I just learned from @Kato that the UK had actually bid for the cancelled 1944 Olympics before the war started. So this gets me thinking: what happens if the war ends about a year earlier, or more likely VE Day is earlier so the ongoing war doesn't mean London's getting bombed, and there's an attempt to have an Olympics in Britain as a general "we've won, everything will be fine" gesture? Who's competing, where do you do it, what do people think of it going on?
Where could you even hold it? Most of the major cities have been bombed and need rebuilding. Would you have to send the Olympiads to the countryside or to small town football & rugby grounds, or would a government send them to a major city that was bombed because it was a major city that was bombed & the propaganda of London/Liverpool/Glasgow Endures is too important to let basic logistics win?
And since a lot of the men who'd compete are off doing war work, do you get a lot more focus on female athletes?
Where could you even hold it? Most of the major cities have been bombed and need rebuilding. Would you have to send the Olympiads to the countryside or to small town football & rugby grounds, or would a government send them to a major city that was bombed because it was a major city that was bombed & the propaganda of London/Liverpool/Glasgow Endures is too important to let basic logistics win?
And since a lot of the men who'd compete are off doing war work, do you get a lot more focus on female athletes?