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I think the article should include the continent instead of State/Province/Region which is less important. Bennylin (talk) 01:02, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Misuse of term "Olympiad"

The table listing host cities has a seriously misleading column head called "Olympiad." An "Olympiad" is the four year period starting with the year a Summer Olympics is held, the first being the period 1896-1899, the current, the 29th Olympiad, started 2008 and continues to 2011. Yet the column omits the "III" for the 1906 games, the so-called intercalated games as they were the second held within the Olympiad. And the Winter Games, most egregiously, are numbered sequentially by those cities which held it, but these are not Olympiads! They are simply the numbers of each Winter games.

The numbering convention for Olympics are: Summer Games are numbered by Olympiad (hence there are three Games which were not held for three Olympiads); Winter Games are numbered by sequence of games actually held (war-years games canceled are therefore not numbered). The column head, as it now exists, conflates these two distinct numbering conventions as misuses the term "Olympiad." Canada Jack (talk) 18:46, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

I agree. Feel free to be bold and fix that. It might be helpful to get rid of the unnecessary region/state/province column while you are at it. Thanks — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 19:00, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

The IOC expects very specific naming conventions from each Organising Committee and Olympic Host City. One of the most important rules is that the word Winter or Summer does not precede Olympic. The season is an adjective to the Games, not to the Olympics. For example, it is called "Olympic Winter Games" (not Winter Olympic Games). All editors should adjust their content accordingly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.174.223.227 (talk) 10:49, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

map

{{reqmap}} Should be an overall map of host cities/nations, which would assist in seeing patterns (such as that no middle eastern, African, south American, or south Asian country has ever held Olympic games...). AnonMoos (talk) 17:29, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

continent information

The paragraph about continents is relevant. This talk page has requested a map to show trends in continents hosting olympics (i.e. no olympics in africa), and it has also requested a continents column be added to the table. it seems clear to me that this is information that visitors to this page would like to see. iempleh (talk) 15:08, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

question

Question: What is this about Newport News, VA hosting the Summer Olympics in 2010? If this is meant sincerely, some explanation seems required. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.248.102.81 (talk) 21:56, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Sorting Roman numerals

The column headings "Olympiad" and "No." had sort buttons, but Roman numerals don't sort numerically or alphabetically unless you're using a very old version of the software. So I fixed it. I put constructs like <span style="display:none">W001</span> before each Roman numeral. The sort codes I used are a "W" for "winter" (for those entries in the "No." column) or an "S" for "summer" (for those in the "Olympiad" column) followed by a three digit number (with leading zeros) matched to the Roman numeral. So "W001" corresponds to Winter Olympics I and "S019" corresponds to Summer Olympics XIX. For the three Winter Olympics numbered "V" I appended "a", "b" or "c". These codes won't display to the user, but they enable proper sorting. --Unimath (talk) 01:41, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

United Kingdon inconsistency

The introduction states "Canada and the United Kingdom will host their third games in 2010 and 2012 respectively.", but the table then lists four games hosted by the UK - 1908, 1944, 1948, and 2012. So which is correct? Ouroboros726 (talk) 16:09, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

1944 was not actually hosted by the UK, but they were chosen to host it. I think the table is clear enough as to the cancelled status of the 1944 games. —JAO • T • C 16:27, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

My mistake - I didn't scroll far enough to the right on my monitor to notice the cancelled status. Apologies. Ouroboros726 (talk) 23:17, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

Maps

Maps are titled "Nations that HAVE hosted the Olympic Olympics" and "... Winter Olympics". Aren't we jumping the gun by, for example, including Russia in the nations that HAVE hosted the Winter Games and, similarly, Brazil for the Summer Games, given that these games have not actually happened yet? Also, for the record in general, a "nation" is NOT the same thing as a "country". The proper usage is "country". 207.219.69.206 (talk) 19:49, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

New question

How are the bidding countries decided?--TheShadowCrow (talk) 20:54, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

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