Ilmari Sysimetsä, 1952Finnish artist Ilmari Sysimetsä did this design for the 1940 Olympic Games in Helsinki. They had been scheduled to take place in Tokyo from September to October, but political unrest caused by the ongoing Sino-Japanese war led them to be rescheduled for July to August in Helsinki, only to be suspended indefinitely following the outbreak of the second world war. Helsinki finally hosted the Games in 1952