Helsinki 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	Helsinki, Finland
NOC	Finnish Olympic Committee (FIN)
Previous Games hosted
	1952 Summer Olympics
Decision
Result	Not shortlisted

Helsinki 2006 (Swedish: Helsingfors 2006) was a joint bid for the 2006 Winter Olympics presented by the city of Helsinki and Finnish Olympic Committee. Some of the proposed venues were located in Lillehammer, Norway.

Finland does not possess sufficiently high mountains in its territory to host the alpine skiing competitions and thus proposed some events pursuant to Rule 38.2 of the Olympic Charter. Whilst the individual venues were considered to be excellent, the 1000-km distance between Helsinki and Lillehammer, and the fact that a large portion of the Games will be held in Norway, may have led to organisational and operational burdens.^[1]

Venues[edit]

The proposed venues were spread between two countries:^[2]

Finland[edit]

Helsinki - ceremonies, main olympic village, ice hockey (two venues: Hartwall Arena and Barona Areena), speed skating (Myllypuro), figure skating and short track (Helsinki Ice Hall), curling (Pirkkola Arena)
Espoo - ice hockey (Barona Areena)
Lahti - biathlon, ski-jumping, Nordic combined, cross-country skiing, freestyle skiing (Messilä)

Norway[edit]

Lillehammer - Lillehammer Olympic Bobsleigh and Luge Track for bobsleigh, luge and skeleton
Hafjell - alpine skiing (men's and women's slalom, giant slalom and combined slalom), snowboard
Kvitfjell - alpine skiing (men's and women's downhill, combined downhill and super-G)

References[edit]

Notes

^ http://library.la84.org/OlympicInformationCenter/OlympicReview/1999/OREXXVI27/OREXXVI27u.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.18

External links[edit]

Helsinki 2006 Candidature Files[edit]

[1] ttp://library.la84.org/OlympicInformationCenter/OlympicReview/1999/OREXXVI27/OREXXVI27u.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.18

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