History UsefulNotes / OlympicGames

* '''Features the 2018 Pyeongchang Games'''

* '''XX -- 1972: Munich, West Germany (now Germany)'''[[note]]Identified as "München"[[/note]]

'''Mascot:''' Vučko the wolf[[note]]Symbolic of animals' desire to befriend humans[[/note]]\\

* '''XX -- 2006: Turin, Italy'''[[note]]Identified as "Torino"[[/note]]

* '''XXV -- 2026: Milano and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy'''

'''Mascots:''' Tina (Olympics), Milo (Paralympics), & the Flo (sidekicks), a pair of stoat siblings and their six snowdrop friends.[[note]]The stoat is common animal in Europe, and the siblings are named after their respective host cities. The Flo are animorphic snowdrops that act as companions to the mascots.[[/note]] First Winter Games hosted in Western Europe and Italy after 20 years, as well as first for 1956 host Cortina d'Ampezzo after 70 years, the very first for Milan, the second-largest city in Italy and the first Olympic Games to officially bill two separate host cities. The candidature was originally supposed to be a triple one with 2006 host city Turin returning as well, but withdrew before the bid could be officially presented. These will be the first Winter Games where ski mountaineering - a skiing discipline where competitors must climb a mountain either on skis or carrying them, then descend on skis - will be contested. Ski mountaineering was a part of the now-defunct winter sport of military patrol - seen as a predecessor to biathlon - when it was contested at the first Winter Olympics in Chamonix in 1924.

* '''IV -- 1963: São Paulo, Brazil'''

* '''XII -- 1995: Mar del Plata, Argentina'''

* '''XV -- 2007: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil'''

* '''II -- 1973: Lagos, Nigeria'''

* '''VII -- 1999: Johannesburg, South Africa'''

* '''VIII -- 2003: Abuja, Nigeria'''

* '''XX -- 2027: Barranquilla, Colombia'''

'''Mascots:''' Tina (Olympics), Milo (Paralympics), & the Flo (sidekicks), a pair of stoat siblings and their six snowdrop friends.[[note]]The stoat is common animal in Europe, and the siblings are named after their respective host cities. The Flo are animorphic snowdrops that act as companions to the mascots.[[/note]]
First Winter Games hosted in Western Europe and Italy after 20 years, as well as first for 1956 host Cortina d'Ampezzo after 70 years, the very first for Milan, the second-largest city in Italy and the first Olympic Games to officially bill two separate host cities. The candidature was originally supposed to be a triple one with 2006 host city Turin returning as well, but withdrew before the bid could be officially presented. These will be the first Winter Games where ski mountaineering - a skiing discipline where competitors must climb a mountain either on skis or carrying them, then descend on skis - will be contested. Ski mountaineering was a part of the now-defunct winter sport of military patrol - seen as a predecessor to biathlon - when it was contested at the first Winter Olympics in Chamonix in 1924.

* '''XXV -- 2026: Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy'''

'''Mascots:''' Tina, Milo & the Flo, a pair of stoat siblings and their six snowdrop friends.[[note]]The stoat is common animal in Europe, while the siblings are named after their respective host cities, the Flo are animorphic snowdrops that act as companions to the mascots.[[/note]]

'''Mascots:''' Miraitowa (Olympics) and Someity (Paralympics), {{Cartoon Creature}}s with checkered patterns[[note]]They are a nod to Japan's fascination for cute mascots as well as anime; respectively, the former is colored blue after the Games' official logo, and whose name is based on the Japanese words for "future" and "eternity", while the latter is colored pink in allusion to cherry blossoms, a cherished part of Japanese culture, and is named after the ''somei-yoshino'' (''Prunus × yedoensis'', a kind of cherry blossom) and the English words "So mighty".[[/note]]\\

