A group of eight "volunteering types" learned about the bid process for the World Air Games 2009 in 2006.
They immediately set up a Promotional Committee, with the financial backing of the local Public Administration.
Through "whispers", the Committee knew they would be competing against many other cities (10+). Following the procedures established by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI), Turin prepared a first bid project.
The FAI made a preliminary selection, reducing the city candidates to five:
London, Moscow, Melbourne, Odense and Turin.

Enthused by this first, partial success, the Committee splashed out in all departments, involving experts from the widest variety of fields (transport, security, volunteers, television cover, temporary structures and many more), who provided their expertise free of charge. Out of all this frenetic activity, the Bid Book (the final proposal for the Games, complete in every organisational detail) was born.
The FAI carried out a detailed inspection of everything described in the Bid Book. It was time for the second selection: nervous moment.

But even the second selection was favourable: still in contention Moscow, Odense, Turin.

The final round took place in the Auditorium of the Olympic Museum in Lausanne: presentations of the three finalists’ projects, with searching questions and answers. The selection committee then shut themselves away in discussion while the three Promoting Committees anxiously awaited their response. The selectors came back into the Auditorium and FAI President, Pierre Portman spoke solemnly for a moment. Suspense and finally, the phrase:

...and the winner is... TORINO!

The Turin team and those of their supporters who had travelled to Lausanne exploded in celebration. The work of many people had been rewarded but especially, the commitment of the local area and all its public authorities who, after the challenge of the Olympics, can demonstrate the capacity to accept and manage other sporting events of an international character and with a high return in image and for the local economy.