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Why haven't Asia hosted the Olympics?

Updated: 8/21/2019
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Countries in Asia have hosted the Olympics a number of times and will so again in the future:


  • China 2008, 2022(*)
  • Japan 1940(**), 1964, 1972, 1998, 2020(*)
  • South Korea 1988, 2018(*)

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(*) Future proposed dates.

(**) The 1940 Summer Olympics was to be hosted in Tokyo, Japan but was canceled due to the outbreak of World War II.


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