Cesana Pariol

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Cesana Pariol is the venue for bobsled, luge and skeleton during the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. The 1,435 meter track, built for the games, is located in Cesana, Italy. The venue includes 19 turns - 11 left-hand turns and 8 right-hand turns - and a drop of 114 meters from start to finish. The venue is intended to hold approximately 7,130 spectators - 3,624 of them seated.

[edit] Turn names

Turn Number	Name	Reason named
1.	Champias	Local town near the track.
2.	Giancio	"The Hook" in Italian.
3.	Il Muro	"The Wall" in Italian. Women's Singles and Men's Double luge have their start house after this turn.
4., 5.	Gemelli	"The Twins" in Italian.
6., 7., 8.	Toro	"Bull" in Italian. Also for the toroid or torus shape of these three turns.
9.	Cesana	The City that hosted the bobsled, luge, and skeleton competition for the 2006 Winter Olympics.
10.	Nino Bibbia	1948 Winter Olympics gold medalist in skeleton at St. Moritz. Italy's first gold medalist in bobsled, luge, or skeleton.
11.	Museo	"Museum" in Italian. An archeological find was found near this turn during track construction.
12., 13.	Chicane	Shape of these curves.
14.	Chaberton	After the Chaberton Mountains that the inside of this curve faces.
15.	Lavatrice	"Washing machine" in Italian.
16.	Compressionie	"Compression" in Italian. From the compressive forces put upon the body during the maneuvering of the sled through the turn.
17.	Senza Nome	"Without Name" in Italian. 17 is considered an unlucky number in Italy.
18.	Pariol	The community in Cesana where the track is located.
19.	Eugenio Monti	Six-time Olympic medalist and 10-time bobsled World Champion during the 1950's and 1960's.