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The
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of Turin is one of the leading European football
competes nearly every year in the Champions League
and is often in the lead of the Italian League. It is made of several
of the worlds finest international players, Zidane, Ferrarra, Dell
Piero and Inzahgi are only a few.
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 Turin
2006
After surprisingly beating Sion (Switzerland) in the race for the 2006
Olympics, they are now preparing for this event. The statistics which
made them win are here on the right :
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TURIN
(Italy) Population: 2.2 million.
Previous games:
Cortina d'Ampezzo (Winter Games, 1956); Rome (Summer Games, 1960).
Projected budget:
$780 million. Projected surplus: $35 million.
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Strengths: backing of Turin's industrial community; regional winter
sports tradition and experience in organizing ski events; influence
of powerful Italian Olympic community.
Quote: "It's already a positive result to have presented a good
bid. I hope we win, but to tell you the truth, it wouldn't be a
tragedy if we don't." -- bid leader Evelina Cristillin.
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Weaknesses: distance to main alpine venues in Sestriere (75 minutes
by road); IOC concerns over spread-out sports concept; bid hurt by
ban on IOC member visits. Fact: Turin is Italy's third largest city
and home of Fiat.
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