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{{2006 Winter Olympics}}
 
The '''2006 Winter Olympics''' ({{lang-it|2006 Olimpiadi invernali}}), officially the '''XX Olympic Winter Games''' ({{lang-it|XX Giochi olimpici invernali}}) and also known as '''Torino 2006''', were a winter [[multi-sport event]] held from 10 to 26 February 2006 in [[Turin]], Italy. This marked the second time Italy had hosted the [[Winter Olympic Games|Winter Olympics]], the first being in [[1956 Winter Olympics|1956]] in [[Cortina d'Ampezzo]]; Italy had also hosted the [[Summer Olympic Games|Summer Olympics]] in [[1960 Summer Olympics|1960]] in [[Rome]].
 
Turin was selected as the host city for the 2006 Games in June 1999. The official motto of Torino 2006 was "Passion lives here".<ref name="Motto">{{cite web|url=http://www.torino2006.org/ENG/OlympicGames/bin/page/C_3_page_eng_283_paragraphs_paragrafo_0_attachments_allegato_7_object.pdf |title=Italian Passion in the Motto of Torino 2006 |work=Torino 2006 |access-date=18 April 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080216091149/http://www.torino2006.org/ENG/OlympicGames/bin/page/C_3_page_eng_283_paragraphs_paragrafo_0_attachments_allegato_7_object.pdf |archive-date=16 February 2008 }}</ref> The Games' logo depicted a stylized profile of the [[Mole Antonelliana]] building, drawn in white and blue ice crystals, signifying the snow and the sky. The crystal web was also meant to portray the web of new technologies and the Olympic spirit of community. The 2006 Olympic mascots were Neve ("snow" in Italian), a female [[snowball]], and Gliz, a male [[ice cube]].<ref name="Mascots">{{cite web|url=http://www.olympic.org/uk/games/torino/open_mascotte_uk.asp |title=Torino 2006 Mascots |publisher=[[International Olympic Committee|IOC]] |website=olympic.org |access-date=18 April 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100526214256/http://www.olympic.org/uk/games/torino/open_mascotte_uk.asp |archive-date=26 May 2010 |url-status=live }}</ref>
 
Italy willis scheduled to host the Winter Olympics again exactly 20 years later in [[2026 Winter Olympics|Winter Olympics in 2026]], scheduled to be held in [[Milan]] and [[Cortina d'Ampezzo]], 20 years after the 2006 event.
 
==Host city selection==
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The full IOC Session then voted on the cities chosen as finalist cities by the Selection College. Although six European cities presented their projects. Only two would advance to the final stage, which was the choice of the host city. At the first phase, all had to make the preliminary presentation in full IOC Session. All the members of the Selection College had to be present at the audience and it was their responsibility to decide which would be the two finalists. They decided that the cities were: the big favorite [[Sion, Switzerland|Sion]] and the dark horse of the process: [[Turin]].<ref name="Bid archives" /> The bids of [[Helsinki]], Finland; [[Poprad|Poprad-Tatry]], Slovakia; [[Zakopane]], Poland; and [[Klagenfurt]], Austria were dropped by the Selection College after all six bidding cities made their presentations.<ref name="Election IOC">{{cite web|url=http://www.olympic.org/uk/games/torino/election_uk.asp |title=Turin 2006—Election |publisher=[[International Olympic Committee]] |access-date=19 April 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100609164614/http://www.olympic.org/uk/games/torino/election_uk.asp |archive-date=9 June 2010 |url-status=live }}</ref>
 
The selection of Turin over Sion came as a surprise around the world since the Swiss city was seen as the overwhelming favorite in part because the IOC had their headquarters in Switzerland.<ref name="Sion favorite">{{cite news|work=USA Today |url=https://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/2006-10-18-hodler-obit_x.htm |title=Olympic corruption whistle-blower Hodler dies |date=18 October 2006 |access-date=19 April 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604100427/http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/2006-10-18-hodler-obit_x.htm |archive-date=4 June 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref> Some analysts attribute the choice of Turin as a reaction to Swiss IOC member [[Marc Hodler]]'s role in exposing the [[2002 Winter Olympic bid scandal|bribery scandal]] surrounding [[Salt Lake City]]'s bid for the 2002 Winter Olympics<ref name="Whistleblower">{{cite news|publisher=Associated Press/[[ESPN]] |url=http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/winter02/gen/news?id=1340126 |title=Italian city prepares for next Winter Olympics |date=24 February 2002 |access-date=19 April 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604100518/http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/winter02/gen/news?id=1340126 |archive-date=4 June 2011 |url-status=livedead }}</ref>
 
