35-719: Tokyo Olympics may refer to: 1940 Summer Olympics , Games of the XII Olympiad, cancelled due to World War II 1964 Summer Olympics , Games of the XVIII Olympiad 2020 Summer Olympics , Games of the XXXII Olympiad, held in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic See also [ edit ] Tokyo bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics Tokyo Paralympics (disambiguation) [REDACTED] [REDACTED] List of sports-related pages with
70-484: A Northern Irishman ( Jack McMillan ), a Scotsman ( Duncan Scott ) and a Welshman (again two, Kieran Bird and Matt Richards) . Crown Dependencies : A number of notable British Olympians and Olympic medalists have emerged from the Crown dependencies, including Carl Hester , four-time equestrian medalist from Guernsey and Mark Cavendish , track cycling silver medalist and Peter Kennaugh , gold winning team pursuiter, from
105-546: A city for 1940 began in 1932, with Barcelona , Rome , Helsinki , and Tokyo participating. Tokyo city officials suggested a campaign as a means of international diplomacy following Japan's alienation from the League of Nations due to the Mukden Incident , in which Japan occupied Manchuria and created the puppet state of Manchukuo . While both Tokyo officials and International Olympic Committee (IOC) representatives were behind
140-652: A different site be chosen and spoke of the possibility of boycotting the Games were they to proceed in Japan. In March 1938, the Japanese provided reassurances to the IOC at the organization's Cairo conference that Tokyo would still be able to serve as the host city. However, many Diet members in Japan had already openly questioned hosting the Olympics in wartime, and the military was demanding that
175-524: A predominantly Cypriot population from day to day, and the British personnel there are all born elsewhere. As such, it also does not send athletes of its own to Team GB, not competes at the Commonwealth Games. Among Crown Dependencies and current-day Overseas Territories, only a few have been represented on Team GB since 1930 (the year of the first Commonwealth Games) while retaining citizenship of, and (if
210-549: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles 1940 Summer Olympics The 1940 Summer Olympics , officially known as the Games of the XII Olympiad , was a planned international multi-sport event scheduled to have been held from 21 September to 6 October 1940, in Tokyo City , Japan , and later rescheduled for 20 July to 4 August 1940, in Helsinki , Finland following
245-754: Is responsible for organising and overseeing the participation of athletes from the Great Britain and Northern Ireland Olympic Team , branded as Team GB , at both the summer and winter Olympic Games , the Youth Olympic Games , the European Youth Olympic Festivals , and at the European Games . All the constituent members of the BOA compete and operate separately at the Commonwealth Games , and
280-631: Is the National Olympic Committee for the United Kingdom . It represents the four constituent countries of the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland), but also incorporate representatives from eight of the eleven inhabited British Overseas Territories (but not British Virgin Islands , Bermuda or Caymen Islands which have their own national Olympic associations), and
315-631: The 1964 Summer Olympics and the 2020 Summer Olympics , although the later event was postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic . During August 1940, prisoners of war celebrated a "special Olympics" called the International Prisoner-of-War Olympic Games at Stalag XIII-A in Langwasser , near Nuremberg , Germany. An Olympic flag, 29 by 46 cm in size, was made of a Polish prisoner's shirt and, drawn in crayon, it featured
350-651: The Meiji Jingu precinct, strongly opposed the reconstruction. Subsequently, a new stadium was planned at the Komazawa Olympic Park , away from the city center. The Olympic Village was to be built on the present sites of Kinuta Park or Todoroki Gorge. A schedule was drawn up, and guidelines were printed in four languages. Monthly magazines and posters were printed and distributed internationally. Construction began on some buildings, and arrangements were made with hotels, travel agents, and airlines for easy access. When
385-542: The Olympic Charter . Working with the national governing bodies of each sport, the BOA selects Team GB 's members to compete in all sports at the summer and winter Olympics. The BOA is independent and receives no funding from the government. Its income comes from fundraising and events. Great Britain & Northern Ireland is one of only five National Olympic Committees (the others being Australia, France, Greece and Switzerland) which have never failed to be represented at
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#1732844900111420-796: The Olympic Flame from Greece to Japan was proposed by air delivery, in the purpose-built Messerschmitt Me 261 Adolfine long-range aircraft, which was designed to have a maximum range of some 11,024 km (6,850 mi) unrefueled. British Olympic Association [REDACTED] Guernsey [REDACTED] Jersey [REDACTED] Isle of Man [REDACTED] Anguilla [REDACTED] Falkland Islands [REDACTED] Gibraltar [REDACTED] Montserrat [REDACTED] Pitcairn Islands [REDACTED] Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha The British Olympic Association ( BOA ; Welsh : Cymdeithas Olympaidd Prydain )
