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Olympic Games that were scheduled but cancelled, in all cases due to World War I (1916) or World War II (1940 and 1944).. On 24 March 2020, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced that he and International Olympic Committee's president Thomas Bach had agreed to postpone the 2020 Summer Olympics, pending approval by the IOC, due to the rapidly spreading COVID-19 pandemic. [1]
At the Summer Olympics, there have been eight Olympic sports that have been discontinued. For the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, long-discontinued sports in golf (last competed in 1904) and rugby (last competed in 1924) were reinstated as Olympic sports, though rugby was as rugby sevens (having previously been rugby union).
List of Olympic venues in discontinued events; A. Aeronautics at the 1936 Summer Olympics; Alpinism at the Olympic Games; American football at the 1932 Summer Olympics;
The head organizer of the Tokyo Olympics said the Games may still be cancelled due to COVID-19 concerns.
Cancelled Olympic Games (5 C, 5 P) Pages in category "Cancelled multi-sport events" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
Despite breaking being a breakout hit of the Paris Games, the sport won't be returning to the 2028 Games in Los Angeles. Here are the sports that are included. What Olympic events are coming to LA ...
The others are namely the World Games, established to host sports not within the Olympic scope; the World Mind Sports Games, which hosts competitions in mind sports which are not found in either of the two abovementioned events; the X Games and the Winter X Games, organised for extreme action sports; the World Combat Games, for martial arts and ...
Last week marked one year to go before the Feb. 6, 2026 opening ceremony and the track in Cortina is still a half-completed construction site. The Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics are 1 year away ...