Olympic Games (New England Secession)

The Olympic Games are a bi-annual sporting event held worldwide. Unlike OTL whe it was the late 20th Century before the Olympics became bi-annual, they were done immediately after Berlin 1936.

Paris 1938 - Summer
CANCELLED DUE TO WORLD WAR II

Yellowknife 1940 - Winter
CANCELLED DUE TO WORLD WAR II

San Francisco 1942 - Summer
CANCELLED DUE TO WORLD WAR II

Helsinki 1944 - Winter
CANCELLED DUE TO WORLD WAR II

Monterrey 1946 - Summer
CANCELLED DUE TO WORLD WAR II

St. Louis 1948 - Winter
CANCELLED DUE TO WORLD WAR II

Cape Town 1990 - Winter
South Africa's first time hosting the event, it showed the world that South Africa had moved on from Apartheid. The United States was banned from competition following the "New Years Invasion", the US invasion of the Republic of the Pacific was deemed illicit by many nations and supranational bodies, and thus the IOC banned them for 1990, a mere month before the games were to begin.

Vladivostok 1992 - Summer
A complete and utter failure, the world watch as the Soviets struggled to maintain order in Vladivostok. Several scandals came out, most involving the Soviet team. Several nations accused the Soviets of cheating to make it easier for the Soviets to win events, but nothing came of it. Recently, whenever an Olympiad is said to be experiencing troubles, pundits may say "I hope it won't go like '92" or "Maybe they're pulling a Vlad."

Lake Placid 1994 - Winter
Some people believed that because of the United States' "illicit" invasion of the Republic of the Pacific following it's secession in 1986. President Tom Harkin, however, stated that "Past crimes by old governments is not the way of the future, and not the way of the United States anymore." The Republic of the Pacific considered boycotting the games, as did other countries, but every country invited ended up showing up. This Olympics made the world forget the crimes committed on the RNE and ROP by Presidents Kemp and Dole.

Moscow 2006 - Winter
This was seen as a last hurrah by the Soviets before their collapse in 2007. While it was an ecomomic failure, more people watched the Moscow Olympics than ever before. The Soviet Union ice hockey team even won gold, in their final Olympics together. It also was a bigger succes critically than the disastorous Vladivostok Olympics in 1992.

Rio De Janeiro 2008 - Summer
Brazil's first Olympic games beat out Tokyo, Japan, Dublin, Ireland and Cape Town, South Africa.

Stockholm 2010 - Winter
Stockholm hosted the first Olympic Games in Sweden since the disastorous Stockholm Olympics in 1966. The Quebecois Ice Hockey team defeated the Canadian team in the final to win Gold. Many people were saddened, however, when New English luger Julia Clukey died during a test run before the official open of the games.

Mexico City 2012 - Summer
Originally destined for Port-au-Prince, Haiti, designed to show off the recent boom economy in the area, a massive earthquake destroyed Port-au-Prince in 2011, damaging the mostly-completed structures. The Haiti Olympic Comittee immediately withdrew, leaving the IOC scrambling to find a new host. They chose Mexico City, the runner up to Port-au-Prince in balloting. This Olympiad was very unsuccesful, and relatively boring. The Hatian team won Silver in Handball, drawing a massive standing association.

Boston/Portland/Halifax 2014 - Winter
Boston and Portland in the Republic of New England and Halifax in the Eastern Republic of Acadia united to put together a joint bid, beating out Anchorage, Alaska, which President Sarah Palin threw much time and support behind. Birmingham, England and and Kyoto, Japan were also in the running.

Rome 2016 - Summer
The Italians will hold their first Olympic games in their history. The Italians are already building facilities, hoping them to be extravagant, elegant and mdoern.

Los Angeles, Republic of the Pacific
Los Angeles has never held an Olympic games as a city in the Republic of the Pacific.

Baghdad, Iraq
Since the Iraqi Revolution of 2000, Iraq has strived to secure it's place as a premier democratic nation in the world. While Baghdad is seen as a long shot, the Iraqi government is going full boar to try to get the 2020 Olympics to Baghdad, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Republic of Iraq. It has a steep mountain to climb with strong bids by Los Angeles and Seattle.

Pyongyang, Korea
Similar to Iraq, since the United Republic of Korea was founded following the Second Korean War in 1994, Korea has started