TORINO 2006 PARALYMPICS WINTER GAMES March 10-19

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Preparing the Paralympic Winter Games

The challenge posed by the management of an Olympic event is always imposing. In the organisation of a Paralympic event, besides the variables pertaining to an event of enormous complexity, there will also be the conscience of the responsibility for an event that has the aim of changing the mentality of a whole society.

Therefore the event poses not only management, logistic and organisational challenges, but the awareness of defending and promoting a heritage of attention and civil and cultural sensitivity to be passed on to new generations.

The Paralympic Games are on the constant rise since the first edition: the number of disciplines and the attendance of the public and teams increase constantly, along with media visibility and with mounting responsibilities in communicating the event.

Over 600 athletes compared to the 570 of Nagano 1998 and the 490 of Salt Lake City 2002, 40 countries represented and a new discipline, Wheelchair Curling. The overall budget is 56.3 million Euro.


10 days of competitions: From 10-19 March 2006

5 disciplines · 4 Competition Venues
1 Olympic Village
1,300 people among athletes, guides, technicians and responsibles
40 countries taking part
1,000 among representatives of the IPC, Paralympic Committees and Federations
1,200 potential Sponsors guests
1,000 journalists and TV operators
6,000 Volunteers
250,000 spectators expected on Competition Venues and over 350,000,000 TV spectators


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