and as the scale of the Olympics grew, so did the cost to the host city. With a price tag of more than $500 million (in 2021 dollars), Adolf Hitler’s 1936 Summer Games in Berlin, which were clearly ...

Originally planned for Summer 2020, the pandemic-postponed 2020 Summer Olympics is scheduled from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Japan. The games are officially called Tokyo 2020 for marketing and ...