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List of cities that hosted multiple editions of the Olympic Games Total City Country Region Summer Olympics Winter Olympics 3 London United Kingdom: Europe 3 (1908, 1948, 2012) Los Angeles United States: North America 3 (1932, 1984, 2028) Paris France: Europe 3 (1900, 1924, 2024) 2 Albertville: 2 (1992, 2030 [29]) Athens Greece: 2 (1896, 2004 ...
The European Youth Olympic Festivals, both winter and summer, and broadly mirroring the Youth Olympic Games are organised biennially, while the quadrennial Games of the Small State of Europe (not to be confused with the separate Island Games) provide competition opportunities for the handful of microstates in the European continent. As of 2024 ...
The Olympic Games, part of the Olympic movement, was the first major, modern, multi-sport event of international significance. A multi-sport event is an organized sporting event, often held over multiple days, featuring competition in many different sports between organized teams of athletes from (mostly) nation-states. Events are typically ...
Olympic symbols were celebrated, including the flag of Greece, birthplace of the ancient Games, and the five interlaced Olympic rings, lit up in white in the arena where tens of thousands of ...
The 2024 Summer Olympics (French: Les Jeux Olympiques d'été de 2024), officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad (French: Jeux de la XXXIIIe olympiade de l'ère moderne) and branded as Paris 2024, were an international multi-sport event held from 26 July to 11 August 2024 in France, with several events started from 24 July.
Watch as the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe holds a hearing on whether to allow athletes from Russia and Belarus to take part in the 2024 Paris Olympics and Paralympics.
Olympic rings are seen near the village of Anterselva where the biathlon discipline will take place during the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, in northern Italy, Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025.
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.