Olympic Winter Games 1944
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St. Moritz 1948 → |
The 1944 Winter Olympics , which would have been referred to as the Fifth Winter Olympics due to the cancellation of the 1940 Winter Olympics , were to take place in Cortina d'Ampezzo , Italy . Other candidate cities were Montreal in Canada and Oslo in Norway .
The games were canceled by the IOC in the summer of 1941 because of World War II . Cortina d'Ampezzo was later awarded the contract for the 1956 Winter Olympics by the IOC .
Choice of venue
1st ballot | 2nd ballot | |
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Cortina d'Ampezzo | 16 | 16 |
Montreal | 11 | 12 |
Oslo | 7th | 2 |
Abstentions | 1 | 5 |
literature
- George M. Constable: The XI, XII & XIII Olympiads. Berlin 1936, St. Moritz 1948 . World Sport Research & Publications Inc., Los Angeles 1996, ISBN 1-888383-11-9 .
- Volker Kluge : Olympic Winter Games. The Chronicle . 3rd, exp. Edition. Sportverlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-328-00831-4 .
- Harald Oelrich: Sports status, world status: Sports in the area of tension of German-Italian foreign policy from 1918 to 1945 . LIT Verlag, Berlin-Hamburg-Münster 2003, ISBN 3-8258-5609-7