Cortina 1944 Winter Olympics Cancelled
Cortina, Italy. Winter Games awarded in 1939, erased by world war
Overview
The IOC awarded the 1944 Winter Games to the Dolomites town of Cortina in June 1939, three months before war broke out. No edition of that Olympiad was ever staged. Cortina finally hosted in 1956 and returns as co host with Milan in 2026.
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