Inside The Games

Tokyo 1940: A look back at the Olympic Games that never happened

When the Paralympic Games close a week from now in Rio, the Japanese flag will be raised and all eyes will look towards Tokyo. They were doing the same exactly 80 years ago when the Berlin Olympics of ...
philstar.com

Tokyo 1940: The Missing Olympics

MANILA, Philippines — The 2020 Tokyo Olympics are in danger of being canceled or postponed, with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic affecting the globe. But the International Olympic Committee ...
CNN

The ‘Lost Games:’ When the Olympics are stopped by extraordinary world events

The significance of 1936 Berlin During the conclusion of the 1936 Olympics, the Games that had been the Nazi power show, the IOC awarded 1940 to Tokyo, with the Japanese capital receiving 37 votes to ...
Inside The Games

Philip Barker: Olympics in Tokyo suffer a snag not for the first time

As the Olympic world hurtled towards the postponement this week, Japanese Deputy Prime Minister Tarō Asō spoke of a 40-year Olympic cycle. He recalled the Moscow 1980 Games, when Japan joined a ...
Orange County Register

Warner: Tokyo 1940 and other ‘lost Olympics’

Next month, the International Olympic Committee will award the 2020 Summer Games to one of three cities. Tokyo, Istanbul and Madrid are the finalists, and the Japanese capital seems to be the ...
The New York Times

When the Tokyo Olympics Went Missing

The 1940 Games, scheduled for Japan, were returned to the I.O.C. because of a war against China and political infighting, rather than a pandemic. By Ken Belson TOKYO — The exhibits in the Japan ...
朝日新聞社

VOX POPULI: Dark clouds once again hover over Tokyo Olympics, echoing 1940 bid

Tempers flared at the International Olympic Committee Session held in Cairo in spring 1938. The Tokyo Olympics were only two years away, but the military was intensifying its campaign in China.
Sydney Morning Herald

Travails of Tokyo 2020 recall the lost Games of 1940

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. With the future of the rescheduled 2020 Tokyo Olympics in doubt, it is interesting to consider the parallels with Australian athletes of ...
The Jamaica Observer

Tokyo 1940 — the Games that became the ‘Missing Olympics’

Tokyo, Japan (AFP) — The decision to postpone the 2020 Olympics over the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is unprecedented, but in some ways Japan has been here before — the cancelled ...
CNN

The ‘Lost Games:’ When the Olympics are stopped by extraordinary world events

The significance of 1936 Berlin During the conclusion of the 1936 Olympics, the Games that had been the Nazi power show, the IOC awarded 1940 to Tokyo, with the Japanese capital receiving 37 votes to ...
NDTV

Tokyo 1940: The Games That Became The 'Missing Olympics'

1940 Games were scrapped and were known as the "Missing Olympics" The decision to postpone the 2020 Olympics over the coronavirus pandemic is unprecedented, but in some ways Japan has been here before ...