2006 Winter Olympics - wikipedia 2006 Winter Olympics `` Torino 2006 '' and `` Turin 2006 '' redirect here. For the Winter Paralympics, see 2006 Winter Paralympics. XX Olympic Winter Games The emblem shows a stylized profile of the Mole Antonelliana, drawn in ice crystals in white and blue, signifying the snow and the sky. The crystal web also portrays the web of new technologies and the Olympic spirit of community. Host city Turin, Italy Motto Passion lives here Nations participating 80 Athletes participating 2,508 ( 1,548 men ; 960 women ) Events 84 in 7 sports ( 15 disciplines ) Opening ceremony February 10 Closing ceremony February 26 Officially opened by Carlo Azeglio Ciampi President of the Italian Republic Athlete 's Oath Giorgio Rocca Judge 's Oath Fabio Bianchetti Olympic Torch Stefania Belmondo Stadium Stadio Olimpico Winter < Salt Lake City 2002 Vancouver 2010 > Summer < Athens 2004 Beijing 2008 > Part of a series on 2006 Winter Olympics Bid process Venues Mascots Torch relay Opening ceremony ( flag bearers ) Medal table ( medalists ) Event calendar Chronological summary Closing ceremony Paralympics ( medal table ) IOC CONI TOROC The 2006 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XX Olympic Winter Games ( French : Les XX Jeux olympiques d'hiver, Italian : XX Giochi olimpici invernali ) and commonly known as Turin 2006 or Torino 2006, was a winter multi-sport event which was held in Turin, Piedmont, Italy from February 10 to 26, 2006. This marked the second time Italy hosted the Olympic Winter Games, the first being the VII Olympic Winter Games in Cortina d'Ampezzo in 1956. Italy also hosted the Games of the XVII Olympiad in Rome in 1960. Turin was selected as the host city for the 2006 games in June 1999. The official logo displayed the name `` Torino '', the Italian name of the city ; the city is known as `` Turin '' in both English and the local traditional language, Piedmontese. The Olympic mascots of the games were Neve ( `` snow '' in Italian ), a female snowball, and Gliz, a male ice cube. The official motto of the XX Olympic Winter Games was `` Passion lives here ''. Contents 1 Host city selection 2 Cost and cost overrun 3 Sports 4 Calendar 5 Medal table 6 Highlights 6.1 Day 1 ( Opening Ceremony ) 6.2 Day 2 6.3 Day 3 6.4 Day 4 6.5 Day 5 6.6 Day 6 6.7 Day 7 6.8 Day 8 6.9 Day 9 6.10 Day 10 6.11 Day 11 6.12 Day 12 6.13 Day 13 6.14 Day 14 6.15 Day 15 6.16 Day 16 6.17 Day 17 ( Closing ceremony ) 7 Venues 7.1 Olympic areas 7.1. 1 Turin 7.1. 2 Other locations 7.2 Olympic villages 7.3 Official Olympic training sites 7.4 Olympic mountain training site 8 Participating National Olympic Committees 9 Organization 9.1 Construction 9.2 Sponsors 10 Broadcasting rights 11 Controversies 11.1 Metro 11.2 Doping 11.3 Ratings and attendance 12 Olympic Legacy 13 Security measures 14 See also 15 Notes 16 External links Host city Selection `` Passion lives here '', the Turin 2006 motto written by the Italian calligrapher Francesca Biasetton. Main article : 2006 Winter Olympics bids Turin was chosen as the host of the Olympics on June 19, 1999, at the 109th IOC Session in Seoul, South Korea. This was after the IOC had adopted new election procedures during the 108th Extraordinary IOC Session in light of the corruption scandals surrounding the votes for the 1998 and 2002 Winter Olympics. Since IOC members were forbidden from visiting the candidate cities ( in the interests of reducing bribery ), the 109th IOC Session elected a special body, the Selection College, to choose finalist cities from the pool of candidate cities after each had made their final presentations to the full IOC Session. The full IOC Session then voted on the cities chosen as finalist cities by the Selection College. Although six cities launched candidacies and made presentations to the full IOC Session, the Selection College chose only two cities to go forward to be voted upon by the full IOC Session : Sion and Turin. The candidacies of Helsinki, Finland ; Poprad - Tatry, Slovakia ; Zakopane, Poland ; and Klagenfurt, Austria were dropped by the Selection College after all six candidate cities made their candidate presentations. The selection of Turin over Sion came as a surprise, since Sion was the overwhelming favorite in part because the IOC is based in Switzerland. Media speculation was that the choice of Turin was due to the IOC 's desire to retaliate against