Theodosius I thought the games were a public nuisance and considered the games pagan (non religious).
suck it!!
Other sporting events continued.
The 2008 Olympics were not cancelled.
Start at 776 BCE to the year you want and find out how many by dividing by 4.
No. But it has been cancelled because of the war.
The 1940 and 1944 Olympics were cancelled due to World War II.
Five. The 1916 Summer Olympics were cancelled due to World War I. The 1940 Winter Olympics, 1940 Summer Olympics, 1944 Winter Olympics, and 1944 Summer Olympics were cancelled due to World War II.
No, the 1936 Summer Olympics were held in Berlin, Germany. The 1940 and 1944 Summer and Winter Olympics were cancelled due to World War II.
World War I caused the 1916 Olympics to be cancelled and World War II cancelled the 1940 and 1944 Olympics.
It could just be because they already had all of is planned out and everything... They already had made it official, that the Olympics in 1980 would be the 22nd Olympics, the Olympics in 1884 would be the 23rd Olympics ect... They didn't want to break that tradition.
1908 and 1948. They would have held the 1944 games, but they were cancelled.
The Olympics were cancelled in 1916 due to World War I.