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Countries around the world have selected cities within their national territory to put forward 'bids for hosting the Olympic Games'. Since the creation of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1894, which successfully revived the Ancient Greek Olympics into what is currently their modern version, the interested cities have rivaled for the selection as host city of the Summer Olympic Games (or ''Games of the Olympiad'') or Winter Olympic Games.
What follows is a list of the cities that have bid to host any of the Summer and Winter Olympics. Olympics have been chosen to be held in 50 cities (including repeats) since its "rebirth", twice in Eastern Europe, 5 times in East Asia, once in Central America, and the remainder in Western nations. No African, South American, Central Asian, or South Asian nation has ever been chosen as host for the Olympics.

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Summer Olympics bids

Winter Olympics bids

Notes

References

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Summer Olympics bids

Games	Year	Candidate cities		Non-candidate applicant cities[1]	IOC Session
		Host city	Others
'I'	1896	'Athens'[2]			1st Paris (1894-06-23)
'II'	1900	'Paris'
'III'	1904	( '''St. Louis''')[3]			4th Paris (1901-05-22)
'IV'	1908	'Rome' ( '''London''')[4]	Berlin Milan		6th London (June, 1904)
'V'	1912	'Stockholm'			10th Berlin (1909-05-27)
'VI'	''1916''	'''Berlin'[5]''	Alexandria Amsterdam Brussels Budapest Cleveland		14th Stockholm (1912-05-27)
'VII'	1920	'Antwerp'[6]	Amsterdam Atlanta Budapest Cleveland Havana Lyon[7] Philadelphia		17th Lausanne (1919-04-05)
'VIII'	1924	'Paris'[8]	Amsterdam Barcelona Los Angeles Prague Rome		19th Lausanne (1921-06-02)
'IX'	1928	'Amsterdam'	Los Angeles
'X'	1932	'Los Angeles'			21st Rome (April, 1923)
'XI'	1936	'Berlin'	Alexandria Barcelona Budapest Buenos Aires Cologne Dublin Frankfurt Helsinki Lausanne Nuremberg Rio de Janeiro Rome		30th Lausanne (1931-05-13)
'XII'	''1940''	'''Tokyo' 'Helsinki'[9]''			35th Berlin (1936-07-31)
'XIII'	''1944''	'''London'[10]''	Athens Budapest Detroit Helsinki Lausanne Montreal Rome		38th London (1939-06-09)
'XIV'	1948	'London'[11]	Baltimore Lausanne Los Angeles Minneapolis Philadelphia		39th Lausanne (September, 1946)
'XV'	1952	'Helsinki'	Amsterdam Chicago Detroit Los Angeles Minneapolis Philadelphia		40th Stockholm (1947-06-21)
'XVI'	1956	'Melbourne' Stockholm[12]	Buenos Aires Chicago Detroit Los Angeles Mexico City Minneapolis Philadelphia San Francisco		43rd Rome (1949-04-28)
'XVII'	1960	'Rome'	Brussels Budapest Detroit Lausanne Mexico City Tokyo		50th Paris (1955-06-15)
'XVIII'	1964	'Tokyo'	Brussels Detroit Vienna		55th Munich (1959-05-26)
'XIX'	1968	'Mexico City'	Buenos Aires Detroit Lyon		60th Baden-Baden (1963-10-18)
'XX'	1972	'Munich'	Detroit Madrid Montreal		64th Rome (1966-04-26)
'XXI'	1976	'Montreal'	Los Angeles Moscow		69th Amsterdam (1970-05-12)
'XXII'	1980	'Moscow'	Los Angeles		75th Vienna (1974-10-23)
'XXIII'	1984	'Los Angeles'			80th Athens (1978-05-18)
'XXIV'	1988	'Seoul'	Nagoya		84th Baden-Baden (1981-09-30)
'XXV'	1992 ''details''	'Barcelona'	Amsterdam Belgrade Birmingham Brisbane Paris		91st Lausanne (1986-10-17)
'XXVI'	1996 ''details''	'Atlanta'	Athens Belgrade Manchester Melbourne Toronto		96th Tokyo (1990-09-18)
'XXVII'	2000 ''details''	'Sydney'	Beijing Berlin Istanbul Manchester		101st Monte-Carlo (1993-09-23)
'XXVIII'	2004 ''details''	'Athens'	Buenos Aires Cape Town Rome Stockholm	Istanbul Lille Rio de Janeiro St. Petersburg San Juan Seville	106th Lausanne (1997-09-05)
'XXIX'	2008 ''details''	'Beijing'	Istanbul Osaka Paris Toronto	Bangkok Cairo Havana Kuala Lumpur Seville	112th Moscow (2001-07-12)
'XXX'	2012 ''details''	'London'	Madrid Moscow New York City Paris	Havana Istanbul Leipzig Rio de Janeiro	117th Singapore (2005-07-06)
'XXXI'	2016 ''details''			Chicago Madrid Prague Rio de Janeiro Tokyo Doha Havana Monterrey Dubai	121st Copenhagen (2009)

