XXIX Olympics? According to my count, this is the XXVI Olympics.?

Question

Why are they naming it the XXIX?

Answer 1

They count the olympics during the world wars even though they weren't held.

Answer 2

The person above me is right.  They're referring to it as the 29th Olympiad, which the media is counting as every 4 years since 1896.

As a winter athlete it's somewhat insulting since Winter Olympics is completely disregarded in that account (at least WO since 1994), but it doesn't matter too much because it's somewhat arbitrary with how many exceptions there are to counting Olympics.

Answer 3

i thort that this was the 29th olympics????

Answer 4

You are correct in so far as this is the 26th games held, although 29 have been appointed.The 1916 Berlin games were cancelled because of WW1 and then the 1940 Tokyo games were re-asigned to Helsinki but ultimately cancelled, and the 1944 London games were cancelled both due to WW2.

Because the games had been allocated, they were counted.

Answer 5

this is NOT the 26th, it's the 29th.