Summer Olympic Games (Alternity)

The Olympic logo.

The Summer Olympic Games are an international multi-sport event held quadrennially (every four years) in a nation and city decided on by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) (the city of choice is selected by a popular vote within the IOC seven years prior to each Olympics). The most recent games to be held were the 1996 Summer Games in Atlanta, Georgia, USA; the next games to be held will be the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney, Australia, from September 15 through October 1, 2000.

The IOC recently selected Athens, Greece as the host city for the 2004 Summer Games. By then, it will have been 108 years since the Games were last held there, in 1896.

The Games

Games	Year	Host (city, nation)	Opened by	Dates held
I	1896	Athens, Greece	King George I	April 6 – 15
II	1900	Paris, France	N/A	May 14 – October 28
III	1904	New York City, United States of America	President Theodore Roosevelt	July 1 – 29
IV	1908	London, United Kingdom	King Edward VII	April 27 – October 31
V	1912	Stockholm, Sweden	King Gustav V	July 6 – 22
*VI	1916	N/A	N/A	N/A
VII	1920	Antwerp, Belgium	King Albert I	April 20 – September 10
VIII	1924	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Emperor Pedro III	November 4 – 27
IX	1928	Amsterdam, Netherlands	Prince Henry of the Netherlands	July 28 – August 12
X	1932	San Diego, United States of America	Vice President Charles Curtis	July 30 – August 14
XI	1936	Berlin, Germany	Chancellor Adolf Hitler	August 1 – 16
*XII	1940	N/A	N/A	N/A
*XIII	1944	N/A	N/A	N/A
XIV	1948	London, United Kingdom	King George VI	July 29 – August 14
XV	1952	Helsinki, Finland	President Juho Kusti Paasikivi	July 19 – August 3
XVI	1956	Rome, Italy	President Giovanni Gronchi	August 25 – September 11
XVII	1960	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Emperor Pedro IV	October 17 – November 1
XVIII	1964	Tokyo, Japan	Emperor Hirohito	October 10 – 24
XIX	1968	Managua, Central America	President Francisco Orlich	October 12 – 27
XX	1972	Munich, West Germany	President Gustav Heinemann	August 26 – September 10
XXI	1976	Calgary, Canada	Queen Elizabeth II	July 17 – August 1
XXII	1980	Moscow, Soviet Union	Chairman Leonid Brezhnev	July 19 – August 3
XXIII	1984	Los Angeles, United States of America	President Ronald Reagan	July 28 – August 12
XXIV	1988	Pyongyang, Korea	President Roh Tae-woo	September 17 – October 2
XXV	1992	Paris, France	President François Mitterrand	July 25 – August 9
XXVI	1996	Atlanta, United States of America	President Bill Clinton	July 19 – August 4
XXVII	2000	Sydney, Australia (future event)	TBD	September 15 – October 1
XXVIII	2004	Athens, Greece (future event)	TBD	August 13 – 29

• The 1916 Summer Games, originally to be held in Berlin, were cancelled because of World War I, while the 1940 and 1944 Summer Games were originally to have been held in Tokyo (and then switched to Helsinki) for 1940, and London for 1944, respectively. Both were cancelled because of World War II.

1924 Rio de Janeiro.

1932 San Diego.

1956 Rome.

1960 Rio de Janeiro.

1968 Managua.

1976 Calgary.

1992 Paris.

See also

• Winter Olympic Games – created because of the Summer Games' success; first held in 1924 in Chamonix, France, and most recently in Santiago, Chile in 1996.