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I was over at Skyscrapercity to see the anti-wokists’ response to the Paris pictograms and came across the diagram at the top here. It struck me as perfect to compare the evolution of pictograms over the years since 1964, and that we haven’t done one of these polls for a while. I don’t think we’ve done pictograms before. Vote and comment away!

Okay, this is the fan poll that's been requested. And I had a lot of fun putting these collages together (with some help from Mr Bernham... thanks mate, and hope you don't mind I've tweaked them a bit! Also, I've should give credit for some images to TheOlympicDesign.com, a great site if you're interested in researching the looks more. I've only gone as far back as Mexico 68 for the summer games and Lillehammer 94 for the WOGs - I may be wrong, but I sorta attribute these as benchmarks in the development of games' looks, and it also helped get it down to the 20 choices possible in a poll here. If you have any games looks not mentioned, please show. And again, sorry if these images take a while to load, but some of the looks images are just too pretty not to show them off in a decent size and res. Anyway, here we go: Mexico City 1968 Munich 1972 Montreal 1976 Moscow 1980 Los Angeles 1984 Seoul 1988 Barcelona 1992 Lillehammer 1994 Atlanta 1996 Nagano 1998 Sydney 2000 Salt Lake City 2002 Athens 2004 Torino 2006 Beijing 2008 Vancouver 2010 London 2012 Sochi 2014 Rio 2016 PyeongChang 2018 Tokyo 2020 Beijing 2022 Paris 2024 (this is a work in progress, based mostly on early renders etc. i expect to update this come August)