Why can I find 27 hosting cities for the Summer Olympics and not 29 as is stated for Beijing?

BRY2K

The primary reason that your search shows twenty-seven cities instead of twenty-nine is that two cities in the 20th Century were *slated* to host the Olympics but they were cancelled. This list shows the 27 successful hosting cities: http://www.pubquizhelp.com/sport/solympics.html This list shows that the 1916 Games of the VI Olympiad were cancelled due to WWI and the 1944 Games of the XIII Olympiad (London, United Kingdom) were cancelled due to the Second World War: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_olympics Aug 11 08, 4:44 PM