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The 1940 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XII Olympiad, was a planned international multi-sport event scheduled to have been held from 21 September to 6 October 1940, in Tokyo City, Japan, and later rescheduled for 20 July to 4 August 1940, in Helsinki, Finland following the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937.
The Olympic Stadium was used as an underground bunker in World War II as the war went against Nazi Germany's favor. [37] The British reopened the Stadium in 1946 and parts of the stadium were rebuilt by the late 1950s. [38] As a host venue for the 1974 FIFA World Cup, the stadium had its roof partially covered on the North and South Stands. [39]
[2] Polish prisoners of war in the Woldenberg Oflag II-C POW camp were granted permission by their German captors to stage an unofficial POW Olympics during 23 July to 13 August 1944, and an Olympic Flag made with a bed sheet and pieces of coloured scarves was raised. The event has been considered to be a demonstration of the Olympic spirit ...
1944 Winter Olympics. The 1944 Winter Olympics, due to take place at Cortina d'Ampezzo, are cancelled due to World War II; 1944 Summer Olympics. The 1944 Summer Olympics, due to take place at London, are cancelled due to World War II
The 1992 games also saw the reintroduction to the Games of several smaller European states which had been annexed into the Soviet Union during World War II. At these games, gymnast Vitaly Scherbo set an inaugural medal record of five individual gold medals at a Summer Olympics, and equaled the inaugural record set by Eric Heiden at the 1980 ...
The 1948 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and officially branded as London 1948, were an international multi-sport event held from 29 July to 14 August 1948 in London, United Kingdom. Following a twelve-year hiatus caused by the outbreak of World War II, these were the first Summer Olympics held since the 1936 Games in ...
The world wars caused three Olympiads to pass without a celebration of the Games: the 1916 Games were cancelled because of World War I, and the summer and winter games of 1940 and 1944 were cancelled because of World War II. [45] The Russo-Georgian War between Georgia and Russia erupted on the opening day of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
In addition, three summer and two winter editions of the games were scheduled to take place but were later cancelled due to war: Berlin (summer) in 1916; Sapporo–Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Tokyo–Helsinki in 1940; and Cortina d'Ampezzo and London in 1944.