Turin 2006 - Olympic Games Winners

Start:

10 Feb 2006

End:

26 Feb 2006

Countries:

Athletes:

2508

Women:

960

Events:

City:

Turin, Italy

For the 2006 Winter Olympics, the IOC introduced a new selection process which prohibited visits by IOC members to 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 margin.
The other candidate cities were Helsinki, Finland, Klagenfurt, Austria, Poprad-Tatry, Slovakia and Zakopane, Poland.

President of Italy Carlo Azaglio Ciampi officially opened the 20 Winter Olympic games 2006.
In Figure skating Chinese pair Dan Zhang and Hao Zhang skated their freeskate program, but Dan Zhang injured her left knee and crashed into the sideboard, when she attempted a throw quadruple salchow. The next few minutes the music was stopped, but athletes came back to complete their program and, eventually, they won a silver medal.
1,200 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.
At the last day, Italian skier Giorgio Di Centa, who won 50km race, got his gold medal from his sister Manuela Di Centa, a multi-time Olympic medalist and a member of the IOC now.