No Name Problem Here!

I saw this interesting article in the Wall Street Journal - unfortunately I think you need a paid subscription to access the full text. The gist of the article is that the city of Torino, Italy, host of the 2006 Winter Olympic Games has decided that the 2006 Olympics will officially be known as the Torino Olympics and not the Turin Olympics. (Torino is pronounced like Cappucino, according to the WSJ article) Apparently it is longstanding tradition that the English version of a city's name is used as the official name for the Olympic games held in such city. Thus, we have the Rome Olympics and not the Roma Olympics and the Munich games and not the Munchen games. But Torino is putting its foot down and ending that tradition by using Torino instead of Turin as the official name for its upcoming games.

I'm all for Torino using whatever name they want to call themselves, but I just wanted to point out that this isn't a problem with Chicago! We are internationally known as Chicago! If the games are held here, then around the world they will be known as the Chicago Olympics. Bring on the 2016 games!