1940 Winter Olympics

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V Olympic Winter Games

Poster for the 1940 Games, when they were scheduled to be held in Sapporo
Location	Sapporo, Japan Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany
Winter ← Garmisch 1936 St. Moritz 1948 → Cortina 1944 → Summer ← Berlin 1936 London 1948 → Helsinki 1940 →

The 1940 Winter Olympics, officially known as the V Olympic Winter Games (第五回オリンピック冬季競技大会, Dai Go-kai Orinpikku Tōkikyōgi Taikai) and as Sapporo 1940 (札幌1940), was a planned international multi-sport event scheduled to have been held from 3 to 12 February 1940 in Sapporo, Empire of Japan. They were ultimately cancelled because of World War II alongside the 1940 Summer Olympics in Tokyo City, Empire of Japan (later Helsinki, Finland), and were the second games to be canceled due to war.

Sapporo subsequently hosted the 1972 Winter Olympics, becoming the first city in Asia to host the Winter Olympics.