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National Olympic Committees select from within their national territory cities to put forward bids to host an Olympic Games. The staging of the Paralympic Games is automatically included in the bid.^[1] Since the creation of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1894, which successfully appropriated the name of the Ancient Greek Olympics to create a modern sporting event, interested cities have rivalled for selection as host of the Summer or Winter Olympic Games.

What follows is a list of the cities that have bid to host any of the Summer and Winter Olympics. 50 cities (including repeats) have been chosen to host the Olympics since their "rebirth"; two in Eastern Europe, five in East Asia, one in South America, two in Oceania and the remainder in Western Europe and North America. No African, Central American, Central Asian, Middle Eastern, or South Asian city has ever been chosen to host an Olympics.

Typically, the decision is made at an IOC Session approximately seven years prior to the games; for example for the 2016 Summer Olympics were awarded to Rio de Janeiro on 2 October 2009, the 2018 Winter Olympics were awarded to Pyeongchang on 6 July 2011, and the 2020 Summer Olympics were awarded to Tokyo on 7 September 2013. The process for the 2022 Winter Olympics is currently under way and will conclude in 2015 with the selection of the host city.

IOC – IPC co-operation

In June 2001, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) signed an agreement that would ensure that the staging of the Paralympic Games is automatically included in the bid for the Olympic Games.^[1] The agreement came into effect at the 2008 Paralympic Summer Games in Beijing, and the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games in Vancouver. However, the Salt Lake 2002 Organizing Committee (SLOC), was chosen to follow the practice of "one bid, one city" already at the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City, with one Organizing Committee for both Games, which was followed up by the 2004 Games in Athens and Turin in 2006. The agreement was adjusted in 2003. An extension was signed in June 2006.^[1]

