Olympian Database
Planned Tokyo 1940 Summer Olympics | |||||
| In 1936 the International Olympic Commitee awarded the 1940 Olympic Games to the city of Tokyo in Japan. When the Japan-China war began in 1938 the games were transferred to Helsinki. After the Sovjet invasion of Finland in 1939 all plans for olympic games in 1940 were cancelled. |
| The story about the Tokyo Olympics 1940 is based on the official Olympic reports and the Olympian Database. |
