1944 Winter Olympics

V Olympic Winter Games
Host city Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy (cancelled due to World War II)
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The 1944 Winter Olympics, which would have been officially known as the V Olympic Winter Games (after the cancellation of 1940's V Olympic Winter Games) (Italian: V Giochi olimpici invernali), were to have been celebrated in February 1944 in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. Cortina d'Ampezzo had been awarded the games in June 1939, but with the onset of World War II, the 1944 Winter Olympics were cancelled in 1941.

The V Olympic Winter Games eventually took place in St. Moritz, Switzerland, in 1948; Cortina d'Ampezzo hosted the 1956 Winter Olympics.

See also

Preceded by
Sapporo
Winter Olympics
Cortina d'Ampezzo

Olympic Winter Games (1944)
Succeeded by
St. Moritz
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