Nations not competing at the 2006 Winter Olympics

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Some countries hoped to compete in the 2006 Winter Olympics but did not do so.

1 Iraq
2 Jamaica
3 Mexico
4 Morocco
5 Pakistan
6 References
7 External links

[edit] Iraq

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Faisal Faisal failed to qualify for skeleton.

Iraq has never competed at a Winter Olympics.

[edit] Jamaica

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Jamaica did not send any athletes to the 2006 Winter Olympics. Jamaica's bobsleigh team failed to qualify for the Games. However, former Jamaican bobsledder Lascelles Brown, who was born in Jamaica, and obtained Canadian citizenship in January of 2006 by parliamentary decree, participated with Pierre Lueders in the 2-man and 4-man events and won Silver in the 2-man, and finished 4th in the 4-man.

Jamaica had competed at every Winter Olympics from 1988 to 2002.

[edit] Mexico

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Mexico did not send any athletes to the 2006 Winter Olympics. The teams for bobsleigh and skeleton both failed to qualify for the Games. Alpine skier Hubertus von Hohenlohe had gained enough World Cup points to qualify for the Olympics, but the Mexico National Olympic Committee decided not to send a one man team to the Games.^[1]

von Hohenlohe lobbied strenuously to get to go to what would be his fifth Games, with support from the Turin Committee, the Italian Olympic Committee, the IOC, and FIS.

[edit] Morocco

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Morocco qualified to participate at the 2006 Winter Olympics, in Turin, Italy with the representation by Samir Azzimani (who lives in France) and Sarah Ben Mansour (who lives in Belgium), both in alpine skiing. However, they did not appear on the start list at the event.

[edit] Pakistan

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Pakistan was scheduled to send 2 alpine skiers to the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. However, both Muhammed Abbas and Waseem Abbas failed to qualify.