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Torino Games and Geometric Art is an illustration of the 20th
Winter Olympics Games that began on February 10, 2006, in Turin, Italy. This
is the second time that Italy will host the Olympic Winter Games, as it
hosted the VII Olympic Winter Games in Cortina d'Ampezzo in 1956, and the
third time overall that Italy will host an Olympic Games, as it also staged
the Games of the XVII Olympiad in Rome in 1960.
Among the sports competitions taking place are
alpine skiing, figure skating, bobsledding, speed skating, ice hockey,
curling, slalom run, luge, ski jumping, cross-country skiing, snowboarding
and the Biathlon, which combines events in rifle shooting and cross-country
skiing.
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