Switzerland for the whistleblower role played by IOC member Marc Hodler in the revelation of the 2002 corruption scandal. Turin 's selection came two years after Rome 's unsuccessful 2004 Summer Olympics bid. Those games were ultimately awarded to Athens, Greece. The information below comes from the International Olympic Committee Vote History web page. 2006 Winter Olympics bidding results City Country Round 1 Turin Italy 53 Sion Switzerland 36 Cost and cost overrun The Oxford Olympics Study established the outturn cost of the Torino 2006 Winter Olympics at USD 4.4 billion in 2015 - dollars and cost overrun at 80 % in real terms. This includes sports - related costs only, that is, ( i ) operational costs incurred by the organizing committee for the purpose of staging the Games, e.g., expenditures for technology, transportation, workforce, administration, security, catering, ceremonies, and medical services, and ( ii ) direct capital costs incurred by the host city and country or private investors to build, e.g., the competition venues, the Olympic village, international broadcast center, and media and press center, which are required to host the Games. Indirect capital costs are not included, such as for road, rail, or airport infrastructure, or for hotel upgrades or other business investment incurred in preparation for the Games but not directly related to staging the Games. The cost and cost overrun for Torino 2006 compares with costs of USD 2.5 billion and a cost overrun of 13 % for Vancouver 2010, and costs of USD 51 billion and a cost overrun of 289 % for Sochi 2014, the latter being the most costly Olympics to date. Average cost for Winter Games since 1960 is USD 3.1 billion, average cost overrun is 142 %. Sports Main article : Events at the 2006 Winter Olympics The Games featured 84 medal events over 15 disciplines in 7 sports. Events that made their Olympic debut in Turin included mass start biathlon, team sprint cross country skiing, snowboard cross and team pursuit speedskating. The classical men 's 50 km and women 's 30 km distances, which were held at the previous Winter Games in 2002, were not held in these Games, as these events were alternated with freestyle events of the same distances. Most of the cross country skiing events at these Games involved different distances from those in Salt Lake City. The following are the sports and disciplines that were contested at the games. The numbers in parentheses after each sport discipline indicate the number of events contested. Alpine skiing ( 10 ) ( details ) Biathlon ( 10 ) ( details ) Bobsleigh ( 3 ) ( details ) Cross-country skiing ( 12 ) ( details ) Curling ( 2 ) ( details ) Figure skating ( 4 ) ( details ) Freestyle skiing ( 4 ) ( details ) Ice hockey ( 2 ) ( details ) Luge ( 3 ) ( details ) Nordic combined ( 3 ) ( details ) Short track speed skating ( 8 ) ( details ) Skeleton ( 2 ) ( details ) Ski jumping ( 3 ) ( details ) Snowboarding ( 6 ) ( details ) Speed skating ( 12 ) ( details ) Calendar All dates are in Central European Time ( UTC + 1 ) OC Opening ceremony Event competitions Event finals EG Exhibition gala CC Closing ceremony February 10th Fri 11th Sat 12th Sun 13th Mon 14th Tue 15th Wed 16th Thu 17th Fri 18th Sat 19th Sun 20th Mon 21st Tue 22nd Wed 23rd Thu 24th Fri 25th Sat 26th Sun Events Ceremonies OC CC Alpine skiing 10 Biathlon 10 Bobsleigh Cross country skiing 12 Curling Figure skating EG Freestyle skiing Ice hockey Luge Nordic combined Short track speed skating 8 Skeleton Ski jumping Snowboarding 6 Speed skating 12 Total events 8 6 8 9 5 7 5 7 84 Cumulative total 12 16 22 26 34 37 46 49 54 58 65 70 74 81 84 February 10th Fri 11th Sat 12th Sun 13th Mon 14th Tue 15th Wed 16th Thu 17th Fri 18th Sat 19th Sun 20th Mon 21st Tue 22nd Wed 23rd Thu 24th Fri 25th Sat 26th Sun Events Medal table Main article : 2006 Winter Olympics medal table Victory ceremony at Medals Plaza Host country ( Italy ) To sort this table by nation, total medal count, or any other column, click on the icon next to the column title. Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total Germany ( GER ) 11 12 6 29 United States ( USA ) 9 9 7 25 Austria ( AUT ) 9 7 7 23 Russia ( RUS ) 8 6 8 22 5 Canada ( CAN ) 7 10 7 24 6 Sweden ( SWE ) 7 5 14 7 South Korea ( KOR ) 6 11 8 Switzerland ( SUI ) 5 5 14 9 Italy ( ITA ) 5 0 6 11 10 France ( FRA ) 9 10 Netherlands ( NED ) 9 Highlights Main article : Chronological summary of the 2006 Winter Olympics 2006 Olympics logo on display in Turin Day 1 ( Opening ceremony ) Stefania Belmondo, a 10 - time Olympic medalist in cross-country skiing, lit the Olympic Flame during the opening ceremony on February 10. Before that, the ceremony celebrated the best of Italy and Sport including a segment honoring the Alps. The FilmMaster Group K - events ( from March 2012 : Filmmaster Events ) created and produced the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the XX Winter Olympic Games in Turin in 2006. Executive Producer Marco Balich, Content Supervisor Alfredo Accatino, Art Direction Lida Castelli. Monica Maimone of Studio Festi directed the section From Renaissance To Baroque, part of the Opening Ceremony. Day 2 The first gold medal of the 2006 Games was awarded in the 20 kilometre biathlon, won by German Michael Greis on the first day of competition. Ice hockey began with the women 's competition ; Sweden defeated Russia 3 -- 1 in the first match while Canada 's team opened with the second most lopsided win in Olympic history by beating the host Italians 16 -- 0. Day 3 On February 12, Latvia won its first winter Olympic medal when Mārtiņš Rubenis took the bronze in the men 's luge. Armin Zöggeler 's win in that event gave Italy its first gold medal of the Games, and his fourth in a row. Both the Canadian and American women 's ice hockey teams posted their second straight shutout wins. Day 4 Chinese figure skating pair Zhang Dan and Zhang Hao, trailing a dominant Russian pair, attempted a throw quadruple salchow jump -- an element which had never been successfully completed in competition. Zhang Dan fell, injuring her knee, but the pair finished their program to a standing ovation and took the silver medal. Russia finished the third day of competition with two gold medals, as did the United States. Day 5 The fourth day saw the two North American women 's hockey teams finish out pool play with their third win each. Evgeni Plushenko of Russia set a world record score in the men 's figure skating short program ; his 90.66 points was more 10 points better than the nearest opponent 's score. The men 's combined alpine skiing was riddled with disqualifications, including front - runners Bode Miller and Benjamin Raich. American Ted Ligety won the event in what was considered an upset. Day 6 Canada had another strong day on February 15, setting new Olympic records in both men 's and women 's pursuit team speed skating events as well as opening the men 's ice hockey competition with a win against Italy. Italy finished the day with the men 's pursuit team Olympic record, however, after the Netherlands bettered Canada 's time only to have Italy improve upon theirs. China won its first gold of 2006 with Wang Meng 's victory in the women 's individual 500 - metre short track speed skating. A pair of Austrian brothers Andreas Linger and Wolfgang Linger won the men 's doubles luge while Michaela Dorfmeister gave the nation another championship in the women 's downhill. Day 7 Kristina Šmigun won her second gold medal of the Games with a victory in the women 's 10 kilometre classical cross-country skiing on February 16, remaining the only Estonian to medal. In men 's curling action, Great Britain edged Germany 7 -- 6, Switzerland kept New Zealand winless by winning 9 -- 7, Canada beat Norway 7 -- 6, and the United States defeated Sweden, 10 -- 6. LGBT figure skater Jeffrey Buttle from Canada won the bronze that year in fact, he is the only non-European man in the top 3 during the men 's individual. It was the only medals for him and Stéphane Lambiel from Switzerland. Day 8 On February 17, Tanja Frieden of Switzerland took the gold in women 's snowboard cross after Lindsey Jacobellis of the United States fell on the second - to - last jump while performing an unnecessary method grab. Jacobellis settled for silver, while Canada 's Dominique Maltais took bronze after recovering from a crash. Duff Gibson of Canada took gold in the skeleton just ahead of fellow Canadian Jeff Pain, becoming the oldest individual gold medalist in Winter Olympics history. Rodney Hiner of the United States took home the Bronze. In the women 's ice hockey semifinals, the United States lost a shootout to Sweden, marking the first time in international competition that the United States had lost to anyone other than Canada ( Canada 