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August 11

Olympic handoff

With the wrap up of the "2020" Tokyo Olympics, there was a handoff to Paris. Why did it not handoff to the next Olympic city, Bejing, which is coming up in 2022? RudolfRed (talk) 23:14, 11 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Trying to find a good reference (did check out the official olympic torch website) but it has always been summer games to summer games and winter games to winter games for the handoffs.

UPDATE Here is an official looking Olympic PDF all about the torches and why they are different for summer and winter.[1] :-)2600:1702:690:F7A0:D575:5820:F035:8882 (talk) 00:01, 12 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Summer hands off to summer and winter hands off to winter. MarnetteD|Talk 00:06, 12 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the replies and the info. RudolfRed (talk) 00:05, 13 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I imagine this made more sense before 1994 when the Winter Games were held in the same calendar year as the Summer Games. Imagine at the first Winter Olympics in 1924 in Chamonix, France, that the handoff was made to Paris, the site of the 1924 Summer Olympics in the same country a few months away, instead of the site of the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Zzyzx11 (talk) 01:14, 13 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

As you see in the lead paragraph, the 1924 Winter Olympics (somewhat like the 1900 Summer Olympics) weren't even called Olympic games at the time. I don't know when the ceremonial "handoff to the next hosts" began, but it couldn't've happened at those games. --184.144.99.72 (talk) 03:56, 13 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]