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Bardonecchia; cross-country skiing, Media Villages. The second con­ did not undergo any variations: TORINO 2006 ski jumping and nordic combined at struction site to be opened will be Alpine skiing at , . that of the ski jump at Pragelato, in and Cesana-San THE OLYMPIC SYSTEM A little over 1,200 days are left before the first few days of August. Sicario; freestyle at Sauze d'; the Games of 2006 start, and the In the meantime, the projects for some snowboarding at Bardonecchia; TOROC is going full throttle. In March facilities in the city have been out­ cross-country skiing, ski jumping and the Main Press Centre (MPC) and orino is an ice sports hub, and the city celebrated the arrival of the sourced, for which the works will start Nordic combined at Pragelato. has a appendage International Broadcast Centre (IBC). flag from Salt Lake City and the between June and July 2003: the While waiting to see these facilities at . It has an Alpine Within a radius of two kilometers will T beginning of the Olympic quadrien- Japanese architect Arata Isozaki won take shape, the TOROC continues to area for the snow sports, with its nat­ be the Olympic Village and a Media nial coincided with the start of the the tender for designing the hockey work at peak capacity. Professionals ural fulcrum being in Sestriere: in Village, the hockey, speed skating, works and the opening of the first arena which will stand in the area of with years of Olympic experience, short, this is the Olympic System of figure skating and short-track facili­ construction sites, for which Agenzia the old "Stadio Comunale"; HOK such as SLOC Sports Director Cathy Torino 2006. ties, and the hotel of the Olympic Torino 2006 is responsible. During Sport and Studio Zoppini have the Priestner, in Torino since the begin­ In the past few years the Torino Family. The Olympics will change the the days of the second visit of the task of designing the new speed-skat- ning of August, have joyned the team Organising Committee for the XX look of the city thanks to the renova­ forîno IOC Coordination Commission, the ing facility; while Gae Aulenti (the and are making an important contri- Olympic Winter Games in 2006 tion of the former Civic Stadium and first construction site was opened: on Italian architect who designed the ibution in terms of sports and man­ (TOROC), in agreement with the IOC Palavela, the construction of new 10 June the bulldozers started Musée d'Orsay of Paris) will design the agerial expertise. For the TOROC it and the International Federations, sports facilities and the realization of demolishing the former wholesale renovation of the Palavela which will is an additional guarantee of profes­ has approved some important modi­ residential structures, which after the markets that will leave the space for host figure skating and short-track. sionalism, in view of our commit­ fications to the candidature projects Games will be at the disposal of the the Olympic Village and one of the The other Alpine disciplines, however. ments for the next few years. regarding the layout of the Olympic with particular attention to the after- university. However, as the President installations throughout the territory. Olympics use, a priority for the city of the TOROC, Valentino Castellani, In Torino the ice sports facilities and and the IOC. has pointed out many times, the the Olympic Village, initially planned Upon the indication of the City of Olympic legacy consists not only of for the northern area of the city near Torino, an "Olympic district" has been roads and sports facilities: in order to the Stadio delle Alpi, have been identified, having its centre at be successful, the Games must leave transferred to the southern area of Lingotto, the headquarters of the the city a wealth of values and skills OLYMPIC TRUCE the city. So the Olympic map of TOROC. on which it can build its future. Torino is now different from that of Not far from Lingotto, the former FIAT Even outside the city things have the candidature: it has taken on a factory which was turned into a trade changed: in Pinerolo there will be the The concept of the Olympic Truce, more compact and functional form. fair and convention centre, will host curling tournament (during the candi­ which historically marked the cessation dacy it was planned that a part of the of hostilities between nations for the hockey tournament would be held whole duration of the Olympic Games in there); in the mountains the major Ancient Greece, has been revived and change was to the bob, luge and celebrated by the IOC since 1994. The skeleton track: for reasons of geologi­ International Olympic Truce Centre, cal stability the track, planned in the established by the IOC in close collabo­ ration with Greece, organised in Athens, candidacy dossier to be built in two years before the return of the Beaulard, was placed in Oulx. Games of Olympiad to their homeland, a Unfortunately, asbestos was discov­ ceremony during which several person­ ered in the ground there and it was alities adhered to the call for an Olympic necessary to find another location: on Truce. On this occasion, the Nobel Prize 25 March 2002 the TOROC approved winner and former South-African the new location, in Cesana in the President, Nelson Mandela, acclaimed resort village of Pariol-Greniere. for his valuable contribution to world The other Alpine disciplines, however, peace, reiterated his support for the did not undergo any variations: alpine Olympic Truce. "We must believe", he skiing at Sestriere, Bardonecchia and said, "as rational human beings, that it is Cesana-San Sicario; freestyle at always possible to resolve differences Neison Mandeia (ieft) beside George Papandreou, vice-chairman of the intemationai The Olympic System of Torino 2006. Sauze d'Oulx; snowboarding at peacefully and through negotiations". 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