1944_Winter_Olympics
1944 Winter Olympics
Canceled multi-sport event in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
The 1944 Winter Olympics, officially known as the V Olympic Winter Games (Italian: V Giochi olimpici invernali) after the cancellation of 1940 Winter Olympics, were a planned international multi-sport event scheduled to have been held in February 1944 in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. The games were canceled because of World War II alongside the 1944 Summer Olympics in London, England, and were the fourth games to be canceled due to war.
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The games eventually took place in St. Moritz, Switzerland in 1948. Cortina d'Ampezzo would later host the 1956 Winter Olympics, and will co-host the 2026 Winter Olympics with Milan.
