As a multi-sport event, competitions held during a given Olympic Games usually take place in different venues located across the host city and its metropolitan area. However, some Olympic competitions may be held outside the host metropolitan area, and instead in other regions of the host country (as it is usually the case with Football at the Summer Olympics and its requirements for large stadia).
One venue is designated as the "Olympic Stadium", the big centrepiece stadium of the games. Traditionally at the Summer Olympic Games, the opening and closing ceremonies and the Athletics competitions are held in the Olympic Stadium. The Winter Olympic Games do not usually have a central Olympic Stadium, but instead have edifices that are designated as the Olympic Stadium to host the opening and closing ceremonies.
Summer Olympics
Alphabetical Number or letters Number of venues 1–92 A 33 B 43 C 33 D 21 E 20 F 21 G 19 H 34 I 7 J 11 K 22 L 39 M 44 N 19 O 67 P 50 Q 4 R 31 S 79 T 24 U 7 V 17 W 25 X 0 Y 3 Z 4
Sport Current for 2016 Discipline Number of venues Archery 16 Athletics 60 Badminton 8Baseball8 Basketball 29 Boxing 27 Canoeing 26 Cricket 1 Cycling 76 Diving 25 Equestrian 53 Fencing 31 Field hockey 32 Football 122 Golf 3 Gymnastics 34 Handball 27 Judo 15 Marathon swimming 7 Modern pentathlon 88 Rowing 27 Sailing 32 Shooting 38Softball4 Swimming 31 Synchronized swimming 9 Table tennis 8 Taekwondo 7 Tennis 15 Triathlon 5 Volleyball 32 Water polo 34 Weightlifting 25 Wrestling 29
Discontinued sports Discipline Number of venues Basque pelota 2 Cricket 1 Croquet 1 Jeu de Paume 1 Lacrosse 2 Polo 5 Racquets 1 Rugby union 5 Tug of war 5 Water motorsports 1
Demonstration sports Discipline Number of venues Bowling 1 Korfball 2 Roller hockey 4
Games by year
Games Number of venues 1896 Athens 7 1900 Paris 14 1904 St. Louis 5 1908 London 12 1912 Stockholm 12 1920 Antwerp 17 1924 Paris 17 1928 Amsterdam 14 1932 Los Angeles 15 1936 Berlin 22 1948 London 25 1952 Helsinki 24 1956 Melbourne 17 1960 Rome 34 1964 Tokyo 33 1968 Mexico City 25 1972 Munich 32 1976 Montreal 27 1980 Moscow 28 1984 Los Angeles 31 1988 Seoul 31 1992 Barcelona 43 1996 Atlanta 29 2000 Sydney 30 2004 Athens 35 2008 Beijing 37 2012 London 31 2016 Rio de Janeiro 36 2020 Tokyo 41 2024 Paris38 2028 Los Angeles 2032 Brisbane
Winter Olympics
Alphabetical Number or letters Number of venues 1–9 0 A 7 B 12 C 11 D 2 E 3 F 2 G 3 H 6 I 5 J 3 K 10 L 23 M 27 N 3 O 16 P 14 Q 0 R 8 S 24 T 8 U 3 V 2 W 4 X 0 Y 0 Z 2
Sport Current for 2014 Discipline Number of venues Alpine skiing 37 Biathlon 16 Bobsleigh 21 Cross-country skiing 22 Curling 8 Figure skating 27 Freestyle skiing 9 Ice hockey 46 Luge 14 Nordic combined 37 Short track speed skating 8 Skeleton 6 Ski jumping 26 Snowboarding 6 Speed skating 22
Demonstration sports Discipline Number of venues Bandy 2 To be done Speed skiing 1
Games by year
Venues Number of Games 1924 Chamonix 3 1928 St. Moritz 5 1932 Lake Placid 5 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen 6 1948 St. Moritz 8 1952 Oslo 10 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo 8 1960 Squaw Valley 5 1964 Innsbruck 8 1968 Grenoble 10 1972 Sapporo 12 1976 Innsbruck 8 1980 Lake Placid 7 1984 Sarajevo 9 1988 Calgary 9 1992 Albertville 13 1994 Lillehammer 10 1998 Nagano 15 2002 Salt Lake City 10 2006 Turin 15 2010 Vancouver 10 2014 Sochi 11 2018 PyeongChang 13 2022 Beijing 13 2026 Milano-Cortina
See also
List of Commonwealth Games venues List of Olympic Villages
References LA84Foundation.org site on the Official Olympic reports: 1896 Athens to 2006 Turin. Accessed 25 February 2011. Sports-reference.com profile of the Olympics. Accessed 25 February 2011. It lists all of the events with locations for each event. Beijing2008.cn profile. Accessed 25 February 2011. Olympic.org profile of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Accessed 25 February 2011. Accessed 25 February 2011. Sochi2014.com list of venues. Accessed 25 February 2011. Rio2016.org map of the venues. Accessed 25 February 2011.