1940 Winter Olympics
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The anticipated V Olympic Winter Games were cancelled due to World War II. First Sapporo, Japan was selected to be the host of the Winter Olympics 1940, but Japan had to give the Games back to the IOC, when the Second Sino-Japanese War broke out in 1937.
The IOC decided to give the Winter Olympics to St Moritz, Switzerland, but due controversies between the Swiss organisation team and IOC the Games had been withdrawn again.
Therefore the IOC gave the Winter Olympics 1940 to Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany again - three months later World War II broke out and the Winter Games were cancelled in November 1939.
St Moritz eventually held the 1948 Winter Olympics and Sapporo eventually held the 1972 Winter Olympics.
The V Olympic Winter Games were finally held in 1948.
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See also
- 1940 Winter Olympics
- 1940 Summer Olympics
- 1944 Winter Olympics
- 1944 Summer Olympics