's win maintained its record of never having lost to anyone other than the United States ). Day 9 Kjetil André Aamodt won gold for Norway in the men 's Super G on February 18, beating Hermann Maier of Austria. Germans Kati Wilhelm and Martina Glagow finished first and second in the 10 kilometre biathlon pursuit. The host Italians defeated Canada in men 's curling, while Switzerland did the same in men 's ice hockey to put the Canadians on the wrong end of two major upsets in the same day. The United States men 's ice hockey team suffered its first loss of the tournament as Slovakia and Russia continue their dominance of the pool. Day 10 Lascelles Brown became the first Jamaican - born competitor to win a medal at the Winter Olympics on February 19, competing on the Canadian 2 - man bobsleigh team which finished second in an extremely tight competition. The German pair was only. 21 seconds ahead of the Canadians, themselves only. 14 ahead of the Swiss team. Finland continued to be unbeaten in men 's ice hockey, handing Canada its second loss. The day also saw the most hyped event of these games, at least in Europe, as the Men 's 10 km Cross Country Relay was scheduled. The battle stemmed from the Lillehammer games 12 years ago in which Italy out - dueled Norway in that very same event. To that extent, many Norwegians wanted to win this event in order to embarrass the Italians on their home turf, but it was not to be as Italy crushed the field winning over Germany by over 15 seconds to take their 5th straight gold in this event. Norway failed to medal for the first time since 1988. Day 11 The final day of curling pool play was February 20 ; Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and Canada advanced to the women 's semifinals while Finland, Canada, the United States, and Great Britain qualified in the men 's competition. Austria took their first team gold medal in ski jumping, while Canada took their second in women 's ice hockey to take a 2 -- 1 lead over the United States in all - time Olympic championships. Day 12 Slovakia and Finland both won their final men 's ice hockey games on February 21 to win their respective pools with 5 -- 0 -- 0 records. Enrico Fabris gave the host nation another gold medal in speed skating by winning the men 's 1500 metres. Day 13 On February 22, the twelfth day of competition, Anja Pärson won her first gold medal in the women 's slalom ; it was her fifth overall Olympic medal and third of the 2006 Games. Chandra Crawford took a quicker route to the top of the podium, winning the 1.1 kilometre cross-country sprint gold in her Olympic debut. In the men 's ice hockey quarterfinals, the previously undefeated Slovakians lost to the Czech Republic while Russia, Finland, and Sweden eliminated Canada, the United States, and Switzerland, respectively. Philipp Schoch successfully defended his snowboarding giant slalom gold against his brother Simon. Day 14 Sweden took the women 's championship in the curling finals held on February 23. Shizuka Arakawa gave Japan its first gold medal of the Games and first figure skating gold medal, winning the ladies ' figure skating competition in part by being able to finish without falling, as Sasha Cohen and Irina Slutskaya both tumbled. Russia wrested the gold medal in women 's team biathlon from two - time defending champions Germany. Day 15 February 24 was the day of the men 's curling finals, in which Canada won its first gold medal and the United States won its first medal in the sport as Canada defeated Finland and the United States beat Great Britain for the second time. The figure skating gala was also held, with top placers in all of the events performing exhibitions. Sweden and Finland won their men 's ice hockey semifinal games, defeating the Czech Republic and Russia. Day 16 The Austrians swept the men 's alpine slalom medals on February 25, led by Benjamin Raich. Germany took gold medals in the men 's 15 kilometer biathlon and the men 's individual bobsleigh. Apolo Anton Ohno won his second short track speed skating gold medal, with only somewhat less controversy than his first 4 years earlier. South Korea 's Jin Sun - Yu wins her third gold of the Games in the women 's 1000 m. Compatriot Ahn Hyun - Soo wins his third gold medal of the Games, medaling in every men 's short track event and bringing his total number of medals in Turin to four. Day 17 ( closing