|  |  | 
  
  
    |  | XX Winter Games2006 - Torino, Italy |  |  
 
  
  
    | 
      
        | Dates: | 10 - 26 February 
        2006 |  
        | Participating Countries: |  |  
        | Number of Sports: |  |  
        | Number of Events: |  |  
        | Number of Athletes: |  |  
        | Male: |  |  
        | Female: |  |  
        | Final Torch Bearer: |  |  
        |  |  
        |  |  | 
 | Related Links 
      While it's still early to know anything 
      definite, we would like to go to Italy in 2006. Perhaps we'll see you 
      there! If anyone from Italy is 
        coming to Richmond, Virginia, we would love to meet you and show you around 
        our lovely city. |    
  Congratulations to Torino, Italy on being
  selected to host the 2006 games. 
  The host city of the XX Olympic Winter Games in 2006 was selected
  during the 109th IOC Session in Seoul. The
  election of Turin was a historic event for the IOC who created a Selection
  College to narrow the list of six Candidate Cities to two finalists. Sion and
  Torino then went before the full IOC membership for the final vote. 
    
    Torino 53
    votesSion 36 votes
 The bids submitted to the IOC were: 
  
    Sion, SwitzerlandTorino, ItalyZakopane, PolandPoprad-Tatry, SlovakiaHelsinki, Finland and Lillehammer, Norway
      (joint bid)Klagenfurt, Austria, in a three-country bid
      with regions of Slovenia and Italy.
     |