The information below comes from the International Olympic Committee Vote History {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080525070757/http://www.aldaver.com/votes.html |date= 25 May 2008 }} web page.
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| style="background:silver;"|'''Round 1'''
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|'''[[Turin]]'''|| '''{{ITA}} '''|| style="text-align:center;" |'''53'''
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|[[Sion, Switzerland|Sion]]|| {{CHE}} || style="text-align:center;"|36
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==Cost and cost overrun==
''The Oxford Olympics Study'' established the outturn cost of the Torino 2006 Winter Olympics at US $4.4 billion in 2015-dollars and cost overrun at 80% in real terms.<ref>{{Cite book|ssrn=2804554|title=The Oxford Olympics Study 2016: Cost and Cost Overrun at the Games|last1=Flyvbjerg|first1=Bent|last2=Stewart|first2=Allison|last3=Budzier|first3=Alexander|publisher=Saïd Business School Working Papers (Oxford: University of Oxford)|year=2016|location=Oxford|pages=9–13}}</ref> This includes sports-related costs only, that is, (i) ''operational costs'' incurred by the organizing committee for the purpose of staging the Games, e.g., expenditures for technology, transportation, workforce, administration, security, catering, ceremonies, and medical services, and (ii) ''direct capital costs'' incurred by the host city and country or private investors to build, e.g., the competition venues, the Olympic village, international broadcast center, and media and press center, which are required to host the Games. Indirect capital costs are ''not'' included, such as for road, rail, or airport infrastructure, or for hotel upgrades or other business investment incurred in preparation for the Games but not directly related to staging the Games. The cost and cost overrun for Torino 2006 compares with costs of US$2.5 billion and a cost overrun of 13% for Vancouver 2010, and costs of US$51 billion and a cost overrun of 289% for Sochi 2014, the latter being the most costly Olympics to date. Average cost for Winter Games since 1960 is US$3.1 billion, average cost overrun is 142%.
 
==Sports==
{{Main|Events at the 2006 Winter Olympics}}
The 2006 Winter Olympics featured 84 medal events over 15 disciplines in 7 sports.<ref name="Turin 2006 IOC">{{cite web |url=http://olympic.org/uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=2&OLGY=2006 |title=Turin 2006—XXth Olympic Winter Games |publisher=[[International Olympic Committee]] |access-date=18 April 2007 |archive-date=9 June 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060609161212/http://olympic.org/uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=2&OLGY=2006 |url-status=live }}</ref> EventsUnlike thatthe madeprevious theirfour Olympiceditions debutof the Winter Games, no new sport/discipline was introduced. Eight new events were added in Turindisciplines includedalready on the Olympic program, including mass start in biathlon, team sprint in cross-country skiing, snowboardboarder cross in snowboard, and team pursuit in speed skating, all with both men's and women's competitions.<ref name="Events">{{cite web |url=http://multimedia.olympic.org/pdf/en_report_851.pdf |title=Factsheet—Olympic Winter Programme |date=7 February 2007 |publisher=[[International Olympic Committee]] |access-date=18 April 2007| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070418115011/http://multimedia.olympic.org/pdf/en_report_851.pdf| archive-date=18 April 2007| url-status= dead}}</ref> MostThe ofInternational theSki cross-countryFederation skiingintroduced eventsan atalternating thesesystem Gamesfor involvedcross-country differentskiing distancesstyles fromin thosecertain at the [[2002 Winter Olympics|previous Winter Games in 2002]]events. TheLong-distance classicalraces men's 50(30&nbsp;km andfor women's 30and 50&nbsp;km distances,for whichmen) were held at Salt Lake 2002,that were not includedcontested in these Games, as these events were alternated with freestyle events of the sameclassic distances.<ref>''Instyle the recent years,during the Freestyle[[2002 eventsWinter andOlympics]] thewere Classicfreestyle events havein been switched each Olympic GamesTorino.''</ref>
 