Winter Olympics bids

Games	Year	Candidate cities		Non-candidate applicant cities	IOC Session
		Host city	Others
'I'	1924	'Chamonix'[13]			19th Lausanne (1921-06-02)
'II'	1928	'St. Moritz'	Davos Engelberg		24th Lisbon (1926-05-06)
'III'	1932	'Lake Placid'[14]	Bear Mountain Denver Duluth Minneapolis Montreal Oslo Yosemite Valley		27th Lausanne (1929-04-10)
'IV'	1936	'Garmisch-Partenkirchen'	Montreal St. Moritz		31st Vienna (1933-06-07)
	''1940''	'' 'Sapporo' 'St. Moritz' 'Garmisch-Partenkirchen'''			36th Warsaw (1937-06-09)
	''1944''	'' 'Cortina d'Ampezzo'''	Montreal Oslo		38th London (1939-06-09)
'V'	1948	'St. Moritz'	Lake Placid		39th Lausanne (September, 1946)
'VI'	1952	'Oslo'	Cortina d'Ampezzo Lake Placid		40th Stockholm (1947-06-21)
'VII'	1956	'Cortina d'Ampezzo'	Colorado Springs Lake Placid Montreal		43rd Rome (1949-04-28)
'VIII'	1960	'Squaw Valley'	Garmisch-Partenkirchen Innsbruck St. Moritz		50th Paris (1955-06-16)
'IX'	1964	'Innsbruck'	Calgary Lahti		55th Munich (1959-05-26)
'X'	1968	'Grenoble'	Calgary Lahti Lake Placid Oslo Sapporo		61st Innsbruck (1964-01-28)
'XI'	1972	'Sapporo'	Banff Lahti Salt Lake City		64th Rome (1966-04-26)
'XII'	1976	'Denver' ( '''Innsbruck''')[15]	Sion Tampere Vancouver-Garibaldi		69th Amsterdam (1970-05-12)
'XIII'	1980	'Lake Placid'	Vancouver-Garibaldi[16]		75th Vienna (1974-10-23)
'XIV'	1984	'Sarajevo'	Gothenburg Sapporo		80th Athens (1978-05-18)
'XV'	1988	'Calgary'	Cortina d'Ampezzo Falun		84th Baden-Baden (1981-09-30)
'XVI'	1992	'Albertville'	Anchorage Berchtesgaden Cortina d'Ampezzo Falun Lillehammer Sofia		91st Lausanne (1986-10-17)
'XVII'	1994	'Lillehammer'	Anchorage Östersund Sofia		94th Seoul (1988-09-15)
'XVIII'	1998 ''details''	'Nagano'	Aosta Jaca Östersund Salt Lake City		97th Birmingham (1991-06-15)
'XIX'	2002 ''details''	'Salt Lake City'	Östersund Quebec City Sion	Graz Jaca Poprad-Tatry Sochi Tarvisio	104th Budapest (1995-06-16)
'XX'	2006 ''details''	'Turin'	Sion	Helsinki Klagenfurt Poprad-Tatry Zakopane	109th Seoul (1999-06-19)
'XXI'	2010 ''details''	'Vancouver'	Berne[17] PyeongChang Salzburg	Andorra la Vella Harbin Jaca Sarajevo	115th Prague (2003-07-02)
'XXII'	2014 ''details''	'Sochi'	PyeongChang Salzburg	Almaty Borjomi Jaca Sofia	119th Guatemala City (2007-07-04)

