2006 Winter Olympics

XX Olympic Winter Games

Emblem of the 2006 Winter Olympics
Host city	Turin, Italy
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
Opened by	President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
Cauldron	Stefania Belmondo
Stadium	Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino
Winter ← Salt Lake 2002 Vancouver 2010 → Summer ← Athens 2004 Beijing 2008 → 2006 Winter Paralympics

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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.