High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1928 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the IX Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1928 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Amsterdam had bid for the 1920 and 1924 Olympic Games, but had to give way to war-victim Antwerp, Belgium, and Pierre de Coubertin`s Paris, respectively. The only other candidate city for the 1928 Games was Los Angeles, which would host the Olympics four years later.