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Is this first for Olympics where title's year and scheduled year not matching at all ?

Title's year: Tokyo 2020

scheduled year : 2021 Rizosome (talk) 17:27, 21 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The title of the Olympic games is always in the format Games of the XXXII Olympiad. The year does not appear. Nanonic (talk) 18:12, 21 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

So London 2012 was actually the Games of the XXX Olympiad yet they still couldn't avoid the official logo looking like Lisa Simpson giving Bart an O. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 21:24, 21 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

That said, it is the first modern Olympics not to take place in the year in which they were originally scheduled; a few editions were cancelled altogether (1916, 1940 and 1944, the latter two both summer and winter). Xuxl (talk) 18:23, 21 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

As noted in Olympiad, the four-year time period is what an Olympiad is. Hence XXXII covers calendar years 2020 through 2023. And note that the cancelled Olympics during World Wars I and II still had Olympiad numbers for them. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 20:37, 21 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Xuxl My question is not about cancelled Olympics. Rizosome (talk) 02:58, 22 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

More precisely, the Summer Olympics, which are the Games of the XXXII Olympiad (2020–2023), were originally scheduled to take place in 2020 but then postponed and rescheduled for 2021. If held now, this will mark the first occasion of the event taking place in another year than the first year of the Olympiad, which is always an integer multiple of 4. When the event was rescheduled, the label "Tokyo 2020" (as seen in the logo) was kept. A similar decision was taken for the UEFA Euro 2020, which was also postponed by a year, but the number and logo were left unchanged. --Lambiam 07:55, 22 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Did you look at any of the Olympics articles before asking? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 18:13, 23 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]