Summer Olympics bids

Games	Year	Candidate cities		Non-candidate applicant cities^{[note 1]}	IOC session
Games	Year	Host city	Others	Non-candidate applicant cities^{[note 1]}	IOC session
I	1896	Athens^{[note 2]}	Only Bid		1st Paris (1894-06-23)
II	1900	Paris^{[note 2]}	Only Bid		1st Paris (1894-06-23)
III	1904	Chicago ( St. Louis)^{[note 3]}	Only Bid		4th Paris (22-05-1901)
IV	1908 details	Rome ( London)^{[note 4]}	Berlin Milan		6th London (June, 1904)
V	1912 details	Stockholm	Only Bid		10th Berlin (1909-05-27)
VI	1916 details	Berlin^{[note 5]}	Alexandria Amsterdam Brussels Budapest Cleveland		14th Stockholm (1912-05-27)
VII	1920 details	Antwerp^{[note 6]}	Amsterdam Atlanta Budapest Cleveland Havana Lyon^{[note 7]} Philadelphia		17th Lausanne (1919-04-05)
VIII	1924 details	Paris^{[note 8]}	Amsterdam Barcelona Los Angeles Prague Rome		19th Lausanne (1921-06-02)
IX	1928 details	Amsterdam	Los Angeles		19th Lausanne (1921-06-02)
X	1932 details	Los Angeles	Only Bid		21st Rome (April, 1923)
XI	1936 details	Berlin	Alexandria Barcelona Budapest Buenos Aires Cologne Dublin Frankfurt Helsinki Lausanne Nuremberg Rio de Janeiro Rome		30th Lausanne (1931-05-13)
XII	1940	Tokyo Helsinki^{[note 9]}	Only Bid		35th Berlin (1936-07-31)
XIII	1944	London^{[note 10]}	Athens Budapest Detroit Helsinki Lausanne Montreal Rome		38th London (1939-06-09)
XIV	1948 details	London^{[note 11]}	Baltimore Lausanne Los Angeles Minneapolis Philadelphia		39th Lausanne (September, 1946)
XV	1952 details	Helsinki	Amsterdam Chicago Detroit Los Angeles Minneapolis Philadelphia		40th Stockholm (1947-06-21)
XVI	1956 details	Melbourne Stockholm^{[note 12]}	Buenos Aires Chicago Detroit Los Angeles Mexico City Minneapolis Philadelphia San Francisco		43rd Rome (1949-04-28)
XVII	1960 details	Rome	Brussels Budapest Detroit Lausanne Mexico City Tokyo		50th Paris (1955-06-15)
XVIII	1964 details	Tokyo	Brussels Detroit Vienna		55th Munich (1959-05-26)
XIX	1968 details	Mexico City	Buenos Aires Detroit Lyon		60th Baden-Baden (1963-10-18)
XX	1972 details	Munich	Detroit Madrid Montreal		64th Rome (1966-04-26)
XXI	1976 details	Montreal	Los Angeles Moscow		69th Amsterdam (1970-05-12)
XXII	1980 details	Moscow	Los Angeles		75th Vienna (1974-10-23)
XXIII	1984 details	Los Angeles	Only Bid		80th Athens (1978-05-18)
XXIV	1988 details	Seoul	Nagoya		84th Baden-Baden (1981-09-30)
XXV	1992 details	Barcelona	Amsterdam Belgrade Birmingham Brisbane Paris		91st Lausanne (1986-10-17)
XXVI	1996 details	Atlanta	Athens Belgrade Manchester Melbourne Toronto		96th Tokyo (1990-09-18)
XXVII	2000 details	Sydney	Beijing Berlin Istanbul Manchester	Milan^{[note 13]} Brasília ^{[note 14]} Tashkent^{[note 15]}	101st Monte Carlo (1993-09-23)
XXVIII	2004 details	Athens	Buenos Aires Cape Town Rome Stockholm	Istanbul Lille Rio de Janeiro Saint Petersburg San Juan Seville	106th Lausanne (1997-09-05)
XXIX	2008 details	Beijing	Istanbul Osaka Paris Toronto	Bangkok Cairo Havana Kuala Lumpur Seville	112th Moscow (2001-07-13)
XXX	2012 details	London	Madrid Moscow New York City Paris	Havana Istanbul Leipzig Rio de Janeiro	117th Singapore (2005-07-06)
XXXI	2016 details	Rio de Janeiro	Chicago Madrid Tokyo	Baku Doha Prague	121st Copenhagen (2009-10-02)
XXXII	2020 details	Tokyo	Istanbul Madrid	Rome^{[note 16]} Baku Doha	125th Buenos Aires (2013-09-07)
XXXIII	2024			Boston Rome Hamburg Paris	130th Lima ( Summer 2017)

