the olympics are coming to the us in 2028.
the olympics are coming to the us in 2028.
when are the olympics coming to the us?
2028
in 2022, beijing will become the first-ever city that has held both the summer and the winter olympic games. ten cities will have hosted the olympic games more than once: athens (1896 and 2004 summer olympics), paris (1900, 1924 and 2024 summer olympics), london (1908, 1948 and 2012 summer olympics), st. moritz (1928 and 1948 winter olympics), lake placid (1932 and 1980 winter olympics), los angeles (1932, 1984 and 2028 summer olympics), innsbruck (1964 and 1976 winter olympics and 2012 winter youth olympics), tokyo (1964 and 2020 summer olympics), lillehammer (1994 winter olympics and 2016 winter youth olympics), beijing (2008 summer olympics and 2022 winter olympics) and cortina d'ampezzo (1956 and 2026). stockholm hosted the 1912 summer olympics and the equestrian portion of the 1956 summer olympics. london became the first city to have hosted three games with the 2012 summer olympics. paris will become the second city to do this with the 2024 summer olympics, followed by los angeles as the third in 2028. the united states has hosted a total of eight olympic games, more than any other country, followed by france with five editions. switzerland, the united kingdom, austria, canada, italy, japan and germany have each hosted three games.
list of olympic games host cities
on the women's side, the olympic 100 m was affected by state-sponsored doping in east germany. stasi documents released after the fall of the berlin wall revealed extensive drug usage by olympic sprinters, including the 1976 and 1980 silver medallists renate stecher and marlies göhr, as well as the 1988 bronze medallist heike drechsler. shelly-ann fraser, twice olympic champion, received a six-month ban in 2010 for taking a prohibited narcotic for pain relief. a similar system was in place in the soviet union with major revelations concerning the soviet state-sponsored doping program in preparation for the 1984 olympics coming to light in 2016. the 2008 runner-up sherone simpson was banned in 2013 after a positive test for a stimulant and two-time bronze medallist veronica campbell-brown failed a test for a diuretic that same year. a fourth jamaican medallist, merlene ottey, received a ban for the steroid nandrolone in 1999 but this was rescinded on appeal due to laboratory errors.
100 metres at the olympics