1944 Summer Olympics

Cancelled multi-sport event in London, England May 2024 March 2025 1944 Summer Olympics Official poster for the 1944 Summer Olympics before they were cancelled London Britain United Kingdom Berlin 1936← grey 1940 Summer Olympics Tokyo → Helsinki 1940 London 1948 Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936← grey 1940 Winter Olympics Sapporo → Saint Moritz → Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1940← grey 1944 Winter Olympics Cortina d'Ampezzo 1944 Saint Moritz 1948 The 1944 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XIII Olympiad, was a planned international multi-sport event scheduled to have been held from 22 July to 5 August 1944 in London, United Kingdom. The games were cancelled because of World War II alongside the 1944 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, and were the fifth games to be cancelled due to war. However, unofficial celebrations went ahead anyway in Switzerland as well as by Polish prisoners of war held in the occupied Poland by the Nazi regime of Germany. The games eventually took place in London in 1948, which later hosted the 2012 Summer Olympics. This was the fifth interruption of the Olympic Games, the next being the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, which was delayed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This was the latest Olympic cycle in which the Games were cancelled outright and skipped. History London won the bid on the first ballot in a June 1939 International Olympic Committee (IOC) election over Rome, Detroit, Lausanne, Athens, Budapest, Helsinki and Montreal. The selection was made at the 38th IOC Session in 1939 (London).Past Olympic host city election results http://www.gamesbids.com/english/archives/past.shtml live https://web.archive.org/web/20110124022022/http://www.gamesbids.com/eng/past.html 24 January 2011 17 March 2011 GamesBids Due to World War II, which by then had been ongoing for four years and had devastated London, the games were cancelled. In spite of the war, the IOC organised many events to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of its foundation at its headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland. Held from 17 to 19 June 1944, this celebration was referred to as The Jubilee Celebrations of IOC by Carl Diem, the originator of the modern tradition of the Olympic torch relay. Beijing 2008 Olympic Games: Mount Olympus Meets the Middle Kingdom Beijing 2008 Olympic Games :: History of the Olympic Games http://www.britannica.com/topic/Mount-Olympus-Meets-the-Middle-Kingdom-1702245/History-of-the-Olympic-Games#toc277322 Encyclopædia Britannica 11 December 2015 Polish prisoners of war in the Oflag II-C POW camp in Woldenberg were granted permission by their Nazi captors to stage an unofficial POW Olympics during 23 July to 13 August 1944, and an Olympic flag made with a bed sheet and pieces of coloured scarves was raised. The event has been considered to be a demonstration of the Olympic spirit transcending war.Grys Iwona The Olympic Idea Transcending War Olympic Review XXV 8, April–May 1996 1996 68 https://digital.la84.org/digital/api/collection/p17103coll1/id/35452/download 26 June 2012 10 September 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20080910020833/http://www.la84foundation.org/OlympicInformationCenter/OlympicReview/1996/oreXXV8/oreXXV8zza.pdf dead . Bid results +IOC voting (only one round) city country votes London Britain Britain 20 Rome Fascist Italy (1922–1943) Italy 11 Detroit United States 1912 2 Lausanne Switzerland civil Switzerland 1 Athens Kingdom of Greece Greece 0 Budapest Kingdom of Hungary (1920–46) Hungary 0 Helsinki Finland 0 Montreal Canada 1921 0 See also 1944 Summer Olympics Notes soly Tokyo→Helsinkicancelled due to World War II XIII OlympiadLondon 1944 (cancelled due to World War II) London (1948) Category:Cancelled Olympic Games Category:Events cancelled due to World War II Category:1944 in multi-sport events Category:Summer Olympics by year Category:Summer Olympics in London