Turin 2006 - Olympic Games Winners

Start:

10 Feb 2006

End:

26 Feb 2006

Countries:

Athletes:

2508

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City:

Turin, Italy

For the 2006 Winter Olympics, the IOC introduced a new selection process that prohibited IOC members from visiting the candidate sites.
In June 1999, at the 109th IOC session in Seoul, Torino, Italy was awarded the 20 Winter Olympic Games over Sion, Switzerland, by a 53-36 vote.
The other candidate cities were Helsinki, Finland; Klagenfurt, Austria; Poprad-Tatry, Slovakia and Zakopane, Poland.

The President of Italy Carlo Azaglio Ciampi officially opened the 20th Winter Olympic Games 2006.
In Figure skating, Chinese pair Dan ZHANG and Hao ZHANG skated their free-skate program, but Dan Zhang injured her left knee and crashed into the sideboard when she attempted a throw quadruple salchow. The music was stopped in the next few minutes, but the athletes returned to complete their program and eventually won a silver medal.
Korean short track skater Hyun-soo AHN won 3 gold and 1 bronze medal. His short track teammate Sun-yu JIN won three more gold medals.
German athlete Michael GREIS won three gold medals in Biathlon.
One thousand two hundred athletes were tested for doping in Turin, and there was only one positive result - Olga PYLEVA of Russia was stripped of a silver medal in Biathlon.
On the last day, Italian skier Giorgio DI CENTA, who won the 50 km race, received his gold medal from his sister Manuela Di CENTA, a multi-time Olympic medalist and now a member of the IOC.