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TORINO 2006 Winter Olympic
On 19 June 1999 in Seoul, Korea, the 109th IOC Session elected Turin, Italy as the Host City for the
XX Olympic Winter Games in 2006 from a total of six Candidate Cities. Six cities put forward bids
for the 2006 Winter Games. They were (in alphabetical order): Helsinki (FIN), Klagenfurt (AUT),
Poprad-Tatry (SVK), Sion (SUI), Turin (ITA), and Zakopane (POL).
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Back at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Germany won the medal derby with 36, followed by the United States
with 34 and Norway with 25. The rest of the totals were Canada (17), Austria (17), Russia (13), Italy (13), France (11),
Switzerland (11), China (8), Holland (8), Finland (7), Sweden (7), and Korea Republic (4).
TORINO Winter Olympics General Facts & Figures
The Olympic Flame at TurinThe 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin, Italy, with the opening ceremony at the Stadio Olimpico.
The opening ceremonies were the last ones for a Winter Olympics to be held outdoors until at least the 2014 Winter Olympics
because those for the 2010 Winter Olympics will be held indoors.
Norway's Hilde Pedersen became the oldest woman to win an Olympic Winter Games medal when she took bronze in the cross-country
skiing 10-km classical event in 2006 winters games.
Pedersen is 41 years old and 189 days when she became the oldest womaen to win a Medal.
The previous oldest winner of a women's individual medal was Finland's Marja-Liisa Kirvisniemi,
who took a bronze in the 30-km event at the Lillehammer Games in 1994 at the age of 38 years 167 days.
Raissa Smetanina remains the oldest winner of a gold medal however with her victory in the
4x5-km relay at Albertville in 1992 aged 39 years and 354 days.
you can bet on which country will walk away from Turin with the most gold-colored medals around their athletes' necks.
Norway is currently listed as the favorite at 11/10, followed by Germany at 5/4 and the United States at 11/5.
Here is the complete list of current odds:
Norway led the way with 13 gold medals at Salt Lake City, followed by Germany (12), and the United States (10).
Canada won seven gold medals back in 2002, Russia won five, and no other country won more than four.
If you're more interested in betting on individual Olympic events, Sportbet Olympic betting offers
men's hockey Olympic odds. The Canadians, winners of the 2004 World Cup of Hockey and the 2002 Winter
Olympics tournament, are pegged as 6/5 favorites in Turin. The Czech Republic are next at 5/2, followed
by Sweden (4/1), Russia (5/1), the United States (5/1), Slovakia (10/1), and Finland (12/1). Longshots for
the event are Switzerland (70/1), Germany (200/1), Latvia (200/1), Italy (400/1), and Kazakhstan (450/1).
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