Editing 2006 Winter Olympics (section)

==Host city selection==
[[File:PassionLivesHere.jpg|thumb|"Passion lives here", the Turin 2006 motto written by the Italian calligrapher {{ill|Francesca Biasetton|it}}]]
{{Main|Bids for the 2006 Winter Olympics}}
Turin was chosen as the host of the Olympics at the 109th [[IOC Session]] in [[Seoul]], [[South Korea]] on 19 June 1999.<ref name="Bid archives">{{cite web|url=http://www.gamesbids.com/english/archives/past.shtml |title=Olympic Bid Election History—Voting Records and Results |publisher=[[GamesBids]] |access-date=19 April 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080510132655/http://www.gamesbids.com/english/archives/past.shtml |archive-date=10 May 2008 |url-status=live  }}</ref> This decision was the first bidding process, after the [[International Olympic Committee|IOC]] had adopted new election procedures during the 108th Extraordinary IOC Session in light of the controversies surrounding the votes for the [[1998 Winter Olympics|1998]] and [[2002 Winter Olympics]].<ref name="Bid process">{{cite web |url=http://www.worldgames-iwga.org/vsite/vfile/page/fileurl/0,11040,1044-163474-180689-13798-0-file,00.pdf |title=World Games News |publisher=[[International World Games Association]] |access-date=19 April 2007 |date=April 1999 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070614134114/http://www.worldgames-iwga.org/vsite/vfile/page/fileurl/0,11040,1044-163474-180689-13798-0-file,00.pdf |archive-date=14 June 2007 |url-status=dead  }}</ref>

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 European cities presented their projects. Only two would advance to the final stage, which was the choice of the host city. At the first phase, all had to make the preliminary presentation in full IOC Session. All the members of the Selection College had to be present at the audience and it was their responsibility to decide which would be the two finalists. They decided that the cities were: the big favorite [[Sion, Switzerland|Sion]] and the dark horse of the process: [[Turin]].<ref name="Bid archives" /> The bids of [[Helsinki]], Finland; [[Poprad|Poprad-Tatry]], Slovakia; [[Zakopane]], Poland; and [[Klagenfurt]], Austria were dropped by the Selection College after all six bidding cities made their presentations.<ref name="Election IOC">{{cite web|url=http://www.olympic.org/uk/games/torino/election_uk.asp |title=Turin 2006—Election |publisher=[[International Olympic Committee]] |access-date=19 April 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100609164614/http://www.olympic.org/uk/games/torino/election_uk.asp |archive-date=9 June 2010 |url-status=live  }}</ref>

The selection of Turin over Sion came as a surprise around the world since the Swiss city was seen as the overwhelming favorite in part because the IOC had their headquarters in Switzerland.<ref name="Sion favorite">{{cite news|work=USA Today |url=https://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/2006-10-18-hodler-obit_x.htm |title=Olympic corruption whistle-blower Hodler dies |date=18 October 2006 |access-date=19 April 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604100427/http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/2006-10-18-hodler-obit_x.htm |archive-date=4 June 2011 |url-status=live  }}</ref> Some analysts attribute the choice of Turin as a reaction to Swiss IOC member [[Marc Hodler]]'s role in exposing the [[2002 Winter Olympic bid scandal|bribery scandal]] surrounding [[Salt Lake City]]'s bid for the 2002 Winter Olympics<ref name="Whistleblower">{{cite news|publisher=Associated Press/[[ESPN]] |url=http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/winter02/gen/news?id=1340126 |title=Italian city prepares for next Winter Olympics |date=24 February 2002 |access-date=19 April 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604100518/http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/winter02/gen/news?id=1340126 |archive-date=4 June 2011 |url-status=dead  }}</ref>

The information below comes from the International Olympic Committee Vote History  {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080525070757/http://www.aldaver.com/votes.html |date= 25 May 2008 }} web page.

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|+ 2006 Winter Olympics bidding results<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.gamesbids.com/eng/past.html |title=GamesBids.com - Past Results |date=24 January 2011 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110124022022/http://www.gamesbids.com/eng/past.html |archive-date=24 January 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgx6Ds_7R0o|title=2006 Winter Olympic Games Announcement|date=30 August 2013 |via=www.youtube.com|access-date=20 December 2016|archive-date=6 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191106233426/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgx6Ds_7R0o&gl=US&hl=en|url-status=live}}</ref>
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! City
! Country 
| style="background:silver;"|'''Round 1'''
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|'''[[Turin]]'''|| '''{{ITA}}'''|| style="text-align:center;" |'''53'''
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|[[Sion, Switzerland|Sion]]|| {{CHE}} || style="text-align:center;"|36
|}