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Olympic Villages Open in Turin 35 minutes ago TURIN, Italy - The three Olympic villages that will house some 5,000 athletes and officials during the Winter Games opened Tuesday, 10 days before the Turin Games opening ceremony. <http://us.bc.yahoo.com/b?P=C22ORELaS.Zfw9DkQz25xhBYReSAqUPfqiIAB8Mf&T=16lju rlm1%2fX%3d1138731554%2fE%3d97326738%2fR%3dnews%2fK%3d5%2fV%3d2.1%2fW%3d8%2f Y%3dYAHOO%2fF%3d3225599918%2fH%3dY2FjaGVoaW50PSJuZXdzIiBjb250ZW50PSJob3VzZTt PbHltcGljczsiIHJlZnVybD0iIiB0b3BpY3M9IiI-%2fQ%3d-1%2fS%3d1%2fJ%3dADA949D1&U= 1398clk1j%2fN%3dykboLELaSRE-%2fC%3d328599.7897108.8749248.1442997%2fD%3dLREC %2fB%3d3260530> IOC member Manuela Di Centa, a former Olympic cross-country skiing champion, cut the red ribbon for the main village at a ceremony in Turin. Di Centa will serve as mayor of the complex. About 100 people, mostly Olympic volunteers and reporters, attended the ceremony, which came hours before the first group of athletes were expected to begin arriving. The Turin complex, spread over about 107,000 square feet, is the largest of the villages for the Feb. 10-26 games. Its 39 buildings, painted the colors of the Olympic rings, were built over the past two years around a former central market and will host about 2,500 people. The village also has shops, restaurants, gyms and medical services. A village in the Alpine town of Bardonecchia will host about 700 people involved in biathlon, snowboard and freestyle skiing. Another village in Sestriere has space for 2,000 athletes taking part in Alpine skiing events. The Turin village appeared ready for its guests Tuesday, but just outside the gates workers were still drilling into the street - a last-minute rush to finish many of the urban projects planned for the Olympics. Also in the final phases of construction is a pedestrian bridge held up by a red arch that links the athletes village to the rest of the city and is considered by some the Olympics' most lasting symbol. The bridge is scheduled to open Feb. 4. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