Winter Olympics bids

Games	Year	Candidate cities		Non-candidate applicant cities^{[note 1]}	IOC Session
Games	Year	Host city	Others	Non-candidate applicant cities^{[note 1]}	IOC Session
I	1924	Chamonix^{[note 17]}	Only Bid		19th Lausanne (1921-06-02)
II	1928 details	St. Moritz	Davos Engelberg		24th Lisbon (1926-05-06)
III	1932 details	Lake Placid^{[note 18]}	Bear Mountain Denver Duluth Minneapolis Montreal Oslo Yosemite Valley		27th Lausanne (1929-04-10)
IV	1936 details	Garmisch-Partenkirchen^{[note 18]}	Montreal St. Moritz		31st Vienna (1933-06-07)
	1940	Sapporo^{[note 18]} St. Moritz^{[note 9]} Garmisch-Partenkirchen^{[note 9]}	Only Bid		36th Warsaw (1937-06-09)
	1944	Cortina d'Ampezzo^{[note 10]}	Montreal Oslo		38th London (1939-06-09)
V	1948 details	St. Moritz^{[note 11]}	Lake Placid		39th Lausanne (September, 1946)
VI	1952 details	Oslo	Cortina d'Ampezzo Lake Placid		40th Stockholm (1947-06-21)
VII	1956 details	Cortina d'Ampezzo	Colorado Springs Lake Placid Montreal		43rd Rome (1949-04-28)
VIII	1960 details	Squaw Valley	Garmisch-Partenkirchen Innsbruck St. Moritz		50th Paris (1955-06-16)
IX	1964 details	Innsbruck	Calgary Lahti		55th Munich (1959-05-26)
X	1968 details	Grenoble	Calgary Lahti Lake Placid Oslo Sapporo		61st Innsbruck (1964-01-28)
XI	1972 details	Sapporo	Banff Lahti Salt Lake City		64th Rome (1966-04-26)
XII	1976 details	Denver ( Innsbruck)^{[note 19]}	Sion Tampere Vancouver-Garibaldi		69th Amsterdam (1970-05-12)
XIII	1980 details	Lake Placid	Vancouver-Garibaldi^{[note 20]}		75th Vienna (1974-10-23)
XIV	1984 details	Sarajevo	Gothenburg Sapporo		80th Athens (1978-05-18)
XV	1988 details	Calgary	Cortina d'Ampezzo Falun		84th Baden-Baden (1981-09-30)
XVI	1992 details	Albertville	Anchorage Berchtesgaden Cortina d'Ampezzo Falun Lillehammer Sofia		91st Lausanne (1986-10-17)
XVII	1994 details	Lillehammer	Anchorage Östersund Sofia		94th Seoul (1988-09-15)
XVIII	1998 details	Nagano	Aosta Jaca Östersund Salt Lake City		97th Birmingham (1991-06-15)
XIX	2002 details	Salt Lake City	Östersund Quebec City Sion	Graz Jaca Poprad-Tatry Sochi Tarvisio	104th Budapest (1995-06-16)
XX	2006 details	Turin	Sion	Helsinki Klagenfurt Poprad-Tatry Zakopane	109th Seoul (1999-06-19)
XXI	2010 details	Vancouver	Bern^{[note 21]} Pyeongchang Salzburg	Andorra la Vella Harbin Jaca Sarajevo	115th Prague (2003-07-02)
XXII	2014 details	Sochi	Pyeongchang Salzburg	Almaty Borjomi Jaca Sofia	119th Guatemala City (2007-07-04)
XXIII	2018 details	Pyeongchang	Annecy Munich		123rd Durban (2011-07-06)
XXIV	2022 details		Almaty Beijing	Kraków^{[note 22]} Lviv<ref group-"note">Lviv withdrew its bid on June 30, 2014</ref> Oslo Stockholm^{[note 23]}	127th Kuala Lumpur (2015-07-31)

Summer Youth Olympics bids

Games	Year	Candidate cities		Non-candidate applicant cities^{[note 1]}	IOC Session
Games	Year	Host city	Others	Non-candidate applicant cities^{[note 1]}	IOC Session
I	2010 details	Singapore	Moscow	Beijing Bangkok Debrecen Guatemala City Kuala Lumpur Poznań Turin	postal vote (2008-02-21)
II	2014 details	Nanjing	Poznań Guadalajara^{[note 24]}	Jakarta	122nd Vancouver (2010-02-10)
III	2018 details	Buenos Aires	Glasgow Medellín	Guadalajara Poznań^{[note 25]} Rotterdam	Extraordinary IOC Session Lausanne (2013-07-04)

Winter Youth Olympics bids

Games	Year	Candidate cities		Non-candidate applicant cities^{[note 1]}	IOC Session
Games	Year	Host city	Others	Non-candidate applicant cities^{[note 1]}	IOC Session
I	2012 details	Innsbruck	Kuopio	Harbin Lillehammer	postal vote (2008-12-12)
II	2016 details	Lillehammer			postal vote ( 2011-12-07)
III	2020 details		Lausanne Brasov		128th Kuala Lumpur ( 2015-07-31)

