A general view of the Bird's Nest stadium, the venue for opening and closing ceremonies for the 2022 Winter Olympics. Lintao Zhang/Getty Images Updated 2024-08-01T15:34:48Z ...

While Johnson East's 2008 Summer Olympics didn't take place in Greece, the Panathenaic Stadium was built in antiquity and is where the Olympic games were held in the late 1800s and again in 2004.