In which country was the last Olympics held?

In which country was the last Olympics held?

List of Olympic Host Cities

What country was the 2018 Winter Olympics held?

South Korea
The 23rd Winter Olympic Games will be held in PyeongChang, South Korea between February 9 and February 25, 2018. Forty-eight European countries will be competing in PyeongChang, making up more than half of the total number of competing nations at the Games.

Where was the last Winter Olympic Games held?

The following Winter Olympics will be in Italy. Click on the links for more information about each of the past Games. See also the list of host city dates and time zones, and location. The Winter Games has been held in the USA four times (the most of any country): 1932, 1960, 1980 and 2002.

How many summer and Winter Olympic Games are there?

Since then, summer and winter games have usually celebrated a four-year period known as an Olympiad; summer and winter games normally held in staggered even years. There have been 28 Summer Olympic Games held in 23 cities, and 23 Winter Olympic Games held in 20 cities. You may like this Where and how were the Olympics of 1978 held?

When was the last time the Olympics were postponed?

However, in 1949, the International Olympic Committee (IOC), decided to unrecognize the 1906 Games. The 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo were postponed for the first time in the Olympics history to summer 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic with the 2022 Winter Olympics being held roughly six months later in Beijing.

Where was the first winter and Summer Olympics held?

The games are governed by the International Olympics Committee (IOC). Both the winter and summer Olympics are held after every four years, but two are two years apart. The first Olympics is thought to have taken place in Olympia, Greece in the 8 th century.

Where are the next few summer and Winter Olympics?

The most recent Summer Olympics was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2016 while the Summer Olympics was last held in Sochi , Russia in 2014. The next Summer Olympics will be held in Tokyo, Japan in 2020 then Paris, France in 2024 while Pyeongchang, South Korea will host the 2018 Winter Olympics followed by Beijing, China in 2022.

Where are the next Olympic Winter Games being held?

The 2018 Winter Olympics are being hosted in Pyeongchang, South Korea. So after 2018, the next Winter Olympics will be hosted in Beijing, China in 2022.

Where were the first Sochi Winter Olympics held?

The Sochi Games marked the first time that the Winter Olympics were held in Russia . The country had previously been home to the Olympics when Moscow hosted the 1980 Summer Games. You may like this Is curling an Olympic winter sport?

Where was the fourth Summer Olympics held?

The 1908 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the IV Olympiad, and commonly known as London 1908, was an international multi-sport event held in London, United Kingdom, from 27 April to 31 October 1908.

Who hosted the most recent Winter Olympics?

2018 Winter Olympics