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  1. 9 de dez. de 2020 · 1904 St. Louis Olympics. The Games of the III Olympiad were held in St. Louis, Mo. from August to September 1904. Due to tensions from the Russo-Japanese War and complications in getting to the United States, only 62 of the 650 athletes who competed came from outside North America. Only 12 to 15 nations were represented.

  2. 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 September 21 to October 6, 1940, in Tokyo City, Japan, and later rescheduled for July 20 to August 4, 1940, in Helsinki, Finland following the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in ...

  3. London 1944 →. The 1944 Winter Olympics, officially known as the V Olympic Winter Games ( Italian: V Giochi olimpici invernali) after the cancellation of 1940 Winter Olympics, were a planned international multi-sport event scheduled to have been held in February 1944 in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. The games were canceled because of World War II ...

  4. 22 de mar. de 2020 · St. Moritz hosted the Winter Games for a second time in 1948, while Cortina eventually got another shot with the 1956 Winter Olympics. The Olympic games were cancelled altogether because of World War I (1916) and World War II (1940 and 1944) — and in those latter two quadrennials, both the Summer and Winter Games were shelved.

  5. 18 de nov. de 2019 · Updated on November 18, 2019. Since the Olympic Games had not been held in either 1940 or 1944 because of World War II, there was much debate as to whether or not to hold the 1948 Olympic Games at all. Ultimately, the 1948 Olympic Games (also known as the XIV Olympiad) were held, with a few post-war modifications, from July 28 to August 14, 1948.

  6. Games of the 13 Olympiad,1944 - did not held - Interesting Facts London, United Kingdom was elected host city in June 1939, two months before World War II started. The Games of the 13 Olympiad in 1944 would have celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Modern Olympiad, but World War II caused the Olympics to be canceled.

  7. 8 de ago. de 2016 · Although World War II forced the cancellation of the 1944 Summer Games, an unofficial Olympics took place in a most unlikely setting—a Nazi prisoner of war camp.