All-time Summer Olympics bids

Country	City	Bids	Host
Greece	Athens	4 (1896, 1944, 1996, 2004)	2 (1896, 2004)
United States	Detroit	7 (1944, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972)
France	Paris	5 (1900, 1924, 1992, 2008, 2012)	2 ( 1900, 1924)
United States	St. Louis	1 (1904)	1 (1904)
United States	Chicago	4 (1904, 1952, 1956, 2016)	1 (1904)
United Kingdom	London	4 (1908, 1944, 1948, 2012)	4 (1908, 1944, 1948, 2012)
Germany	Berlin	4 (1908, 1916, 1936, 2000)	2 (1916, 1936)
Italy	Milan	2 (1908, 2000)
Italy	Rome	7 (1908, 1924, 1936, 1944, 1960, 2004, 2020)	2 (1908, 1960)
Sweden	Stockholm	3 (1912, 1956, 2004)	2 (1912, 1956)
Egypt	Alexandria	2 (1916, 1936)
Netherlands	Amsterdam	6 (1916, 1920, 1924, 1928, 1952, 1992)	1 (1928)
Belgium	Brussels	3 (1916, 1960, 1964)
Hungary	Budapest	5 (1916, 1920, 1936, 1944, 1960)
United States	Cleveland	2 (1916, 1920)
United States	Atlanta	2 (1920, 1996)	1 (1996)
Belgium	Antwerp	1 (1920)	1 (1920)
Cuba	Havana	3 (1920, 2008, 2012)
France	Lyon	2 (1920, 1968)
United States	Philadelphia	4 (1920, 1948, 1952, 1956)
Spain	Barcelona	3 (1924, 1936, 1992)	1 (1992)
United States	Los Angeles	9 (1924, 1928, 1932, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1976, 1980, 1984)	2 (1932, 1984)
Czech Republic	Prague	2 (1924, 2016)
Argentina	Buenos Aires	4 (1936, 1956, 1968, 2004)
Germany	Cologne	1 (1936)
Germany	Nuremberg	1 (1936)
Switzerland	Lausanne	4 (1936, 1944, 1948, 1960)
Brazil	Rio de Janeiro	4 (1936, 2004, 2012, 2016)	1 (2016)
Finland	Helsinki	4 (1936, 1940, 1944, 1952)	2 (1940, 1952)
Ireland	Dublin	1 (1936)
Germany	Frankfurt	1 (1936)
Japan	Tokyo	5 (1940, 1960, 1964, 2016, 2020)	3 (1940, 1964, 2020)
Canada	Montreal	3 (1944, 1972, 1976)	1 (1976)
United States	Minneapolis	3 (1948, 1952, 1956)
United States	Baltimore	1 (1948)
Mexico	Mexico City	3 (1956, 1960, 1968)	1 (1968)
Australia	Melbourne	2 (1956, 1996)	1 (1956)
United States	San Francisco	1 (1956)
Austria	Vienna	1 (1964)
Germany	Munich	1 (1972)	1 (1972)
Spain	Madrid	4 (1972, 2012, 2016, 2020)
Russia	Moscow	3 (1976, 1980, 2012)	1 (1980)
South Korea	Seoul	1 (1988)	1 (1988)
Japan	Nagoya	1 (1988)
United Kingdom	Birmingham	1 (1992)
Serbia	Belgrade	2 (1992, 1996)
Australia	Brisbane	1 (1992)
United Kingdom	Manchester	2 (1996, 2000)
Canada	Toronto	2 (1996, 2008)
China	Beijing	2 (2000, 2008)	1 (2008)
Turkey	Istanbul	5 (2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2020)
Australia	Sydney	1 (2000)	1 (2000)
Brazil	Brasília	1 (2000)
Uzbekistan	Tashkent	1 (2000)
South Africa	Cape Town	1 (2004)
France	Lille	1 (2004)
Russia	Saint Petersburg	1 (2004)
Puerto Rico	San Juan	1 (2004)
Spain	Seville	2 (2004, 2008)
Japan	Osaka	1 (2008)
Thailand	Bangkok	1 (2008)
Egypt	Cairo	1 (2008)
Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur	1 (2008)
United States	New York City	1 (2012)
Germany	Leipzig	1 (2012)
Azerbaijan	Baku	2 (2016, 2020)
Qatar	Doha	2 (2016, 2020)