Notes

1. Those bids which were not shortlisted for the second and final bidding phase.
2. At the first Session of the International Olympic Committee, in 1894, Athens was chosen to stage the first Olympic Games of the Modern Era, in 1896, as an honour to the birthplace of the Ancient Olympics. Paris was chosen as the site for the II Olympiad, in 1900, despite Pierre de Coubertin's wish that Paris would celebrate the first Games. [ Athens 1896, , , , International Olympic Committee, , ][ Factsheet – The Olympic Movement, , , , International Olympic Committee, , ]
3. Chicago was voted the host city of the III Olympiad, but due to pressure from the city of St. Louis, which was staging the World's Fair on the same year, the Games were transferred to this city. [ 1904 Summer Olympics: St. Louis, Missouri ]
4. Rome was the choice of the IOC, but the 1906 eruption of Mount Vesuvius forced the Italians to return the Games to the IOC, which reattributed them to London. [ 1908 Olympics: London, England ]
5. The Games were cancelled due to the ongoing World War I.
6. Antwerp was awarded with the Olympic Games as a compensation and to honour the Belgians who fought, suffered and died during the war. [ Antwerp 1920 ]
7. Lyon withdrew before the final vote.
8. Paris got the Games for the second time to fulfill Pierre de Coubertin's wish to see a successful Olympics in his country, erasing the flaws of the 1900 Olympics, before he retired from the IOC. [ 1924 Olympics: Paris, France ]
9. Due to the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Japan relinquished its hosting rights to both the Summer and Winter Games. On 1938-07-15, the IOC relocated the Summer Games to Helsinki and the Winter Games to St. Moritz. Finland's invasion by the Soviet Union, in 1939, and the ensuing World War II forced the IOC to cancel the 1940 Summer Games. [ 1948 Olympics: London, England ] Disagreements with the Swiss officials, concerning the entry of professional skiers in the Games, prompted the IOC to reattribute them for the second consecutive time to Garmisch-Partenkirchen, on 1939-06-09. They were cancelled as well because of the war. [ St. Moritz 1948 ]
10. The Games were cancelled because of the ongoing World War II.
11. Selected without election, after the end of the World War II.
12. Australian's strict quarantine laws concerning the entry of foreign horses made it impossible for the equestrian events to be held within the Games period. In May, 1954, during the 49th IOC Session in Athens, Stockholm was chosen to stage what would be known as "Equestrian Games of the XVIth Olympiad". [ Melbourne 1956 ][ The Official Report of the Organizing Committee for the Equestrian Games of the XVIth Olympiad, , , , Organizing Committee for the Equestrian Games of the XVIth Olympiad, , ]
13. Chamonix was chosen by the IOC to stage the "International Sports Week 1924", which would later be considered the First Olympic Winter Games. [ Chamonix 1924 ]
14. Until the 1938 revision of the Olympic Charter, the IOC rules stated that the host country of the Summer Olympics took priority if it wished to host the Winter Olympics.
15. Denver gave up its hosting rights because a state referendum prohibited allocation of public funds to support the Games. The Austrian city of Innsbruck, which had hosted the Games twelve years earlier, stepped in to replace Denver. [ Innsbruck 1976 ]
16. Vancouver-Garibaldi bid was withdrawn on 1974-10-04, leaving Lake Placid as the only bidder.
17. Berne withdrew its bid on 2002-09-27, following a negative referendum outcome over the payment of an Olympics. [ Berne Officially Withdraws Bid ]

References

★ International Olympic Committee (IOC) — Olympic Games

★ IOC Vote History

★ Olympic Games Museum

★ Olympic Bid Election History

External link

★ GamesBids.com