List of Olympic Games Host Cities: Summer and Winter Olympic Venues, Locations, History since 1896.

List of Summer and Winter Olympic Games Host Cities: Here is a Complete list of the cities that have hosted the Every summer and winter Olympic Games since 1896 when the modern Olympics started. Since then, the summer and winter games have usually been held After every four years.

The summer and winter games typically take place in even-numbered years.

The first modern Olympics was held in Athens, Greece, in 1896. Since then, the Olympic Games have been held more than 50 times across the European, Asian, and North American Cities.

Although the first Olympic events were modest affairs, today they are multibillion-dollar events that require years of planning and politicking.

How an Olympic City Is Chosen for Summer & Winter Games.

The Winter and Summer Olympics are governed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). This multinational organization chooses the host cities.

Nine years prior to the Olympic games, Host cities can start contacting the IOC to start the process. Each delegation must accomplish a set of objectives over the next three years to show that they have (or will have) the facilities and funding necessary to host an effective Olympics.

The IOC's member states cast ballots for the finalist at the conclusion of the three-year period. However, not all cities that are interested in hosting the games advance this far in the competition.

For instance, the IOC eliminated two of the five cities vying to host the 2020 Summer Olympics, Doha, Qatar, and Baku, Azerbaijan, midway through the selection process. Only Istanbul, Madrid, and Paris advanced; Paris took first place.

List of Summer Olympic Games host cities, from Athens 1896 to Los Angeles 2028.

Here is a list of all the host cities of the Summer Olympic Games since the first modern Olympics in Athens 1896. The current Olympic Games host city is Tokyo in 2021.

The following Olympic Games will be in Paris in 2024, and Los Angeles in 2028. See also the discussion about the host cities.

1896: Athens, Greece

1900: Paris, France

1904: St. Louis, United States

1908: London, United Kingdom

1912: Stockholm, Sweden

1916: Scheduled for Berlin, Germany

1920: Antwerp, Belgium

1924: Paris, France

1928: Amsterdam, Netherlands

1932: Los Angeles, United States

1936: Berlin, Germany

1940: Scheduled for Tokyo, Japan

1944: Scheduled for London, United Kingdom

1948: London, United Kingdom

1952: Helsinki, Finland

1956: Melbourne, Australia

1960: Rome, Italy

1964: Tokyo, Japan

1968: Mexico City, Mexico

1972: Munich, West Germany (now Germany)

1976: Montreal, Canada

1980: Moscow, U.S.S.R. (now Russia)

1984: Los Angeles, United States

1988: Seoul, South Korea

1992: Barcelona, Spain

1996: Atlanta, United States

2000: Sydney, Australia

2004: Athens, Greece

2008: Beijing, China

2012: London, United Kingdom

2016: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2020: Tokyo, Japan

2024: Paris, France

2028: Los Angeles, California, United States

2032: Brisbane, Australia

London is the only city to host the Summer Games three times: 1908, 1948 and 2012. In 2024, Paris will host the summer Olympics for the third time, and in 2028 LA will host the Games for the third time too.

The 2028 Games will also be the fifth time the Games have been hosted in the USA, though in three different cities.

List of Winter Olympic Games Sites, venues: From Chamonix 1924 to Milan Cortina 2026

The Winter Games has been held in the USA four times (the most of any country): 1932, 1960, 1980 and 2002. The US has also hosted the Summer Games four times (1904, 1932, 1984 and 1996).

France has hosted the Winter Games three times (1924, 1968 and 1992), and the summer games twice (1900 and 1924).

1924: Chamonix, France

1928: St. Moritz, Switzerland

1932: Lake Placid, New York, United States

1936: Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany

1940: Scheduled for Sapporo, Japan

1944: Scheduled for Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy

1948: St. Moritz, Switzerland

1952: Oslo, Norway

1956: Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy

1960: Squaw Valley, California, United States

1964: Innsbruck, Austria

1968: Grenoble, France

1972: Sapporo, Japan

1976: Innsbruck, Austria

1980: Lake Placid, New York, United States

1984: Sarajevo, Yugoslavia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina)

1988: Calgary, Alberta, Canada

1992: Albertville, France

1994: Lillehammer, Norway

1998: Nagano, Japan

2002: Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

2006: Torino (Turin), Italy

2010: Vancouver, Canada

2014: Sochi, Russia

2018: Pyeongchang, South Korea

2022: Beijing, China

2026: Milan Cortina, Italy

2023: TBD

Olympics Games Host Cities, Fun Facts, Records, Trivia.

The Olympics have been held in more than 40 cities since the first modern games were held. Here is some more trivia about the Olympics and their hosts.
The first modern Summer Olympics in Athens in 1896 took place just four years after Frenchman Pierre de Coubertin proposed them. The event featured only about 250 athletes from 13 nations competing in nine sports.
The first Winter Olympics was held in Chamonix, France, in 1924. Sixteen nations competed that year, with just five sports total.
The Summer and Winter Games were held every four years in the same year. In 1992, the IOC altered the schedule so that they would alternate every two years.
Seven cities have hosted the Olympic Games more than once: Athens; Paris; London; St. Moritz, Switzerland; Lake Placid, New York; Los Angeles; and Innsbruck, Austria.
London is the only city to have hosted the Olympics three times. Paris will become the next city to do so when it hosts the 2024 Summer Games.
Beijing, which hosted the Summer Olympics in 2008, will host the Winter Olympics in 2020, making it the first city to do so.
The U.S. has hosted eight Olympic Games, more than any other nation. It will next host the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles in 2028.
Brazil is the only nation in South America to have hosted the Olympics. Africa is the only continent not to have hosted the Games.
World War I prevented the 1916 Olympics from being held in Berlin.
World War II forced the cancellation of Olympics scheduled for Tokyo; London; Sapporo, Japan; and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.
The 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, which cost an estimated $51 billion, was the most expensive Games of all time.