The following list shows the sports and disciplines that were contested at the 2006 Games.:
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# '''Biathlon'''
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|style="width:2.5em; background:#ffcc00; text-align:center"|'''1''' ||Event finals
|style="width:2.5em; background:#ffdead; text-align:center"|'''EG'''||Exhibition gala
|style="width:2.5em; background:#ee3333FF8888; text-align:center"|'''CC'''||Closing ceremony
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!Events
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| colspan=2|[[File:Olympic Rings Icon.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] Ceremonies ||bgcolor=#00cc33 align=center|'''[[2006 Winter Olympics opening ceremony|OC]]'''|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||bgcolor=#ee3333FF8888 align=center|'''[[2006 Winter Olympics closing ceremony|CC]]'''||
|- align="center"
| colspan=2 align="left" | [[Image:Alpine skiing pictogram.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] [[Alpine skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics|Alpine skiing]]
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Number of athletes sent from participating NOCs: 1–9; blue: 10–49; orange: 50–99; red: 100 or more.]]
A record 80 [[National Olympic Committee]]s (NOCs) entered athletes at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. This was an increase of two from the 78 represented at the [[2002 Olympic Winter Games]]. The number in parentheses indicates the number of participants that NOC contributed. It was the first appearance for Albania, Ethiopia and Madagascar. It was the only appearance at the Winter Olympics for [[Serbia and Montenegro]], coming between the country's name change in 2003 from the [[Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]] and Montenegro's then-pending [[2006 Montenegrin independence referendum|vote for independence]] in May 2006. Algeria returned to the Winter games after a 14-year absence, Senegal returned to the Winter games after a 12-year absence, and Luxembourg, North Korea and Portugal returned after 8 years. Six countries, Cameroon, Fiji, Jamaica, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Trinidad and Tobago which were at the 2002 Games, did not participate in 2006.
 
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=== Number of athletes by National Olympic Committee ===
2,494 [[athlete]]s from 80 [[National Olympic Committee|NOCs]] participated in the 2006 Winter Olympics.
 
