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
Turin · 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

References

Notes
  1. ↑ http://library.la84.org/OlympicInformationCenter/OlympicReview/1999/OREXXVI27/OREXXVI27x.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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