Total bids by country

Country	Bids
Argentina	4 (1936, 1956, 1968, 2004)
Australia	4 (1956, 1992, 1996, 2000)
Austria	1 (1964)
Azerbaijan	2 (2016, 2020)
Belgium	4 (1916, 1920, 1960, 1964)
Brazil	5 (1936, 2000, 2004, 2012, 2016)
Canada	5 (1944, 1972, 1976, 1996, 2008)
China	2 (2000, 2008)
Cuba	3 (1920, 2008, 2012)
Czech Republic	2 (1924, 2016)
Egypt	3 (1916, 1936, 2008)
Finland	4 (1936, 1940, 1944, 1952)
France	8 (1900, 1920, 1924, 1968, 1992, 2004, 2008, 2012)
Germany	9 (1908, 1916, 1936 (x4), 1972, 2000, 2012)
Greece	4 (1896, 1944, 1996, 2004)
Hungary	5 (1916, 1920, 1936, 1944, 1960)
Ireland	1 (1936)
Italy	9 (1908 (x2), 1924, 1936, 1944, 1960, 2000, 2004, 2020)
Japan	7 (1940, 1960, 1964, 1988, 2008, 2016, 2020)
Malaysia	1 (2008)
Mexico	3 (1956, 1960, 1968)
Netherlands	6 (1916, 1920, 1924, 1928, 1952, 1992)
Puerto Rico	1 (2004)
Qatar	2 (2016, 2020)
Russia	4 (1976, 1980, 2004, 2012)
Serbia	2 (1992, 1996)
South Africa	1 (2004)
South Korea	1 (1988)
Spain	9 (1924, 1936, 1972, 1992, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020)
Sweden	3 (1912, 1956, 2004)
Switzerland	4 (1936, 1944, 1948, 1960)
Thailand	1 (2008)
Turkey	5 (2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2020)
United Kingdom	7 (1908, 1944, 1948, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2012)
United States	36 (1904 (x2), 1916, 1920 (x3), 1924, 1928, 1932, 1944 (x4), 1952 (x5), 1956 (x6), 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1996, 2012, 2016)
Uzbekistan	1 (2000)

All-time Winter Olympics bids

Country	City	Bids
France	Chamonix	1 (1924)
Switzerland	St. Moritz	5 (1928, 1936, 1940, 1948, 1960)
Switzerland	Davos	1 (1928)
Switzerland	Engelberg	1 (1928)
United States	Lake Placid	6 (1932, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1968, 1980)
United States	Bear Mountain	1 (1932)
United States	Denver	2 (1932, 1976)
United States	Duluth	1 (1932)
United States	Minneapolis	1 (1932)
Canada	Montreal	4 (1932, 1936, 1944, 1956)
Norway	Oslo	5 (1932, 1944, 1952, 1968, 2022)
United States	Yosemite Valley	1 (1932)
Germany	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	3 (1936, 1940, 1960)
Japan	Sapporo	4 (1940, 1968, 1972, 1984)
Italy	Cortina d'Ampezzo	5 (1944, 1952, 1956, 1988, 1992)
United States	Colorado Springs	1 (1956)
United States	Squaw Valley	1 (1960)
Austria	Innsbruck	3 (1960, 1964, 1976)
Canada	Calgary	4 (1964, 1968, 1972, 1988)
Finland	Lahti	3 (1964, 1968, 1972)
France	Grenoble	1 (1968)
United States	Salt Lake City	3 (1972, 1998, 2002)
Switzerland	Sion	3 (1976, 2002, 2006)
Finland	Tampere	1 (1976)
Canada	Vancouver	3 (1976, 1980, 2010)
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Sarajevo	2 (1984, 2010)
Sweden	Gothenburg	1 (1984)
Sweden	Falun	2 (1988, 1992)
France	Albertville	1 (1992)
United States	Anchorage	2 (1992, 1994)
Germany	Berchtesgaden	1 (1992)
Norway	Lillehammer	2 (1992, 1994)
Bulgaria	Sofia	3 (1992, 1994, 2014)
Sweden	Östersund	3 (1994, 1998, 2002)
Japan	Nagano	1 (1998)
Italy	Aosta	1 (1998)
Spain	Jaca	4 (1998, 2002, 2010, 2014)
Canada	Quebec City	1 (2002)
Austria	Graz	1 (2002)
Slovakia	Poprad	2 (2002, 2006)
Russia	Sochi	2 (2002, 2014)
Italy	Tarvisio	1 (2002)
Italy	Turin	1 (2006)
Finland	Helsinki	1 (2006)
Austria	Klagenfurt	1 (2006)
Poland	Zakopane	1 (2006)
Switzerland	Bern	1 (2010)
South Korea	Pyeongchang	3 (2010, 2014, 2018)
Austria	Salzburg	2 (2010, 2014)
Andorra	Andorra la Vella	1 (2010)
China	Harbin	1 (2010)
Kazakhstan	Almaty	2 (2014, 2022)
Georgia	Borjomi	1 (2014)
France	Annecy	1 (2018)
Germany	Munich	1 (2018)
Ukraine	Lviv	1 (2022)
China	Beijing	1 (2022)
Poland	Kraków	1 (2022)
Sweden	Stockholm	1 (2022)

