Well, this certainly is a way to phrase it

[conuly]

The 1916 (Olympic) games were cancelled due to an international dispute occurring during that year

A dispute that left millions dead, sure. Not how I'd describe WWI, but okay.

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[redbird]

Yeah, that's a "technically correct" answer, like saying the population of Boston is more than a hundred, or less than a billion.

It also feels like the kind of answer someone would give on a quiz, hoping for partial credit.

[adafrog]

Nuts.

[silveradept]

It's not Wikipedia, but the Athens Games of 2008 had the best way of acknowledging the interruptions that I have seen in a program. They had someone running with the Olympic flag as the dates of the Summer Games went by.

"World War I" was spoken in the name of the Games that year, and the runner (deliberately) faceplanted. And did the same for "World War II."

There are probably some other time periods the runner could have done the same for, and a few more in our time, but that seems better than calling either of the great wars an "international dispute."

[hudebnik]

"Once all the Germans were warlike, and mean /
But that couldn't happen again. /
We taught them a lesson in 1918 /
And they've hardly bothered us since then."

-- "The MLF Lullaby", Tom Lehrer, some time in the 1960's.