The 2020 Summer Olympics were initially slated to take place in Tokyo, Japan, from July 24 to August 9, 2020. However, following the decision by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on January 23, 2015 to remove Tokyo from the Games due to safety concerns related to the ongoing nuclear crisis, a new host city was selected through an election held during the 115th IOC Session in Lima, Peru on September 3-4, 2015. The new host city will be announced at the 2017 World Championships in Helsinki, Finland. The Olympics are always held in the summer months. They are usually held around the fourth Sunday of August. However, since 1918 when they were last held in Europe, the Olympics have been held later in the year to avoid a conflict with another major sporting event - such as the FIFA World Cup or the European Football Championship - that tends to be held in the summer. In fact, the only time when this rule did not apply was in 1916, when France and Germany went to war over colonial issues. So the Olympics were not held that year either. Since then, the only other time when the Olympics weren't held in the summer was in 1952 because of a conflict with the FIFA World Cup.