Total bids by country

Country	Bids
Andorra	1 (2010)
Austria	7 (1960, 1964, 1976, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014)
Bosnia and Herzegovina	2 (1984, 2010)
Bulgaria	3 (1992, 1994, 2014)
Canada	13 (1932, 1936, 1944, 1956, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1988, 2002, 2010)
China	2 (2010, 2022)
Finland	5 (1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 2006)
France	4 (1924, 1968, 1992, 2018)
Georgia	1 (2014)
Germany	5 (1936, 1940, 1960, 1992, 2018)
Italy	8 (1944, 1952, 1956, 1988, 1992, 1998, 2002, 2006)
Japan	5 (1940, 1968, 1972, 1984, 1998)
Kazakhstan	2 (2014, 2022)
Norway	7 (1932, 1944, 1952, 1968, 1992, 1994, 2022)
Poland	2 (2006, 2022)
Russia	2 (2002, 2014)
Slovakia	2 (2002, 2006)
South Korea	3 (2010, 2014, 2018)
Spain	4 (1998, 2002, 2010, 2014)
Sweden	7(1984, 1988, 1992, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2022)
Switzerland	11 (1928 (x3), 1936, 1940, 1948, 1960, 1976, 2002, 2006, 2010)
Ukraine	1 (2022)
United States	19 (1932 (x6), 1948, 1952, 1956 (x2), 1960, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1992, 1994, 1998, 2002)

All-time Summer Youth Olympics bids

Country	City	Bids
Singapore	Singapore	1 (2010)
Russia	Moscow	1 (2010)
Greece	Athens	1 (2010)
Thailand	Bangkok	1 (2010)
Italy	Turin	1 (2010)
Hungary	Debrecen	1 (2010)
Guatemala	Guatemala City	1 (2010)
Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur	1 (2010)
Poland	Poznań	3 (2010, 2014, 2018)
China	Nanjing	1 (2014)
Mexico	Guadalajara	2 (2014, 2018)
Argentina	Buenos Aires	1 (2018)
Great Britain	Glasgow	1 (2018)
Colombia	Medellín	1 (2018)
Netherlands	Rotterdam	1 (2018)
Indonesia	Jakarta	1 (2014)

All-time Winter Youth Olympics bids

Country	City	Bids
Austria	Innsbruck	1 (2012)
Finland	Kuopio	1 (2012)
China	Harbin	1 (2012)
Norway	Lillehammer	2 (2012, 2016)
Switzerland	Lausanne	1 (2020)
Romania	Brasov	1 (2020)

