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 Emblem of the 2006 Winter Olympics | |
| Location | Turin, Italy |
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| Motto | Passion Lives Here (Italian: La passione vive qui) |
| Nations | 80 |
| Athletes | 2,494 (1,539 men and 955 women) |
| Events | 84 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) |
| Opening | 10 February 2006 |
| Closing | 26 February 2006 |
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| Cauldron | |
| Stadium | Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino |
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The 2006 Winter Olympics (Italian: 2006 Olimpiadi invernali), officially the XX Olympic Winter Games (Italian: XX Giochi olimpici invernali) and also known as Torino 2006, were a winter multi-sport event held from 10 to 26 February in Turin, Italy. This marked the second time Italy had hosted the Winter Olympics, the first being in 1956 in Cortina d'Ampezzo; Italy had also hosted the Summer Olympics in 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".[1] 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.[2]
Italy is scheduled to host the Winter Olympics in 2026 in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, 20 years after the 2006 event and the city will host the speed skating events of the 2030 Winter Olympics with a project shared with the neighbour region of the French Alps.[3]
- ^ "Italian Passion in the Motto of Torino 2006" (PDF). Torino 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 February 2008. Retrieved 18 April 2007.
- ^ "Torino 2006 Mascots". olympic.org. IOC. Archived from the original on 26 May 2010. Retrieved 18 April 2007.
- ^ "Olimpiadi invernali 2030: a Torino le gare del pattinaggio di velocità". 27 July 2024. Retrieved 30 July 2024.