'''Carriers of the Torch and Lighter of the Flame:''' Tadahiro Nomura[[note]]judoka and the only three-time consecutive gold medalist in his sport (Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000, and Athens 2004)[[/note]] and Saori Yoshida[[note]]wrestler and 4-time medalist (gold in Athens 2004, Beijing 2008, and London 2012; silver in Rio 2016)[[/note]] / Shigeo Nagashima, Sadaharu Oh, and Hideki Matsui, baseball legends[[note]]Nagashima was a 14-time Japan Series champion--11 as player, 3 as manager--with the Yomiuri Giants, one of Tokyo's most successful teams; Oh was 11-time Japan Series champion, also with the Giants, as well as current world record holder for most home runs at 868; Matsui was 3-time Japan Series champion, again with the Giants, as well as 2009 World Series champion and Series MVP with the New York Yankees[[/note]] / Hiroki Ōhashi and Junko Kitagawa, medical first responders / Wakako Tsuchida[[note]]paraplegic racer and Japan's first Paralympic medalist in both winter and summer editions (two gold and two silver in Nagano 1998 on ice sledge, then a bronze in Sydney 2000 and both a gold and silver in Athens 2004 on wheelchair)[[/note]] / Six schoolchildren born in Fukushima, Iwate, and Miyagi, the three most affected prefectures during the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami / ''Naomi Osaka''[[note]]Japanese-Haitian-American tennis superstar, four-time Grand Slam winner (2019 and 2021 Australian Open, and 2018 and 2020 US Open), then-reigning world #2, and activist for human rights and mental health awareness[[/note]]\\

'''Number of sports:''' 35 (as of 2024)\\

'''Mascots:''' Tina, Milo and the Flo, a pair of stoat siblings and their six snowdrop friends.

'''Duration:''' July 21 - August 6
-->These Games make the city the third three-time host after London and Paris, as well as the first Summer Games in the USA after 32 years (Atlanta 1996). Boston was originally the USA's candidate for 2024, but withdrew due to lack of support, causing the USOC to turn to experienced Los Angeles. Withdrawals of other candidate cities forced the IOC to simultaneously award the 2024 and 2028 Games to the two remaining candidates, and with Los Angeles eventually conceding the 2024 Games to Paris, it was nevertheless rewarded with the 2028 Games, with its eleven-year preparation period the longest to date. Once again as in 1984, heavy use of already-existing facilities with what new infrastructure is built to be planned with the city's long-term needs in mind (such as finally connecting the [[UsefulNotes/LosAngelesMetroRail Metro]] to LAX and building much-needed housing).

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[[caption-width-right:340:The famous Olympic Rings, designed in 1913 by Pierre de Coubertin (with the current version applied since 2011).]]

-->First Winter Games held in a different year from the Summer Games. Widely considered the best Winter Games, featuring an opening ceremony on a ski jump venue, whose climax was skier Stein Gruben going downhill with the Torch before the Cauldron was lit by Crown Prince Haakon, whose father, King Harald V, and grandfather, Olav V, were themselves Olympians. The Games featured the domination of women's cross-country events by Italy's Manuela Di Centa and Russia's Lyubov Yegorova, with 5 and 4 medals, respectively, a heartstopping victory of Italy over Norway in the men's 4×10km cross-country event by just 0.4 second, and American speed skater Dan Jansen, long considered a favorite but beleaguered by failure ever since 1988, when he had to compete even as he was mourning his older sister Jane, who died of leukemia hours before his first event, finally winning the 1000m event. A [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonya_Harding#Attack_on_Nancy_Kerrigan tabloid-friendly scandal]] involving rival American figure skaters Nancy Kerrigan and UsefulNotes/TonyaHarding provided fodder for comedians and sketch comedy shows for months; Harding never lived it down. A Norwegian-English {{mockumentary}} can be seen [[http://youtu.be/MESUvPydQvk here]], even though it has a "For all ages" rating in Norway is it NSFW.

-->Not as Nazi-ridden as the summer version, held in Berlin later that year, but the Germans still manage to come behind Norway in the medals table. These Games featured the debut of alpine skiing, and featured Britain's upset of Canada in men's ice hockey (a sport traditionally associated with the latter).