Combined total bids by country

Olympic Games

Country	Bids
Andorra	1 (1 Winter)
Argentina	4 (4 Summer)
Australia	4 (4 Summer)
Austria	8 (1 Summer, 7 Winter)
Azerbaijan	2 (2 Summer)
Belgium	4 (4 Summer)
Bosnia and Herzegovina	2 (2 Winter)
Brazil	5 (5 Summer)
Bulgaria	3 (3 Winter)
Canada	17 (5 Summer, 12 Winter)
China	4 (2 Summer, 2 Winter)
Cuba	3 (3 Summer)
Czech Republic	2 (2 Summer)
Egypt	3 (3 Summer)
Finland	9 (4 Summer, 5 Winter)
France	12 (8 Summer, 4 Winter)
Georgia	1 (1 Winter)
Germany	14 (9 Summer, 5 Winter)
Greece	4 (4 Summer)
Hungary	5 (5 Summer)
Ireland	1 (1 Summer)
Italy	17 (9 Summer, 8 Winter)
Japan	12 (7 Summer, 5 Winter)
Kazakhstan	2 (2 Winter)
Malaysia	1 (1 Summer)
Mexico	3 (3 Summer)
Netherlands	6 (6 Summer)
Norway	6 (6 Winter)
Poland	2 (2 Winter)
Puerto Rico	1 (1 Summer)
Qatar	2 (2 Summer)
Russia	6 (4 Summer, 2 Winter)
Serbia	2 (2 Summer)
Slovakia	2 (2 Winter)
South Africa	1 (1 Summer)
South Korea	4 (1 Summer, 3 Winter)
Spain	13 (9 Summer, 4 Winter)
Sweden	10 (3 Summer, 7 Winter)
Switzerland	15 (4 Summer, 11 Winter)
Thailand	1 (1 Summer)
Turkey	5 (5 Summer)
Ukraine	1 (1 Winter)
United Kingdom	7 (7 Summer)
United States	55 (36 Summer, 19 Winter)
Uzbekistan	1 (1 Summer)

Youth Olympic Games

Country	Bids
Argentina	1 (1 Summer)
Austria	1 (1 Winter)
China	2 (1 Summer, 1 Winter)
Colombia	1 (1 Summer)
Finland	1 (1 Winter)
Greece	1 (1 Summer)
Guatemala	1 (1 Summer)
Hungary	1 (1 Summer)
Indonesia	1 (1 Summer)
Italy	1 (1 Summer)
Malaysia	1 (1 Summer)
Mexico	2 (2 Summer)
Netherlands	1 (1 Summer)
Norway	1 (1 Winter)
Poland	3 (3 Summer)
Romania	1 (1 Winter)
Russia	1 (1 Summer)
Singapore	1 (1 Summer)
Switzerland	1 (1 Winter)
Thailand	1 (1 Summer)
United Kingdom	1 (1 Summer)

Trivia

London is the only city to have bid more than once and still hold a 100% record.
Detroit has had the most bids whilst failing to win the rights to host the games once.
Hungary and Turkey share the most bids in the Summer Games that have failed to win the rights to host the games at least once.
Sweden has had the most bids in the Winter Games that have failed to win the rights to host the games at least once.