455-663: The Second Sino-Japanese War broke out on 7 July 1937, Ichirō Kōno , a member of the Imperial Diet (legislature), immediately requested that the Olympics be forfeited. The 1938 Far Eastern Games were also canceled, but Japan's IOC delegates persisted under a belief that the war would soon be over. Amid the intensification of the war, the feasibility of both the Summer Olympics and the 1940 Winter Olympics grew increasingly questionable to other countries, who suggested
490-667: The flag of British India . This caused a complaint from the British Olympic Association . In 1934, Japan attempted to invite European colonies to the Far Eastern Games . The main stadium was initially to be the Meiji Jingu Gaien Stadium — later used at the 1964 Summer Olympics — reconstructed to accommodate 100,000 spectators; however, the Shrines Bureau of Home Ministry , which had jurisdiction over
525-512: The surrender of Japan in 1945, announced the forfeiture on 16 July 1938. He closed his speech saying, "When peace reigns again in the Far East, we can then invite the Games to Tokyo and take that opportunity to prove to the people of the world the true Japanese spirit." This would come to pass in 1964 . Despite the cancellation of the 1940 Olympics, the Tokyo organizing committee released its budget for
560-466: The BOA is not involved. The British Olympic Association – responsible for Olympic participation of the United Kingdom comprising its constituent countries , the Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories which do not have their own NOC – competes at all summer, winter and youth Olympics as [REDACTED] Great Britain (" Team GB "). The association comprises members from
595-652: The BOA: Bermuda , the British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands . While the territories of British Antarctic Territory , British Indian Ocean Territory and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands are nominally represented by the BOA, these territories have no permanent population and do not send athletes. Akrotiri and Dhekelia , a pair of British military areas on the island of Cyprus, has
630-501: The Games. In a departure from standard practice, the budget included all capital outlays as well as direct organizing costs. The total budget was ¥ 20.1 million, one-third of which would have been paid by the Tokyo metropolitan government. The IOC then awarded the Games to Helsinki , Finland, the city that had been the runner-up in the original bidding process. The Games were then scheduled to be staged from 20 July to 4 August 1940. The Olympic Games were suspended indefinitely following
665-665: The International Olympic Committee. It traces its roots back to the National Olympian Association (NOA), which held its inaugural meeting at the Liverpool Gymnasium, Myrtle Street, Liverpool in November 1865. It promoted an annual series of sporting events across Britain, with the aim of encouraging participation in physical education through Olympian festivals. The NOA came about mainly through
700-867: The Isle of Man. British Overseas Territories : Some notable British Olympians have come from British Overseas Territories, though some have transferred sporting allegiance to England for Commonwealth Games purposes afterwards. Such a switch is not necessary to represent Team GB at the Olympic Games: Examples include Olympic bronze medalist sprinter Zharnel Hughes and long jumper Shara Proctor , both originally from Anguilla , and Delano Williams , another sprinter from Turks and Caicos Islands . Note – IOC rules currently do not allow dependent territories to obtain recognition for National Olympic Committees (NOCs). Three British Overseas Territories have their own NOCs predating this rule and are therefore not connected with
735-582: The NOC, the BOA's decision and policy-making body. The NOC elects three officers: a President, a Chairman, and a Vice-Chairman, each for a four-year term. Six members of the NOC are elected to the Board, which oversees the work of the BOA and puts forward proposals for decision by the NOC. The present (2022) chief office holders are: The BOA's origins pre-date the International Olympic movement and its governing body,
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#1732844900111770-559: The Olympic rings and banners for Belgium, France, Great Britain, Norway, Poland, and the Netherlands. A feature film, Olimpiada '40 , produced by the director Andrzej Kotkowski in 1980 tells the story of these games and of one of the prisoners of war, Teodor Niewiadomski. After the successful invention of the torch relay in Nazi Germany four years earlier, the proposed method of bringing
805-663: The Summer Olympic Games since 1896. Of these countries GB&NI, France and Switzerland are the only countries to have been present at all Olympic Winter Games; thus Great Britain & Northern Ireland is one of three countries that have competed at all Olympic Games. Great Britain is also the only team in the Olympic Games to have won a gold in every Summer games. The United Kingdom has hosted three Olympic Games, all of them in London: in 1908, 1948 and 2012. At its formation in 1905