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! [[List of IOC country codes|IOC Letter Code]]
! Country
! Athletes
|-
| ALB || {{flagIOC|ALB|2006 Winter}} || 1
|-
| ALG || {{flagIOC|ALG|2006 Winter}} || 2
|-
| AND || {{flagIOC|AND|2006 Winter}} || 3
|-
| ARG || {{flagIOC|ARG|2006 Winter}} || 9
|-
| ARM || {{flagIOC|ARM|2006 Winter}} || 5
|-
| AUS || {{flagIOC|AUS|2006 Winter}} || 40
|-
| AUT || {{flagIOC|AUT|2006 Winter}} || 73
|-
| AZE || {{flagIOC|AZE|2006 Winter}} || 2
|-
| BLR || {{flagIOC|BLR|2006 Winter}} || 28
|-
| BEL || {{flagIOC|BEL|2006 Winter}} || 4
|-
| BER || {{flagIOC|BER|2006 Winter}} || 1
|-
| BIH || {{flagIOC|BIH|2006 Winter}} || 6
|-
| BRA || {{flagIOC|BRA|2006 Winter}} || 9
|-
| BUL || {{flagIOC|BUL|2006 Winter}} || 21
|-
| CAN || {{flagIOC|CAN|2006 Winter}} || 191
|-
| CHI || {{flagIOC|CHI|2006 Winter}} || 9
|-
| CHN || {{flagIOC|CHN|2006 Winter}} || 73
|-
| CRC || {{flagIOC|CRC|2006 Winter}} || 1
|-
| CRO || {{flagIOC|CRO|2006 Winter}} || 23
|-
| CYP || {{flagIOC|CYP|2006 Winter}} || 1
|-
| CZE || {{flagIOC|CZE|2006 Winter}} || 83
|-
| DEN || {{flagIOC|DEN|2006 Winter}} || 4
|-
| EST || {{flagIOC|EST|2006 Winter}} || 26
|-
| ETH || {{flagIOC|ETH|2006 Winter}} || 1
|-
| FIN || {{flagIOC|FIN|2006 Winter}} || 90
|-
| FRA || {{flagIOC|FRA|2006 Winter}} || 82
|-
| GEO || {{flagIOC|GEO|2006 Winter}} || 3
|-
| GER || {{flagIOC|GER|2006 Winter}} || 155
|-
| GBR || {{flagIOC|GBR|2006 Winter}} || 39
|-
| GRE || {{flagIOC|GRE|2006 Winter}} || 5
|-
| HKG || {{flagIOC|HKG|2006 Winter}} || 1
|-
| HUN || {{flagIOC|HUN|2006 Winter}} || 19
|-
| ISL || {{flagIOC|ISL|2006 Winter}} || 5
|-
| IND || {{flagIOC|IND|2006 Winter}} || 4
|-
| IRI || {{flagIOC|IRI|2006 Winter}} || 2
|-
| IRL || {{flagIOC|IRL|2006 Winter}} || 4
|-
| ISR || {{flagIOC|ISR|2006 Winter}} || 5
|-
| ITA || {{flagIOC|ITA|2006 Winter}} || 179
|-
| JPN || {{flagIOC|JPN|2006 Winter}} || 110
|-
| KAZ || {{flagIOC|KAZ|2006 Winter}} || 55
|-
| KEN || {{flagIOC|KEN|2006 Winter}} || 1
|-
| PRK || {{flagIOC|PRK|2006 Winter}} || 6
|-
| KOR || {{flagIOC|KOR|2006 Winter}} || 40
|-
| KGZ || {{flagIOC|KGZ|2006 Winter}} || 1
|-
| LAT || {{flagIOC|LAT|2006 Winter}} || 57
|-
| LIB || {{flagIOC|LIB|2006 Winter}} || 3
|-
| LIE || {{flagIOC|LIE|2006 Winter}} || 5
|-
| LTU || {{flagIOC|LTU|2006 Winter}} || 7
|-
| LUX || {{flagIOC|LUX|2006 Winter}} || 1
|-
| MKD || {{flagIOC|MKD|2006 Winter}} || 3
|-
| MAD || {{flagIOC|MAD|2006 Winter}} || 1
|-
| MDA || {{flagIOC|MDA|2006 Winter}} || 6
|-
| MON || {{flagIOC|MON|2006 Winter}} || 4
|-
| MGL || {{flagIOC|MGL|2006 Winter}} || 2
|-
| NEP || {{flagIOC|NEP|2006 Winter}} || 1
|-
| NED || {{flagIOC|NED|2006 Winter}} || 33
|-
| NZL || {{flagIOC|NZL|2006 Winter}} || 15
|-
| NOR || {{flagIOC|NOR|2006 Winter}} || 67
|-
| POL || {{flagIOC|POL|2006 Winter}} || 45
|-
| POR || {{flagIOC|POR|2006 Winter}} || 1
|-
| ROU || {{flagIOC|ROU|2006 Winter}} || 25
|-
| RUS || {{flagIOC|RUS|2006 Winter}} || 174
|-
| SMR || {{flagIOC|SMR|2006 Winter}} || 1
|-
| SEN || {{flagIOC|SEN|2006 Winter}} || 1
|-
| SCG || {{flagIOC|SCG|2006 Winter}} || 6
|-
| SVK || {{flagIOC|SVK|2006 Winter}} || 58
|-
| SLO || {{flagIOC|SLO|2006 Winter}} || 36
|-
| RSA || {{flagIOC|RSA|2006 Winter}} || 3
|-
| ESP || {{flagIOC|ESP|2006 Winter}} || 16
|-
| SWE || {{flagIOC|SWE|2006 Winter}} || 106
|-
| SUI || {{flagIOC|SUI|2006 Winter}} || 125
|-
| TPE || {{flagIOC|TPE|2006 Winter}} || 1
|-
| TJK || {{flagIOC|TJK|2006 Winter}} || 1
|-
| THA || {{flagIOC|THA|2006 Winter}} || 1
|-
| TUR || {{flagIOC|TUR|2006 Winter}} || 6
|-
| UKR || {{flagIOC|UKR|2006 Winter}} || 52
|-
| USA || {{flagIOC|USA|2006 Winter}} || 204
|-
| UZB || {{flagIOC|UZB|2006 Winter}} || 4
|-
| VEN || {{flagIOC|VEN|2006 Winter}} || 1
|-
| ISV || {{flagIOC|ISV|2006 Winter}} || 1
|}
 
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==Controversies==
The Games had issues with costs covering costs and international attendance. Due to a lack of funding by the Italian Government, TOROC risked dissolution.
 