Notes

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Those bids which were not shortlisted for the second and final bidding phase.
↑ 2.0 2.1 At the first Session of the International Olympic Committee, in 1894, Athens was chosen to stage the first Olympic Games of the Modern Era, in 1896, as an honour to the birthplace of the Ancient Olympics. Paris was chosen as the site for the II Olympiad, in 1900, despite Pierre de Coubertin's wish that Paris would celebrate the first Games. [Athens 1896. Games (International Olympic Committee). Archived from the original on 6 April 2007. Retrieved 2007-04-09. ][ Factsheet – The Olympic Movement (PDF). International Olympic Committee. 2007-02-07. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 April 2007. Retrieved 2007-04-09. ]
↑ Chicago was voted the host city of the III Olympiad, but due to pressure from the city of St. Louis, which was staging the World's Fair on the same year, the Games were transferred to this city. ["1904 Summer Olympics: St. Louis, Missouri". Hickok Sports. Retrieved 2007-04-09. ]
↑ Rome was the choice of the IOC, but the 1906 eruption of Mount Vesuvius forced the Italians to return the Games to the IOC, which reattributed them to London. ["1908 Olympics: London, England". Hickok Sports. Archived from the original on 13 April 2007. Retrieved 2007-04-09. ]
↑ The Games were cancelled due to the ongoing World War I.
↑ Antwerp was awarded with the Olympic Games as a compensation and to honour the Belgians who fought, suffered and died during the war. ["Antwerp 1920". Games. International Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 17 April 2007. Retrieved 2007-04-09. ]
↑ Lyon withdrew before the final vote.
↑ Paris got the Games for the second time to fulfill Pierre de Coubertin's wish to see a successful Olympics in his country, erasing the flaws of the 1900 Olympics, before he retired from the IOC. ["1924 Olympics: Paris, France". Hickok Sports. Retrieved 2007-04-09. ]
↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Due to the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Japan relinquished its hosting rights to both the Summer and Winter Games. On 1938-07-15, the IOC relocated the Summer Games to Helsinki and the Winter Games to St. Moritz. Finland's invasion by the Soviet Union, in 1939, and the ensuing World War II forced the IOC to cancel the 1940 Summer Games. ["1948 Olympics: London, England". Hickok Sports. Archived from the original on 14 April 2007. Retrieved 2007-04-10. ] Disagreements with the Swiss officials, concerning the entry of professional skiers in the Games, prompted the IOC to reattribute them for the second consecutive time to Garmisch-Partenkirchen, on 1939-06-09. They were cancelled as well because of the war. ["St. Moritz 1948". Games. International Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 13 March 2007. Retrieved 2007-04-09. ]
↑ 10.0 10.1 The Games were cancelled because of the ongoing World War II.
↑ 11.0 11.1 Selected without election, after the end of the World War II.
↑ Australian's strict quarantine laws concerning the entry of foreign horses made it impossible for the equestrian events to be held within the Games period. In May, 1954, during the 49th IOC Session in Athens, Stockholm was chosen to stage what would be known as "Equestrian Games of the XVIth Olympiad". ["Melbourne 1956". International Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 19 May 2007. Retrieved 2007-04-10. ][The Official Report of the Organizing Committee for the Equestrian Games of the XVIth Olympiad (PDF) (in Swedish and English). Organizing Committee for the Equestrian Games of the XVIth Olympiad. Retrieved 2007-04-10. ]
↑ bid cancelled
↑ bid cancelled following IOC inspection
↑ bid cancelled
↑ bid cancelled due to lack of Support from Italian Government
↑ Chamonix was chosen by the IOC to stage the "International Sports Week 1924", which would later be considered the First Olympic Winter Games. ["Chamonix 1924". Games. International Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 5 March 2007. Retrieved 2007-04-08. ]
↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 Until the 1938 revision of the Olympic Charter, the IOC rules stated that the host country of the Summer Olympics took priority if it wished to host the Winter Olympics.
↑ Denver gave up its hosting rights because a state referendum prohibited allocation of public funds to support the Games. The Austrian city of Innsbruck, which had hosted the Games twelve years earlier, stepped in to replace Denver. ["Innsbruck 1976". Games. International Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 23 June 2011. Retrieved 2011-06-23. ]
↑ Vancouver-Garibaldi bid was withdrawn on 1974-10-04, leaving Lake Placid as the only bidder.
↑ Bern withdrew its bid on 2002-09-27, following a negative referendum outcome over the cost of staging an Olympic Games. ["Bern Officially Withdraws Bid". GamesBids. 2002-09-27. Retrieved 2007-04-09. ]
↑ Krakóww withdrew its bid on May 2014, following a negative referendum outcome
↑ Stockholm withdrew its bid on 17 January 2014
↑ bid withdrawn for limited time and financial reasons
↑ bid withdrawn for financial reasons

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 IPC-IOC Co-operation, The official website of the International Paralympic Committee

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