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Doing a bit of research, here's a list of Olympic sites from 1960-2012 by continent:
North America (9/4)
2010 Vancouver*
2002 Salt Lake City*
1996 Atlanta
1988 Calgary*
1984 Los Angeles
1980 Lake Placid*
1976 Montreal
1968 Mexico City
1960 Squaw Valley*
Asia (5/3)
2008 Beijing
1998 Nagano*
1988 Seoul
1972 Sapporo*
1964 Tokyo
Europe (13/6)
2012 London
2006 Turin*
2004 Athens
1994 Lillehammer*
1992 Albertville*
1992 Barcelona
1984 Sarajevo*
1980 Moscow
1976 Innsbruck*
1972 Munich
1968 Grenoble*
1964 Innsbruck*
1960 Rome
Australia (1/1)
2000 Sydney
*--Winter site
(#/#)--first number is total games held, second is Summer games held
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Clearly, NA and Europe have dominated hosting the games over the long term, but Asia and Australia have hosted four of the ten games since 1988 and will get another crack in 2008. I don't expect the Winter Games to move outside NA or Europe often since both continents have the infrastructure to host the various events in a Winter Olympics. It should be noted that with London hosting, Europe will have not had a strech without the Summer Games longer than 12 years (though they have a 10 year stretch from 1984 to 1994 where they didn't host any games). If the US or Canada got lucky and were awarded in 2016, it would be 20 years since Atlanta in 1996. I suspect a US or Canadian bid will win in 2016 or 2020 for that reason, and after that expect the Summer Games to finally move to Africa and South America.
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