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  2. List of Olympic Games host cities - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. List of Olympic venues - Wikipedia

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    The following are lists of all Olympic venues, starting with the first modern Olympic Games in 1896, organized alphabetically, by sport, and by year. As a multi-sport event , competitions held during a given Olympics usually take place in different venues located across the host city and its metropolitan area.

  4. Summer Olympic Games - Wikipedia

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    The Summer Olympic Games, also known as the Summer Olympics or the Games of the Olympiad, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The inaugural Games took place in 1896 in Athens , Greece , and the most recent was held in 2024 in Paris , France .

  5. Olympic Games - Wikipedia

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    Beginning with the 2020 Summer Olympics, the succeeding hosts of the respective Olympic Games (summer or winter) will enter immediately before the current host in descending order. Speeches are given by the President of the Organizing Committee , the IOC president, and the head of state/representative of the host country, formally opening the ...

  6. List of participating nations at the Summer Olympic Games

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    The Games continued to grow, with 199 nations represented in Sydney, for the 2000 Summer Games, [36] and 201 nations in Athens, for the 2004 Summer Olympics. [37] A record number of nations (204) were represented at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, [38] with Marshall Islands and Tuvalu making their Olympic debut.

  7. Category:Summer Olympics by host city - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 5 September 2024, at 11:11 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  8. Category:Summer Olympics by year - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Summer Olympics by year" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.

  9. 1984 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia

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    The 1984 Summer Olympics are widely considered to be the most financially successful modern Olympics, [5] serving as an example on how to run an Olympic Games. As a result of low construction costs, due to the use of existing sport infrastructure, coupled with a reliance on private corporate funding, [ 6 ] the 1984 Games generated a profit of ...