840-401: The association consisted of seven national governing body members from the following sports: fencing , life-saving , cycling , skating , rowing , athletics , rugby football , association football , and archery . It now includes as its members the thirty-three national governing bodies of each Olympic sport, both summer and winter. A representative of each of the Olympic sports makes up
875-403: The campaign, the national government, which was ever more interested in military matters, did not have any strong supporters for such a diplomatic gesture. In 1936, Tokyo was chosen in a surprise move, making it the first non-Western city to win an Olympic bid. During the 1930 Far Eastern Games in Tokyo, Indian participants were spotted flying the flag of their independence movement rather than
910-613: The efforts of John Hulley of Liverpool (Chairman), Dr William Penny Brookes (of Much Wenlock ) and E G Ravenstein (president of the German Gymnastic Society of London). It took the existing Olympian Games of Much Wenlock as its example, thus the NOA Games "were open to all comers" and not just the products of Britain's public schools . After the NOA closed in 1883 its motto ( Civium virtus civitatis tutamen meaning 'the power of
945-570: The following countries: Note – Northern Irish athletes can choose whether to compete for Great Britain and Northern Ireland or for the Republic of Ireland , as they are entitled to citizenship of either nation under the Good Friday Agreement . However in a number of sports, including hockey, tennis and rugby sevens, Northern Irish athletes rarely represent Team GB because the designated federation only selects from those players who are active on
980-596: The island of Great Britain (for example, Northern Ireland born hockey players who live and play in England). Jack McMillan, a Northern Ireland-born heat swimmer in the gold-medal winning men's 4 x 200 freestyle relay British team in 2024, had previously swum for Team Ireland at the Olympics in 2021. The team that won the men's 4 x 200 freestyle relay was unique in being the first gold medal relay team from Great Britain ever to contain membes from all four constituent countries: an Englishman (in fact two, Tom Dean and James Guy ),
1015-489: The organizers build the venues from wood because they needed metals for the war front. In July, a legislative session was held to decide the matters of the Summer and Winter Olympics and the planned 1940 World's Fair all at once. The World's Fair was only "postponed", under a belief that Japan would be able to wrap up the war, but the Olympics could not be moved and were canceled. Kōichi Kido , who would later be instrumental in
1050-513: The outbreak of World War II (the Winter War in particular) and did not resume until the London Games of 1948 . With the Olympics canceled, the major international athletics event of the year turned out to be the annual Finland-Sweden Athletics International , held at the new Helsinki Olympic Stadium , exceptionally held as a triple international among Finland , Sweden and Germany . Gliding
1085-492: The outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937. They were ultimately cancelled because of World War II alongside the 1940 Winter Olympics in Sapporo , Japan, and were the third games to be cancelled due to war. Helsinki would eventually host the 1952 Summer Olympics . Tokyo would also later host the 1964 and 2020 Summer Olympics , the latter being postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic . The campaign to choose
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1155-561: The sport is held) Commonwealth Games eligibility for their territories. These include: Some more have participated in Team GB after switching Commonwealth Games eligibility mid-career from their territories to England before the Olympic Games, including: The BOA is one of 206 National Committees (NOCs) currently recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The IOC leads the promotion of Olympism in accordance with
1190-493: The three Crown Dependencies (Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man), who do not have their own separate Olympics teams. Athletes from Northern Ireland are also entitled, as of right, to represent Ireland (the team organised by the Olympic Federation of Ireland ) and routinely do so in certain sports due to all-island governing bodies existing in those sports such as rugby, tennis and field hockey. Founded in 1905, The BOA
1225-541: Was due to be an Olympic sport in the 1940 Games after a demonstration at the Berlin Games in 1936. The sport has not been featured in any Games since, though the glider designed for it, the DFS Olympia Meise , was produced in large numbers after the war. Meanwhile, Japan hosted the 1940 East Asian Games in Tokyo, with six participating nations. Helsinki eventually held the 1952 Summer Olympics , while Tokyo held
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