Sites of the modern Olympic Games

Sites of the modern Olympic Games

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Sites of the modern Olympic Games
year Summer Games Winter Games
1896 Athens *
1900 Paris *
1904 St. Louis, Mo., U.S. *
1908 London *
1912 Stockholm *
1916 ** *
1920 Antwerp, Belg. *
1924 Paris Chamonix, France
1928 Amsterdam St. Moritz, Switz.
1932 Los Angeles Lake Placid, N.Y., U.S.
1936 Berlin Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Ger.
1940 ** **
1944 ** **
1948 London St. Moritz, Switz.
1952 Helsinki, Fin. Oslo, Nor.
1956 Melbourne, Austl. Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
1960 Rome Squaw Valley, Calif., U.S.
1964 Tokyo Innsbruck, Austria
1968 Mexico City Grenoble, France
1972 Munich, W.Ger. Sapporo, Japan
1976 Montreal Innsbruck, Austria
1980 Moscow Lake Placid, N.Y., U.S.
1984 Los Angeles Sarajevo, Yugos.
1988 Seoul, S.Kor. Calgary, Alta., Can.
1992 Barcelona, Spain Albertville, France
1994 *** Lillehammer, Nor.
1996 Atlanta, Ga., U.S. ***
1998 *** Nagano, Japan
2000 Sydney, Austl. ***
2002 *** Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.
2004 Athens ***
2006 *** Turin, Italy
2008 Beijing ***
2010 *** Vancouver, B.C., Can.
2012 London ***
2014 *** Sochi, Russia
*The Winter Games were not held until 1924.
**Games were not held during World War I and World War II.
***From 1992 the Summer and Winter Games were held on a staggered two-year schedule.
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