Summer Games
1992 - Awarded to Barcelona beating Amsterdam by 6 votes.
The 5 candidate cities were :-
- Barcelona
- Amsterdam
- Paris
- Birmingham
- Brisbane
1996 - Awarded to Athens to commorate 100 years of the modern olympics. It beats Melbourne by 1 single vote.Athens faces huge problems mainly cost and building difficulties. The IOC are forced to relocate the games to Atlanta.
The candidate cities were :-
- Athens,
- Melbourne
- Atlanta
- Toronto
- Birmingham
2000 - Awarded to Sydney beating favourites Istanbul and Beijing.
The candidate cities were :-
- Sydney
- Ista