<Ul> <Li> IOC </Li> <Li> CONI </Li> <Li> TOROC </Li> </Ul> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> 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 . </P> <P> 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". </P>

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