Who is hosting olympics 2016

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The Olympics are held every four years with the summer and the winter games taking place two years apart. Since the inception of the Olympic Games, 23 cities have played host to the Summer Games while Winter Games have been held in 20 cities.

In addition, five Olympic Games have been canceled due to war. Summer Olympics is the older of the two Olympic events. There have been 28 Summer Olympic Games held in 23 cities. The first Olympics event in the US was hosted by St. Louis in The United Kingdom has hosted the Summer Olympics three times with London hosting all the three events. The UK first hosted the Olympics in After hosting the Summer Olympics, London is not expected to host any event anytime soon.

Since then, 23 Winter Games have been held in 20 different cities. The United States has hosted the highest number of Winter Olympics events 4.