Tokyo will be hosting its second summer Olympic Games in 2020, it was announced by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) here Saturday.
It will be the second time after 1964 that Tokyo will be hosting the Games again.
The following is the list of Olympic hosts:
1896 - Athens
1900 - Paris
1904 - St. Louis
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1908 - London
1912 - Stockholm
1916 - Berlin (cancelled due to World War I)
1920 - Antwerp
1924 - Paris
1928 - Amsterdam
1932 - Los Angeles
1936 - Berlin
1940 - First awarded to Tokyo then to Helsinki (cancelled due to World War II)
1944 - London (cancelled due to World War II)
1948 - London
1952 - Helsinki
1956 - Melbourne
1960 - Rome
1964 - Tokyo
1968 - Mexico City
1972 - Munich
1976 - Montreal
1980 - Moscow
1984 - Los Angeles
1988 - Seoul
1992 - Barcelona
1996 - Atlanta
2000 - Sydney
2004 - Athens
2008 - Beijing
2012 - London
2016 - Rio de Janeiro
2020 - Tokyo
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