The Olympics continued during the war

Cold War! During World War I and World War II, the Olympics were discontinued.

Since the Summer Olympics began in 1896, there have been only three interruptions, all because of war.

The Olympics that have been suspended in history:

Berlin Olympics.

The sixth Olympic Games were originally scheduled to be held in Berlin, Germany, in 1916, but in 1914, the First World War broke out, the Games were forced to be suspended, and the headquarters of the Olympic Committee was forced to move to Lausanne, Switzerland, where more than 32 Olympians were killed.

Tokyo Olympics.

The 1940 Olympics were originally scheduled to be held in Japan, but because of the war, they had to be moved to Finland, and Finland did not escape the war and was finally forced to cancel.

London Olympics.

1944 was the year of the Second World War, and in July 1939 the Olympic Committee decided to hold the Games in London, or not because of the war.

The two world wars have created some of the darkest memories in the history of the Olympic Movement. In addition, the Olympics have not been suspended, and it can be said that the cancellation of the Olympics must have occurred when the world has encountered a huge crisis.

After World War II, the 1948 London Olympics brought the Olympic Games back to people's lives after 12 years, with 4,062 athletes from 59 countries coming to the stadium and the games being broadcast live on television for the first time - after experiencing trauma, the signal of "moving forward" contained in sports was finally transmitted to human society.

Yes, war is not allowed during the Olympics.

1. Ancient Greece was a martial nation, and at that time, the ancient Greek nation was a small scattered country with city-states as a unit. Separate governments, annexation and contention between city-states are common, and there is no unified monarch. Years of war require soldiers who are physically strong and agile.

Therefore, assembly and competition was a means invented by the monarch at that time to train qualified soldiers. The city-state of Elise occupied Olympia, and the Spartans had been trying to annex the holy land. The city-state of Elise resisted stubbornly, while the Spartans fought for a long time, and the people longed for peace and remembered sacrifices and celebrations.

As a result, in 884 BC, the kings of Elise and Sparta reached an agreement to hold regular assemblies in Olympia (i.e., the Olympic Games) and signed the Sacred Truce.

On October 25, the United Nations held the 36th plenary meeting of the 48th General Assembly, and the participants unanimously adopted the "Olympic Truce" proposal initiated by the International Olympic Committee and signed by all member states of the Olympic Movement, that is, during the Olympic Games and one week before and after the Olympic Games, like the ancient Greeks, all member states will put down their ** and stop war operations, so that people all over the world can celebrate the quadrennial Olympic festival in a peaceful atmosphere. This shows the world that the purpose of the Olympic Movement "for a peaceful and better world" has been widely recognized by the international community, and it has become an important force that cannot be ignored in the new era, promoting the development of the cause of peace and progress of mankind.

It's not that it can't be launched, just politely.

There is no legal compulsion.

For example, the Russo-Georgian War during the 08 Beijing Olympics.

13th Olympic Games London (closed due to World War II) 12th Olympic Games First Tokyo, then Helsinki (closed due to World War II) 6th Olympic Games Berlin (closed due to World War I).

There were three times when the 6th, 12th, and 13th Olympic Games were suspended due to the war.

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Six, ten. 2. The 13th Olympic Games.

Because of the war, the three Olympic Games that were originally scheduled to be held in the year were suspended.

The Sixth Summer Olympics was originally scheduled to be held in Berlin, the capital of Germany, in 1916, but in order to comply with the purpose of the International Olympic Committee and condemn Germany's aggression, the International Olympic Committee headed by Coubertin decided to cancel the Olympic Games. According to the old system of the ancient Olympic Games, all the Olympic Games that could not be held for some reason would also occupy a page in the history of the Olympic Games, so the next Olympic Games could not be held until four years later.

By the time of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the world was in turmoil and war was on the verge of breaking out. However, the IOC is still preparing for the next Olympic Games. During the Berlin Olympics, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) chose Tokyo as the venue for the 12th Olympic Games, which were originally scheduled to take place from 21 September to 6 October 1940.

In 1937, Japan launched a war of aggression against China, and the Japanese Olympic Committee, under pressure from the military, had to declare that Japan could not hold the Olympic Games in 1940. Under these circumstances, the International Olympic Committee decided to relocate the Games to Helsinki, which would run from 20 July to 4 August 1940. Due to the outbreak of the Second World War, Finland notified the IOC on 1 January 1940 of the renunciation of the hosting rights.

Then, the war spread across Europe and around the world, and the 12th Olympic Games were aborted.

On the eve of World War II, the IOC also selected the site for the 13th Olympic Games. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) London meeting took place from 6 to 9 July 1939, but the Games could not be held due to the war.

【Venues of previous Summer Olympic Games】 Session Venue Year 1st: Athens Greece 1896 2nd: France 1900 3rd:

St. Louis USA 1904 4th: London Great Britain 1908 5th: Stockholm Sweden 1912 6th:

Berlin Germany 1916 (not due to the First World War) 7th: Antwerp Belgium 1920 8th: Paris France 1924 9th:

Amsterdam Netherlands 1928 10th: Los Angeles USA 1932 11th: Berlin Germany 1936 12th:

Helsinki Finland 1940 (not held due to the Second World War) 13th: London Great Britain 1944 (not held due to the Second World War) 14th: London Great Britain 1948 15th edition:

Helsinki Finland 1952 16th: Melbourne Australia 1956 17th: Rome Italy 1960 18th:

Tokyo Japan 1964 Nineteenth: Mexico City Mexico 1968 Twentieth Session: Munich Former West Germany 1972 Twenty-first:

Montreal Canada 1976 XXII: Moscow Former Soviet Union 1980 XXIII: Los Angeles USA 1984 XXIV:

Seoul (now Seoul) South Korea 1988 25th: Barcelona Spain 1992 26th: Atlanta USA 1996 27th:

Sydney Australia 2000 28th Session: Athens Greece 2004 29th Session: Beijing China 2008 30th Session:

London, UK, 2012

There have been three editions of the Olympic Games that have been cancelled due to World War II – the 6th in 1916 in Berlin, Germany (cancelled due to the First World War);

12th 1940 Tokyo, Japan, then Helsinki, Finland (suspended due to World War II);

13th 1944 London, England (discontinued due to World War II).