ceremony ) The final day of competition and the closing ceremony, were held on February 26. The Swedish men 's ice hockey team handed Finland their first loss in the final to take the gold medal. In the closing ceremony, Manuela Di Centa, a seven - time Olympic medalist from Italy and then - member of the International Olympic Committee, was scheduled to present the medals for the men 's 50 - kilometre cross-country skiing event. This resulted in her presenting the gold medal to her own brother when Giorgio Di Centa won the event to take his second gold medal. Venues Main article : Venues of the 2006 Winter Olympics Mole Antonelliana in Turin. Olympic areas Olympic events were mainly held in Turin, but other events ( namely skiing, snowboarding, and the track sports ) were held in mountainous outlying villages for obvious reasons. Turin Many venues were located in the Olympic District in central Turin, including : Oval Lingotto -- Speed skating Torino Esposizioni -- Ice hockey Palasport Olimpico -- Ice hockey ( final ) Stadio Olimpico -- Opening and closing ceremonies Palavela -- Figure skating, short - track speed skating Olympic Village Other locations Location of Turin ( Torino in Italian ) and some other venues Bardonecchia -- Snowboarding Cesana Pariol -- Bobsleigh, Luge, Skeleton Cesana San Sicario -- Biathlon Pinerolo -- Curling Pragelato -- Nordic combined ( ski jumping ), Ski jumping Pragelato Plan -- Cross-country skiing, Nordic combined ( cross-country skiing ) San Sicario Fraiteve -- Alpine skiing ( women 's combined ( downhill ), downhill, and super-g ) Sauze d'Oulx -- Freestyle skiing Sestriere Borgata -- Alpine skiing ( men 's combined ( downhill ), downhill, super-g ) Sestriere Colle -- Alpine skiing ( combined ( slalom ), giant slalom, slalom ) Olympic villages Bardonecchia Sestriere Turin Official Olympic training sites Chiomonte Claviere Prali Alpe Lusentino - Domodossola ( VB ) ( Alpine Skiing ) Riale - Formazza ( VB ) ( Nordic Skiing ) Olympic mountain training site Torre Pellice Participating National Olympic Committees Participating NOCs. Green : 1 -- 9 ; blue : 10 -- 49 ; orange : 50 -- 99 ; red : 100 or more. A record 80 National Olympic Committees ( NOCs ) entered athletes at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. This was an increase of two from the 78 represented at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. The number in parentheses indicates the number of participants that NOC contributed. It was the first appearance for Albania, Ethiopia and Madagascar. It was the only appearance at the Winter Olympics for Serbia and Montenegro, coming between their change of name in 2003 and Montenegro 's vote for independence in May. Participating National Olympic Committees Albania ( 1 ) Algeria ( 2 ) Andorra ( 3 ) Argentina ( 9 ) Armenia ( 5 ) Australia ( 40 ) Austria ( 85 ) Azerbaijan ( 2 ) Belarus ( 28 ) Belgium ( 4 ) Bermuda ( 1 ) Bosnia and Herzegovina ( 6 ) Brazil ( 10 ) Bulgaria ( 21 ) Canada ( 196 ) Chile ( 9 ) China ( 76 ) Costa Rica ( 1 ) Croatia ( 24 ) Cyprus ( 1 ) Czech Republic ( 85 ) Denmark ( 5 ) Estonia ( 26 ) Ethiopia ( 1 ) Finland ( 102 ) France ( 89 ) Georgia ( 3 ) Germany ( 164 ) Great Britain ( 40 ) Greece ( 5 ) Hong Kong ( 1 ) Hungary ( 20 ) Iceland ( 5 ) India ( 4 ) Iran ( 2 ) Ireland ( 4 ) Israel ( 5 ) Italy ( 184 ) ( host ) Japan ( 112 ) Kazakhstan ( 56 ) Kenya ( 1 ) North Korea ( 6 ) South Korea ( 40 ) Kyrgyzstan ( 1 ) Latvia ( 58 ) Lebanon ( 3 ) Liechtenstein ( 6 ) Lithuania ( 7 ) Luxembourg ( 1 ) Macedonia ( 3 ) Madagascar ( 1 ) Moldova ( 7 ) Monaco ( 4 ) Mongolia ( 2 ) Nepal ( 1 ) Netherlands ( 35 ) New Zealand ( 18 ) Norway ( 81 ) Poland ( 48 ) Portugal ( 1 ) Romania ( 25 ) Russia ( 178 ) San Marino ( 1 ) Senegal ( 1 ) Serbia and Montenegro ( 6 ) Slovakia ( 62 ) Slovenia ( 42 ) South Africa ( 3 ) Spain ( 16 ) Sweden ( 112 ) Switzerland ( 143 ) Chinese Taipei ( 1 ) Tajikistan ( 1 ) Thailand ( 1 ) Turkey ( 6 ) Ukraine ( 53 ) United States ( 211 ) Uzbekistan ( 4 ) Venezuela ( 1 ) Virgin Islands ( 1 ) Organization Out of 40,000 applicants, 20,000 volunteers were selected to help the athletes, spectators, and journalists, and to prepare the competition sites. They were selected by the recruiting program Noi2006. Construction Sixty - five sporting facilities, various infrastructures, sport villages for athletes and media, and transportation infrastructures were constructed