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1940 Tokyo: The Olympiad that Never Was

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

Mark Schreiber
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Abstract

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In 1936, after the Berlin Olympics concluded, Tokyo won the right to host the 1940 Olympics. The sequence of events that led to the 1940 games' forfeiture can be said to have begun on July 7, 1937, when Japanese and Chinese troops clashed at the Marco Polo Bridge southwest of Beijing. The IOC's initial reaction was to transfer the 1940 games to Helsinki; but with Germany's invasion of Poland in September 1939, the ‘missing Olympics’ were cancelled for good.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 18 , Issue 5 , March 2020 , e10
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