1944 Summer Olympics
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Games of the XIII Olympiad, scheduled in London, United Kingdom, canceled due to World War II
The 1944 Summer Olympics were the Games scheduled to be held in London, England, but they were canceled because of World War II. This cancellation meant that athletes around the world had to wait until 1948 for the Olympic Games to resume.
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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, Britain. 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 known interruption of the Olympic Games. The next one being the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo being delayed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, this is the latest Olympic cycle in which the Games were cancelled outright and skipped.
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