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 | The Turin Olympic Games 2006 |
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The Turin Olympic Winter Games take place from the 10th to 26th February 2006 and you could be there!
Over a period of 17 days, 84 medals will be awarded to the winners from the 2,500 athletes taking part. Athletes and officials will be housed in 3 Olympic Villages: Torino, Bardonecchia and Sestriere and there will be seven main wintersports presented: Biathlon, Bobsleigh, Curling, Ice Hockey, Luge, Skating & Skiing.
The main snowsports sites will be Sestriere (Alpine), Sauze d'Oulx (Freestyle) and Bardonecchia (Snowboarding) with Cross Country being held at Pragelat and Biathlon at Cesano San Sicario.
The Figure Skating will be held in the Palavela, Turin and the Bobsleigh, Skelton and Luge will be held at Cesana Pariol.
For more information on venues and events please go to the official website: www.torino2006.org.
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 | Alpine Skiing | The Alpine Skiing events will be held in Sestriere which is 100km from Turin.
The Alpine Olymic events are as follows:
Men's Downhill - 12th Feb
Men's Downhill/Slalom Combined - 14th Feb
Men's Super-G - 18th Feb
Men's Giant Slalom - 20th Feb
Men's Slalom - 25th Feb
Women's Downhill - 15th Feb
Women's Downhill/Slalom Combined - 17th Feb
Women's Super-G - 19th Feb
Women's Giant Slalom - 24th Feb
Women's Slalom - 22nd Feb
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 | Freestyle Skiing |
The Freestyle events will be held in Sauze d'Oulx which is 83 kilometres from Turin in the upper Susa Valley.
The freestyle Olympic disciplines are as follows:
Ladies's Moguls - 11th Feb
Men's Moguls - 15th Feb
Ladies Aerials - 19th, 22nd Feb
Men's Aerials - 20th, 23rd Feb
Directions for getting to Sauze d'Oulx
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 | Snowboarding |
The Snowboard events will be held in Bardonecchia which is approximately 90km from Turin.
The Olympic snowboard events are as follows:
Men's Parallel Giant Slalom - 22nd Feb
Women's Parallel Giant Slalom - 23rd Feb
Men's Half Pipe - 12th Feb
Women's Half Pipe - 13th Feb
Men's Snowboard Cross, - 16th Feb
Women's Snowboard Cross- 17th Feb
Directions for getting to Bardonnecchia
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