for a total of 1.7 billion euros. Among the most important sporting facilities that were used : The Stadio Olimpico ( Turin ) ( formerly known as Stadio Comunale ) ; Five sports halls ( three new, two rearranged ) : the Palazzo a Vela re-designed by Gae Aulenti ( to host short track and ice skating ), the Oval Lingotto ( speed ice skating ), Torino Esposizioni ( ice hockey ), the Ice stadium in corso Tazzoli, the Palasport Olimpico designed by Arata Isozaki ( ice hockey ) ; The Olympic arch of Turin ; Olympic villages of Turin, Bardonecchia and Sestriere ; The ice stadium in Pinerolo, re-arranged and enlarged, to host the curling competition ; A new stadium in Torre Pellice ( ice hockey ) ; Twelve new intermediate - level ski lifts in Cesana Torinese, Cesana San Sicario, Sestriere, Bardonecchia, Claviere, Sauze d'Oulx, Pragelato ; The tracks for bobsled, luge, and skeleton in Cesana ( the second international track in Italy, along with the one in Cortina d'Ampezzo ) ; The most important transport infrastructure works were : The Turin Metro ( VAL system ), which for the Olympic games connected Collegno to the railway station of Porta Susa. The upgrade of 11 state roads and motorways connecting Turin with other Olympic sites, including the Motorway between Turin and Pinerolo, which was host to the Curling events. In the city, the main developments were the Palafuksas, a glass building designed by Massimiliano Fuksas, the new Modern Art Gallery and the great project of the `` Spina '', that will provide urban regeneration over an area of 2 million square meters through the construction of an underground urban railway and the re-utilization of abandoned industrial areas. Sponsors Sponsors of the 2006 Winter Olympics Worldwide Olympic Partners Atos Origin The Coca - Cola Company General Electric Kodak Lenovo Manulife McDonald 's Omega SA Panasonic Samsung Electronics Visa Inc. Main Sponsors Fiat Group Sanpaolo IMI Telecom Italia ( Telecom and TIM ) Official Sponsors Alfa Romeo Alpitour ASICS Berloni Anheuser - Busch Eutelsat Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane Jet Set Sports Johnson & Johnson Kyocera Lancia Leonardo - Finmeccanica Reale Mutua Assicurazioni Official Suppliers Adecco Group Automobile Club d'Italia A.T. Kearney Ceriel Cicrespi Cofatech Deutsche Bahn ( DB Schenker ) Europcar Fast - Buyer Fontanafredda Winery Garrett Metal Detectors Intercom Dr. Leitner Italcar Italgas Liski Nortel Ottaviani Pininfarina Recchi Seteco SITAF Technogym Ticketone TNT Express Broadcasting rights The 2006 Winter Olympic Games were broadcast worldwide by a number of television broadcasters : Country Broadcaster Ref Argentina TyC Asia APBU Australia Seven Network Brazil SporTV Canada CBC / Radio - Canada TSN RDS Caribbean CMC People 's Republic of China CCTV Chinese Taipei CTS TTV Estonia ETV Europe EBU Eurosport Finland Yle France France Télévisions Germany ARD ZDF Iceland RÚV Italy RAI Japan NHK Latin America OTI Malaysia RTM Astro Mexico Azteca Middle East ASBU Netherlands NOS New Zealand TVNZ Norway NRK Puerto Rico Telemundo Romania TVR Serbia and Montenegro RTS RTK South Africa SuperSport South Korea KBS SBS Sweden SVT Switzerland SRG SSR United Kingdom BBC United States NBC Controversies The Games had issues with costs covering and international attendance. Due to a lack of funding by the Italian Government, TOROC risked dissolution. American skier Bode Miller was also a focus of controversy in his home country and Canada, where his actions were not considered in line with the Olympic spirit. Metro The metro was finally opened to the public on February 4, 2006, after a 45 - day delay. It operated on a shorter stretch ( XVIII Dicembre ( Porta Susa ) to Fermi -- 11 stations ) than originally forecast ; it finally reached the main railway station ( Porta Nuova ) and the rest of the city centre more than one year after the Games, in October 2007. For the duration of the Games, a single ticket ( 5 euros ) covered use of both the metro and other means of public transportation for a whole day. However, during the Games, metro service stopped at 6 : 00 pm, making it impractical for spectators of evening events. Furthermore, the metro did not reach any of the Olympic venues. On the other hand, the bus service was heavily improved for the Games, although still inadequate at night hours. Doping During the games, Italian police raided the