic Games had historically been chosen seven to eight years ahead of their celebration. Beginning with the 2024 and 2028 Olympics selection process in 2017, the IOC has proceeded to announce the winning bid with a longer lead-in time in order to provide time for the winning cities/regions to prepare.
London held the 2012 Summer Olympics, becoming the first city to host the Olympic Games three times. In his closing address, Jacques Rogge described the Games as "Happy and glorious". The host nation won 29 gold medals, the best haul for Great Britain since the 1908 Games in London. The United States returned to the top of the medal table after ...