1944 Summer Olympics: History and Background
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, Un
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, United Kingdom. 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 interruption of the Olympic Games, the next being the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, which was delayed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This was the latest Olympic cycle in which the Games were cancelled outright and skipped.
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