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The Journey to Torinoy blog is sponsored and managed by Visa USA. They have invited Olympic athletes, their coaches and fans; journalists covering The Torino Games, and Visa employees and representatives to contribute to "The Journey" blog.

From Wikipedia 2006 Winter Olympics:

The XX Olympic Winter Games will be held in Turin, Italy from February 10 to February 26, 2006. This will be the second time that Italy has hosted 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 have hosted an Olympic Games, as it also hosted the Games of the XVII Olympiad in Rome in 1960.

During the Games some 20,000 volunteers (selected from among over 40,000 applicants) will be employed to help the athletes, spectators and journalists, and to prepare the competition sites.

The official logo displays the name "Torino," which means "Turin" in the original Italian. Neve and Gliz are the mascots of Torino 2006. Neve is a female snowball, and Gliz is a male ice cube.