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The past Olympics

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Olympic Games host cities
Main article: List of Olympic host cities
By 2010, the Olympic Games will have been hosted by 41 cities in 22 countries. The 2008 Summer Olympics are currently being held in Beijing, and the 2010 Winter Olympics will be held in Vancouver. The number in parentheses following the city/country denotes how many times that city/country had then hosted the games, with said exclusions.

This table does not include the "Olympic Games" organized by Evangelos Zappas prior to the IOC's creation in 1894. It does list the "Intercalated Games" of 1906, but the IOC no longer considers them to be official Olympic Games.

NOTE: The bracketed numbers listed beside the cities and nations are the number of times it has hosted the Games.

Olympic Games host cities Summer Olympic Games Winter Olympic Games
Year Olympiad Host city Country № Host city Country
1896 I Athens (1) Greece (1)
1900 II Paris (1) France (1)
1904 III St. Louis, Missouri(1) (1) United States (1)
1906 III Athens (not recognized) Greece
1908 IV London (1) United Kingdom (1)
1912 V Stockholm (1) Sweden (1)
1916 VI (2) Berlin Germany
1920 VII Antwerp (1) Belgium (1)
1924 VIII Paris (2) France (2) I Chamonix (1) France (1)
1928 IX Amsterdam (1) Netherlands (1) II St Moritz (1) Switzerland (1)
1932 X Los Angeles, California(1) United States (2) III Lake Placid, New York (1) United States (1)
1936 XI Berlin (1) Germany (1) IV Garmisch-Partenkirchen (1) Germany (1)
1940 XII (3) Tokyo→
Helsinki Japan→
Finland V (3) Sapporo→
St Moritz→
Garmisch-Partenkirchen Japan→
Switzerland→
Germany
1944 XIII (3) London United Kingdom V (3) Cortina d'Ampezzo Italy
1948 XIV London (2) United Kingdom (2) V St Moritz (2) Switzerland (2)
1952 XV Helsinki (1) Finland (1) VI Oslo (1) Norway (1)
1956 XVI Melbourne, Victoria (1) +
Stockholm (2)(4) Australia (1) +
Sweden (2) VII Cortina d'Ampezzo (1) Italy (1)
1960 XVII Rome (1) Italy (1) VIII Squaw Valley, California (1) United States (2)
1964 XVIII Tokyo (1) Japan (1) IX Innsbruck (1) Austria (1)
1968 XIX Mexico City (1) Mexico (1) X Grenoble (1) France (2)
1972 XX Munich (1) West Germany (2) XI Sapporo (1) Japan (1)
1976 XXI Montreal, Quebec (1) Canada (1) XII Innsbruck (2) Austria (2)
1980 XXII Moscow (1) Soviet Union (1) XIII Lake Placid, New York (2) United States (3)
1984 XXIII Los Angeles, California (2) United States (3) XIV Sarajevo (1) Yugoslavia (1)
1988 XXIV Seoul (1) South Korea (1) XV Calgary, Alberta (1) Canada (1)
1992 XXV Barcelona (1) Spain (1) XVI Albertville (1) France (3)
1994 XVII Lillehammer (1) Norway (2)
1996 XXVI Atlanta, Georgia (1) United States (4)
1998 XVIII Nagano (1) Japan (2)
2000 XXVII Sydney, New South Wales (1) Australia (2)
2002 XIX Salt Lake City, Utah (1) United States (4)
2004 XXVIII Athens (2) Greece (2)
2006 XX Turin (1) Italy (2)
2008 XXIX Beijing (1)(5) China (1)
2010 XXI Vancouver, British Columbia (1) Canada (2)
2012 XXX London (3) United Kingdom (3)
2014 XXII Sochi Russia
2016 XXXI To be announced
2018 XXIII To be announced

1 Originally awarded to Chicago, but moved to St. Louis to coincide with the World's Fair
2 Cancelled due to World War I
3 Cancelled due to World War II
4 Equestrian events were held in Stockholm, Sweden. Stockholm had to bid for the equestrian competition separately; it received its own Olympic flame and had its own formal invitations and opening & closing ceremonies, just like the regular Summer Olympics.[61]
5 Equestrian events held in China's Hong Kong SAR. Although Hong Kong's separate NOC conducted the equestrian competition, it was an integral part of the Beijing Games; it was not conducted under a separate bid, flame, etc., as was the 1956 Stockholm equestrian competition. The IOC website lists only Beijing as the host city.[62]
 
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