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Has the Olympics ever been cancelled before?

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With coronavirus spreading across the globe, a number of sporting events have already been cancelled in a bid to contain the virus.

Thoughts are now turning to this year's Summer Olympics, which are set to take place in Tokyo, Japan, from July. The International Olympic Committee says it remains fully committed to staging the Tokyo 2020 Games as scheduled, despite concerns over athletes and spectators travelling to the city amid the outbreak.

President of the committee Thomas Bach recently said after a board meeting that "neither the word ‘cancellation’, nor the word ‘postponement’ was even mentioned".

But has the Summer Olympics ever been cancelled before? It's actually very rare for the event to be abandoned completely, with only three

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