2006 Turin Winter Olympics -  Calendar of Events

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The XX Olympic Winter Games will be held in Turin, Italy from February 10 to 26 in 2006. There will be 84 events in 15 sports : alpine skiing - biathlon - bobsleigh - cross-country skiing - curling - figure skating - freestyle skiing - ice hockey - luge - nordic combined - Short track speed skating - Skeleton - Ski jumping - Snowboarding - Speed skating

Calendar

This will be the second time that Italy will host the Olympic Winter Games, as it hosted the VII Olympic Winter Games in Cortina d'Ampezzo in 1956, and the third time overall that Italy will host an Olympic Games, as it also staged the Games of the XVII Olympiad in Rome in 1960.

Turin was chosen as the host of the Olympics in 1999, defeating Sion (Switzerland), 53 votes to 36. This was just after the IOC had adopted new election procedures during the 108th Extraordinary IOC Session in light of the corruption scandals surrounding the votes for the 1998 and 2002 Winter Olympics.

Since IOC members were forbidden to visit the candidate cities, the 109th IOC Session elected a special body, the Selection College, to choose finalist cities from the pool of candidate cities after each had made their final presentations to the full IOC Session; the full IOC Session will then vote on the cities chosen as finalist cities by the Selection College.

Although six cities launched candidacies and made presentations to the full IOC Session in Seoul in June 1999, the Selection College chose only two cities to go forward to be voted upon by the full IOC Session: Sion and Turin. The candidacies of Helsinki, Finland; Poprad-Tatry, Slovakia; Zakopane, Poland; and Klagenfurt, Austria were dropped by the Selection College after all six candidate cities made their candidate presentations to the full session

According to the Turin Web Site confirms that there are to be 85 National Olympic Committees present at the 2006 Winter Olympics

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Olympic villages

• Bardonecchia

• Sestriere

• Torino

Venues

 Sports/Events
 

Nations

85 nations will have athletes present in Torino.

• Albania, Andorra, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan
• Belarus, Belgium, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia-Herz., Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria
• Canada, Chile, China PR, Chinese Taipei (Taiwan), Colombia, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus,
  Czech Republic
• Denmark
• Estonia
• Finland, France
• Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Great Britain, Greece
• Hungary
• Iceland, Iran IR, Ireland, Italy
• Japan
• Kazakhstan, Korea, Korea DPR
• Latvia, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg
• Macedonia FYR, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia
• Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway
• Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal
• Romania, Russia
• San Marino, Serbia-Montenegro, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain
  Sweden, Switzerland
• Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan
• Ukraine, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan

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