Sion bid for the 2006 Winter Olympics

Bids for the
2006 (2006) Winter Olympics and Paralympics
Overview
	XX Olympic Winter Games ; IX Paralympic Winter Games
	Winner: Turin ; Runner-up: Sion ; Shortlist: Helsinki · Klagenfurt · Poprad-Tatry · Zakopane
Details
City	Sion, Switzerland
NOC	Swiss Olympic Association (SUI)
Previous Games hosted
	None ; bid for 1976 Winter Olympics and 2002 Winter Olympics
Decision
Result	Runner-up (2nd place)

Sion submitted its bid for the 2006 Winter Olympics backed up by the Swiss Olympic Association. The sports concept was considered as "well thought out with the Olympic Village centrally located in Sion, the ice sports in the Rhône valley and the skiing events in the mountains on either side of the city".^[1]

Venues

The proposed venues were:^[2]

Sion Cluster

Sion - ceremonies, main olympic village, figure skating, short track
Martigny - ice hockey, speed skating (temporary)
Visp - ice hockey
Crans-Montana- alpine skiing, snowboard, ski jumping, curling, Nordic combined
Veysonnaz - alpine skiing, freestyle skiing
Goms Valley - biathlon, cross-country skiing, Nordic combined

St. Moritz Venue

St. Moritz - St. Moritz-Celerina Olympic Bobrun for bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton

References

Notes

^ http://library.la84.org/OlympicInformationCenter/OlympicReview/1999/OREXXVI27/OREXXVI27x.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}
^ "Report of the IOC Evaluation Commission for the XX Olympic Winter Games in 2006" (PDF). International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2014-03-29., p.60

External links

Candidate city bidbook

[1] ttp://library.la84.org/OlympicInformationCenter/OlympicReview/1999/OREXXVI27/OREXXVI27x.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}

[2] "Report of the IOC Evaluation Commission for the XX Olympic Winter Games in 2006" (PDF). International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2014-03-29., p.60

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