Timeline of Summer Olympic Games that went on amid global conflict

By Hannah Ryan, Issy Ronald and Way Mullery, CNN

(CNN) — The 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris are unfolding against the backdrop of growing instability around the globe, as Russia pushes on with its yearslong invasion of Ukraine and the war between Israel and Hamas rages on in Gaza.

While the international community has been rocked by these conflicts and others, the Olympics are supposed to be a symbol of peace and goodwill between nations.

Here’s a look at other times in modern Summer Olympics history where war and political unrest played out as the world’s greatest athletes took center stage, and how it impacted the Games:

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