1915
All the following games were cancelled due to world wars --1916 Summer Olympics --1940 Summer Olympics --1940 Winter Olympics --1944 Summer Olympics --1944 Winter Olympics
The 2008 Olympics in Beijing will be called the 29th Olympiad. They are actually numbered as if they were held every four years. For example, the cancelled 1916 Olympics would have been the 6th, but the 1920 Olympics were called the 7th. The Olympics were skipped in 1916, 1940 and 1944 due to the wars. So the 29th Olympiad will really be the 26th modern Olympics.
because my nan took over...
Yeah. =[
Athens
I really hate to break this to you and everything... But I'm only 12 years old, and without researching this or anything, I'm just assuming that they were cancelled due to the world wars... Seriously...who'd want to go to the Olympics during a World War?
Wars were stopped during the Olympics because the Greeks wanted to honor Zeus(the Greek god of gods) with peace.
They paused.
The Olympic Games caused a pause in wars.
The most important thing in the olympics, is the athletes because without them, there wouldn't be any olympics.
we did not compete naked but they did and we did not have to stop wars to be in them and women were not aloud to be in the greek Olympics or even see them