Austrian athletes ' quarters in search of evidence of blood doping. The raid was conducted due to suspicions over the presence of biathlon coach Walter Mayer, who had been banned from all Olympic events up to and including the Vancouver Olympic Games in 2010 due to previous doping convictions. Around the time of the raid Mayer and two Austrian biathletes, Wolfgang Perner and Wolfgang Rottmann, tried to escape and fled back to Austria. Later, the Austrian ski federation president said that the two athletes told him they `` may have used illegal methods ''. Six skiers and four biathletes were also taken for drug screens by the IOC. Those substance screens later returned negative results. On 25 April 2007, six Austrian athletes ( Roland Diethard, Johannes Eder, Wolfgang Perner, Jürgen Pinter, Wolfgang Rottmann and Martin Tauber ) were banned for life from the Olympics for their involvement in the doping scandal at the 2006 Turin Olympics, the first time the IOC punished athletes without a positive or missed doping test. The Austrians were found guilty of possessing doping substances and taking part in a conspiracy, based on materials seized by Italian police during the raid on the living quarters. The Austrians also had their competition results from Turin annulled. List of athletes with doping convictions in these Games : Russian Olga Medvedtseva was stripped of her silver and other medals in the 15 km biathlon event after testing positive for carphedon. Brazilian bobsled athlete Armando dos Santos, ejected from the Games after a preventive antidoping test came positive ( the results were from a test conducted in Brazil ). The IOC has retested nearly 500 doping samples that were collected at the 2006 Turin Games. In 2014, the Estonian Olympic Committee was notified by the IOC that a retested sample from cross-country skier Kristina Šmigun had tested positive. On 24 October 2016, the World Anti-Doping Agency Athletes ' Commission stated that Šmigun, who won two gold medals at the Turin Games, faces a Court of Arbitration for Sport hearing before the end of October. If Šmigun were to be stripped of her gold medals, Kateřina Neumannová of Czech Republic could be elevated to gold in the 7.5 + 7.5 km double pursuit event. Marit Bjørgen of Norway could acquire a seventh gold medal in the 10 km classical event. Ratings and attendance The examples and perspective in this article may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. You may improve this article, discuss the issue on the talk page, or create a new article, as appropriate. ( February 2010 ) A number of events reported low spectator attendance despite having acceptable ticket sales. Preliminary competition and locally less popular sports failed to attract capacity crowd as expected. Organizers explained this was because blocks of seats were reserved or purchased by sponsors and partners who later did not show up at the events. Several news organizations reported that many Americans were not as interested in the Olympics as in years past. It has been suggested that reasons for this lack of interest include the tape delayed coverage, which showed events in prime - time as much as 18 hours later in the Western United States, and also due to the lack of success achieved by big - name American athletes. Primetime viewing figures in Canada were also disappointing, especially after the early exit of the Canadian men 's hockey team, though overall viewing figures were up from 2002. Olympic legacy Torino 's Olympic Oval hosting the 2009 European Athletics Indoor The Olympics represented an opportunity to revamp the city 's look and change its traditional image as an industrial city by showing the world its hidden side of vibrant cultural life and stunning architectures. Thanks to the olympic exposure and state of the art venues, Turin has become one of Italy 's primary tourist destinations and has been established as an important sport center in Europe. Since 2006, TOP ( Torino Olympic Park ) has been the agency in charge of managing the Olympic facilities. Security measures As with every Olympics since the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics and increasingly since the Salt Lake 2002 Winter Olympics, there was heavy security due to fears of terrorism. 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Question: when were the winter olympics held in italy
Answer: 1956