The World Cup has been held in North America 3 times (Mexico twice, USA once), and South America 4 times (Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina, Chile).
If you don't count Mexico as South America, then it's four. 1930, 1954, 1962, 1978
19 times
The Rio de Janeiro Olympics in 2016 will be the first ever Olympics held in South America.
The world cup soccer has been held 21 times.
Once in 2002
Russia has qualified for two FIFA World Cups. Those years were 1994 and 2002.
The Summer Olympics have been held every Leap Year from 1900 up to 2012, except there were no Games held during the 2 World Wars, that was in 1916,1940 & 1944. 3 times altogether.
Brazil has been in every 16 world cups that were held.
Just once, in 1966.
France held the world cup only once in 1998.
It has been held for thousands of years.
world war 1,2