The Venues of the Upcoming Olympic Games. The next Olympic Games, to be held in 2004, will once again take place in Athens, the city that ed the first Olympic Games of the modern era in 1896. The 2008 Olympic Games will be held in Beijing, the vast Chinese metropolis of 12 million inhabitants.
This is a historic decision, as it marks the first time that the great Asian nation will the Olympic Games, and only the second time a communist country has done so — the first being Moscow in 1980, when it was the capital of the Soviet Union.