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1944 Winter Olympics

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Multisport event, cancelled in World War II

IV Olympic Winter Games
Location	Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
Winter ← Garmisch 1936 ←Sapporo 1940 St. Moritz 1948 → Summer ← Berlin 1936 ←Helsinki 1940 London 1948 → London 1944 →

The1944 Winter Olympics, officially known as theV Olympic Winter Games (Italian:V Giochi olimpici invernali) after the cancellation of1940 Winter Olympics, were a planned internationalmulti-sport event scheduled to have been held in February 1944 inCortina d'Ampezzo,Italy. The games were cancelled because ofWorld War II alongside the1944 Summer Olympics inLondon,Great Britain, and were the fourth games to be cancelled due to war.^[1]

The games eventually took place inSt. Moritz,Switzerland in1948. Cortina d'Ampezzo would later host the1956 Winter Olympics, and will co-host the2026 Winter Olympics withMilan.

^Sandomir, Richard (August 27, 2004)."TV SPORTS; A Nazi Prison Camp Became A Symbol of Olympic Spirit".The New York Times. RetrievedOctober 31, 2025.

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Preceded by Sapporo/Garmisch-Partenkirchen cancelled due to World War II	V Olympic Winter Games Cortina d'Ampezzo 1944 (abandoned)	Succeeded by St. Moritz

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