Category:Cancelled Olympic Games

Olympic Games that were scheduled but cancelled, in all cases due to World War I (1916) or World War II (1940 and 1944).

On 24 March 2020, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced that he and International Olympic Committee's president Thomas Bach had agreed to postpone the 2020 Summer Olympics, pending approval by the IOC, due to the rapidly spreading COVID-19 pandemic. The following week on 30 March 2020 it was announced that the Games, which had been previously scheduled to start in Tokyo on 24 July 2020, were officially postponed to 23 July 2021. Many other sports events were also cancelled or postponed globally due to the pandemic.