Fun fact about Olympic and Pokémon World Championships host venues

Did you know that only two cities have held both the Olympics and the Pokémon World Championships?^*

(Years in italic are upcoming events that haven’t happened at the time of writing.)

• Vancouver (Winter Olympics in 2010; Pokémon World Championships in 2013)
• London (Summer Olympics in 1908, 1948, 2012; Pokémon World Championships in 2022)

In terms of states, there’s only one—California:

• California (Summer Olympics: 1932, 1984, 2028; Winter Olympics: 1960; Worlds: 2005, 2006, 2009, 2011, 2016, 2017, 2025, 2026)

And countries? All of them:

• USA (Summer Olympics: 1904, 1932, 1984, 1996, 2028; Winter Olympics: 1932, 1960, 1980, 2002, 2034; Worlds: 2004–2012, 2014–2019, 2024–2026)
• UK (Summer Olympics: 1908, 1948, 2012; Worlds: 2022)
• Canada (Summer Olympics: 1976; Winter Olympics: 1988, 2010; Worlds: 2013)
• Japan (Summer Olympics: 1964, 2020^**; Winter Olympics: 1972, 1998; Worlds: 2023)

References

*A predecessor to the first official Pokémon World Championships in 2008 was held in [Sydney in 2000](https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/World_Championships#Predecessors), to coincide with the Summer Olympics held in the same year.

**The 2020 and 2021 World Championships didn't take place due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo took place in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.