Games
Olympic Summer Games
More than half a century after giving up the hosting duties for the 1908 Olympic Games following the eruption of…
Melbourne won the rights for the 1956 Olympic Games over Buenos Aires by one vote, leading to the city becoming…
In 1938 Helsinki had been appointed to host the 1940 Olympic Games after Tokyo relinquished the duties because of its…
London had been selected to host the 1944 Olympic Games before they were cancelled due to World War II. So…
One of the lasting legacies from Berlin 1936 is the Olympic torch relay, created to link the modern Games to…
Because the 1932 Olympic Games were held in the middle of the Great Depression and in the relatively remote city…
Olympic Winter Games
Four years before hosting the summer Olympic Games in Rome, Italy welcomed the world’s best winter athletes to Cortina d’Ampezzo,…
These were the first edition of the Olympic Winter Games to be held in Scandinavia, the birthplace of numerous winter…
After World War II forced the cancellation of the 1940 and 1944 Olympic Winter Games, scheduled for Sapporo and Cortina…
After Berlin was awarded the 1936 Olympic Games, Germany exercised its right to also host the 1936 Olympic Winter Games,…
The small village of Lake Placid in upstate New York beat out several other American towns as well as Montreal…
St. Moritz was selected to host the second Olympic Winter Games after it was determined that the Netherlands, hosts of…