Why are the winter Olympics in Turin but they keep calling it Torino?




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Because in Italian the city is called Torino and not Turin. If you asked and Italian how to get to Turin, they would look at you like you are from Mars. I applaud NBC for using the actual name of the city and not using the English name. I wish all references to Torino did this!

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They don't want the terrorists to find it on the map

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Italia=Italy
Deutschland=Germany

almost every language has a different way to spell almost all the major cities from all the other countries.
so Turin is english and Torina is Italian.

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In English it is called Turin because we are too lazy to say three syllables. The actual Italian name for the city is Turino, and since the games are in Italy, then....

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