===Metro===
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List of athletes with doping convictions in these Games:
* Russian [[Olga Medvedtseva|Olga Pyleva]] was stripped of her silver and other medals in the 15&nbsp;km biathlon event after testing positive for [[carphedon]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,185095,00.html|title=Russian Biathlete Expelled From Torino for Doping {{!}} Fox News|website=[[Fox News]] |date=16 February 2006|language=en-US|access-date=6 August 2016|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120703025129/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,185095,00.html|archive-date=3 July 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* Brazilian bobsled athlete [[Armando dos Santos (bobsleigh)|Armando dos Santos]], ejected from the Games after a preventive antidoping test came positive (the results were from a test conducted in Brazil).<ref name="AdS2006">{{cite web|title=Dos Santos expelled from Brazilian bobsled team for doping|url=httphttps://sportswww.espn.go.com/espn/print?id=2330182&type=story|agency=Associated Press|access-date=22 February 2009|archive-date=26 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121026072636/http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/print?id=2330182&type=story|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
The IOC has retested nearly 500 doping samples that were collected at the 2006 Turin Games. In 2014, the Estonian Olympic Committee was notified by the IOC that a retested sample from cross-country skier [[Kristina Šmigun]] had tested positive. On 24 October 2016, the [[World Anti-Doping Agency]] Athletes' Commission stated that Šmigun, who won two gold medals at the Turin Games, faces a [[Court of Arbitration for Sport]] hearing before the end of October.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1042965/smigun-vahi-facing-cas-hearing-after-positive-retest-at-turin-2006|title=Šmigun-Vähi facing CAS hearing after "positive" retest at Turin 2006|work=INSIDETHEGAMES.BIZ|first=Nick|last=Butler|date=24 October 2016|access-date=24 October 2016|publisher=Dunsar Media Company Limited|archive-date=25 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161025115726/http://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1042965/smigun-vahi-facing-cas-hearing-after-positive-retest-at-turin-2006|url-status=live}}</ref> In December 2017, IOC announced that re-analysis of samples resulted in no positive cases.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1059102/estonian-cross-country-skier-looks-to-be-in-clear-as-ioc-announce-no-positive-results-in-turin-2006-re-analysis|title=Estonian cross-country skier looks to be in clear as IOC announce no positive results in Turin 2006 re-analysis|date=13 December 2017|website=www.insidethegames.biz|first=Nick|last=Butler|access-date=21 February 2022|archive-date=21 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220221173207/https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1059102/estonian-cross-country-skier-looks-to-be-in-clear-as-ioc-announce-no-positive-results-in-turin-2006-re-analysis|url-status=live}}</ref>
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A number of events reported low spectator attendance despite having acceptable ticket sales.<!-- citation needed, although is a personal opinion --> Preliminary competition and locally less popular sports failed to attract capacity crowd as expected. Organizers explained this was because blocks of seats were reserved or purchased by sponsors and partners who later did not show up at the events.{{Citation needed|date=February 2010}}
 
Several news organizations reported that many Americans were not as interested in the Olympics as in years past.<ref name="Interest">{{cite news|title=Ciao to the Winter Games |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/26/AR2006022600137_pf.html |date=26 February 2006 |author=Shipley, Amy |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=19 April 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105125306/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/26/AR2006022600137_pf.html |archive-date=5 November 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref> It has been suggested that reasons for this lack of interest include the [[Broadcast delay|tape delayed]] coverage, which showed events in prime-time as much as 18 hours later in the Western United States.<ref name="Ratings">{{cite news|url=httphttps://sportswww.espn.go.com/olyolympics/winter06/columns/story?id=2345588 |title=The best, and real, drama is always at Olympics |date=26 February 2006 |publisher=[[ESPN]] |author=Caple, Jim |access-date=19 April 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111207030153/http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/winter06/columns/story?id=2345588 |archive-date=7 December 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref> Primetime viewing figures in Canada were also disappointing, especially after the early exit of the Canadian men's hockey team,<ref name="Canada ratings 2">{{cite news |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060223.wxolyblues0223_3/BNStory/Torino2006/home |title=Olympic hockey loss misses the net for CBC ratings |author1=McArthur, Keith |author2=Robertson, Grant |date=23 February 2006 |access-date=19 April 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160124113816/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060223.wxolyblues0223_3/BNStory/Torino2006/home |archive-date=24 January 2016 |url-status=dead |location=Toronto |work=The Globe and Mail }}</ref> though overall viewing figures were up from 2002.<ref name="Canada ratings">{{cite news |url=http://jam.canoe.ca/Television/2006/02/23/1457768.html |title=Olympics lose against fake games |author=Brioux, Bill |date=23 February 2006 |access-date=19 April 2007}} {{Dead link|date=September 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref>
 
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