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On October 8, 2024, the sports councilor of Barcelona, David Escudé, announced that his city is open to a bid for the Olympic Games in 2036, 2040 or 2044. He said that for Barcelona sports are an "intangible part of city pride". [109] [110] [111] Barcelona had previously hosted the 1992 Summer Olympics.
* 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 ...
Sanford Stadium hosted the football final for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Shanghai Stadium hosted several football matches during the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. For the Summer Olympics, there are 120 venues that have been or will be used for football. This is the most of any sport at the Olympics. Cities in bold are Olympic host ...
If the 2036 Olympics must go to Asia — a logical option to follow Paris, Los Angeles in 2028 and Brisbane in 2032 — then Indonesia will push its case as a fast-emerging economy of 280 million ...
Due to recent changes at the Olympic Charter, the host city decisions have been made at IOC Sessions between seven and eleven years from the games; for example, the 2020 Summer Olympics were awarded to Tokyo on 7 September 2013, the 2022 Winter Olympics were awarded to Beijing on 31 July 2015, the 2024 Summer Olympics and the 2028 Summer ...
North Korea originally intended to co-host the Games in Pyongyang
The Summer Olympics are the world's largest multi-sport event, and are organized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) every four years. Selection of the host city is done at an IOC Session four to seven years prior to the tournament, in which the IOC members vote between candidate cities which have submitted bids.
It was used for football preliminaries at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Shanghai Stadium was also the venue for the opening ceremony of the 2007 Special Olympics World Summer Games. The stadium hosted the 2015 Supercoppa Italiana match between Juventus and Lazio on 8 August 2015. [1] Shanghai Stadium in 2008, before the major reconstruction