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The 2006 Winter Olympics officially known as the XX Olympic Winter Games (French: Les XXes Jeux olympiques d’hiver) was a winter multi-sport event which was held in Turin 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.