The first Summer Olympics after World War 2 brought the world together with a bit of normalcy after the deadliest conflict in human history. A LOOK BACK AT THE FIRST SUMMER OLYMPICS AFTER WORLD WAR 2 Taking place just three short years after the end of the Second World War, when much of London and indeed, much of Europe was still rebuilding after the devastation of the 20th century’s most cataclysmic conflict, the 1948 London summer Olympics were the first since the 1936 Berlin Games. In comparison to 2012, that first post-war Summer Olympics in London was a low-key affair.
Unsurprisingly after six years of global conflict, the country was still struggling with shortages and the restoration of some kind of economic stability. Relive the moments that went down in history at the 1948 summer Olympics in London. Access official videos, results, galleries, sport and athletes. Following a twelve-year hiatus caused by the outbreak of World War II, these were the first Summer Olympics held since the 1936 Games in Berlin.
summer olympics after wwii, The 1940 Olympic Games had been scheduled for Tokyo and then for Helsinki, while the 1944 Olympic Games had been provisionally planned for London. The summer Games that resumed the modern Olympic sequence after the Second World War took place in London between 29 July and 14 August 1948, and are officially branded as London 1948, the Games of the XIV Olympiad [1]. Fifty-nine nations sent athletes to the London Games, including fourteen that had never before participated in the Olympics. Some of these first-time participants were former colonies that had won their independence from European empires after World War II.
