Switzerland At The 2006 Winter Olympics
Switzerland competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. This was the confederation's largest Winter Olympics team ever, because two ice hockey teams qualified (men and women).
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Famous quotes containing the words switzerland and/or winter:
“I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.”
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845)
“It was a green world,
Unchanging holly with the curled
Points, cypress and conifers,
All that through the winter bears
Coarsened fertility against the frost.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)