Where are the 2006 Winter Olympics being held, anyway?
Submitted by davidnielsen on Tue, 01/17/2006 - 16:23
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The Winter Olympics begin on February 10 in Turin, Italy. Some of my media colleagues prefer to say Torino, which admittedly flows better off the tongue. But it is remarkably inconsistent. After all, we didn't say that the 2004 Summer Olympics were in Athina or the 1964 Summer Olympics were in Roma, did we?
No, Turin will do just fine. Besides, Turin is the long-time home of the Italian carmaker, Fiat. Torino was the name of an ugly Ford car, infamously driven on the 1970s TV detective show, Starsky and Hutch.
Let's not further embarrass our hosts by reminding them of that debacle.
Let's just stick with Turin, capisce?
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