__NOTOC__ File:Tokyo 1940 Summer.jpg The anticipated 1940 Summer Olympics officially known as the Games of the XII Olympiad and originally scheduled to be held from September 21 to October 6, 1940, in Tokyo Empire of Japan were cancelled due to the outbreak of World War II Tokyo was stripped of its host status for the Games by the International Olympic Committee after the renunciation by the Japanese of the IOCs Cairo Conference of 1938, due to the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War The Empire of Japan had abandoned its support for the 1940 Games in July 1938.lt;/ref> The IOC then awarded the Games to Helsinki Finland the runner-up in the original bidding process. The Games were then scheduled to be staged from July 20 to August 4, 1940. The Olympic Games were suspended indefinitely following the outbreak of World War II and did not resume until the London Games of 1948 Summer Olympics With the Olympics cancelled, the major international athletics event of the year turned out to be the annual Finland-Sweden athletics international held at the new Helsinki Olympic Stadium exceptionally held as a triple international among Finland Sweden and Nazi Germany Gliding was due to be an Olympic sport in the 1940 Games after a demonstration sport at the Gliding at the 1936 Summer Olympics Games in 1936 lt;/ref>lt;/ref>. The sport has not been featured in any Games since, though the glider designed for it, the DFS Olympia Meise was produced in large numbers after the war. Helsinki eventually held the 1952 Summer Olympics and Tokyo the 1964 Summer Olympics Despite the cancellation of the 1940 Olympics, the Tokyo organizing committee released its budget for the Games. In a departure from standard practice, the budget included all capital outlays as well as direct organizing costs. The total budget was Japanese yen 0.1 million, one-third of which was paid for by the Tokyo metropolitan government.lt;/ref> During August 1940, prisoners of war celebrated a "special Olympics" called International Prisoner-of-War Olympic Games These were inaugurated and celebrated in stalag number XIII-A in Langwasser close to Nuremberg, Germany. An Olympic flag 29 by 46 cm in size was made of a Polish prisoner’s shirt and, drawn in crayon, it featured the Olympic rings and banners for Belgium, France, Great Britain, Norway, Poland, Russia and Yugoslavia. A feature film was produced by the director Andrzej Kotkowski in 1979 called [[Olimpiada 40]] telling the story of these games and one of the prisoners of war, Teodor Niewiadomski.lt;/ref>

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*http://www.aafla.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1940/OR1940.pdf Official preliminary report. In English]

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*International Journal of the History of Sport, vol. 24, 2007, No. 8, Special Issue: The Missing Olympics: The 1940 Tokyo Games, Japan, Asia and the Olympic Movement Category:1940 Summer Olympics Category:Cancelled Olympic games Category:Events cancelled due to World War II Category:Olympic Games in Japan af:Olimpiese Somerspele 1940 ar:ألعاب أولمبية صيفية 1940 an:Chuegos Olimpicos de 1940 bs:XII Olimpijske igre - Tokio 1940. bg:Летни олимпийски игри 1940 ca:Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1940 cs:Letní olympijské hry 1940 da:Sommer-OL 1940 de:Olympische Sommerspiele 1940 et:1940. aasta suveolümpiamängud es:Juegos Olímpicos de Helsinki 1940 eo:Somera Olimpiko 1940 eu:1940ko Udako Olinpiar Jokoak fr:Jeux olympiques d'été de 1940 gl:Xogos Olímpicos de 1940 ko:1940년 하계 올림픽 hr:XII. Olimpijske igre - Tokio 1940. is:Sumarólympíuleikarnir 1940 it:Giochi della XII Olimpiade la:1940 Olympia Aestiva lv:1940. gada Vasaras Olimpiskās spēles mk:Летни олимписки игри 1940 mr:१९४० उन्हाळी ऑलिंपिक nl:Olympische Zomerspelen 1940 ja:東京オリンピック (1940年) no:Sommer-OL 1940 nn:Sommar-OL 1940 pl:Letnie Igrzyska Olimpijskie 1940 pt:Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 1940 ru:Летние Олимпийские игры 1940 simple:1940 Summer Olympics sl:Poletne olimpijske igre 1940 sr:Летње олимпијске игре 1940. sh:Olimpijada 1940 sv:Olympiska sommarspelen 1940 th:โอลิมปิกฤดูร้อน 1940 zh:1940年夏季奥林匹克运动会