BRIEFLY : SWISS TOWN IN TIZZY OVER LOSING GAMES.

Byline: - Daily News Wire Services

After losing the 2006 Olympic Games to Turin, Italy, angry and unruly supporters in Sion, Switzerland, turned against the International Olympic Committee.

After widespread rage broke out among the crowd watching the announcement live on a jumbo screen in Place de la Planta in the Saturday morning dawn, it was soon clear the Swiss were not prepared to accept the IOC's choice.

Following the announcement that was televised live in the square, following all-night celebrations, stunned spectators stood in disbelief, before raising their fists in anger, crying, whistling and jeering IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch anytime the Spaniard's face came onto the screen.

Outraged, some turned SION 2006 flags into pickets, with hastily scribbled slogans such as ``CIO-Mafia'' and ``IOC go to Palermo.''

Later, the incensed Swiss host broadcasters from TSR ranted over the loudspeakers in the square, calling the choice ``unfair,'' ``scandalous,'' and insisting the IOC had ``lost all credibility in making a choice like that,'' their bitter voices carrying across the downtown area of the medieval city.

Shortly after, police reported that angry protesters had defaced a statue in the Olympic museum's gardens in Lausanne, home of the IOC, about 62 miles west of Sion.

No chanting crowds, no flags, no celebration in downtown squares and streets.

On a sleepy and rainy day in Turin, most residents were unaware - some were stunned - that their city had been picked as the site of the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Piazza San Carlo, the traditional gathering spot for thousands of people during labor rallies or after triumphs by the Juventus soccer team, was empty of people and cars.

Those who learned the news from a special edition of the local sports daily and from early morning reports on Italian radio and television began pondering the pros and cons of organizing Italy's first Winter Olympics in 50 years.

Cortina D'Ampezzo was the last Italian venue to have won a Winter Olympics in 1956.

Turin is a city of 2.2 million residents in northern Italy.

GOLF: Se RiPak, who won four LPGA tournaments in 1998 but has struggled this year, fired a solid if unspectacular 69 to take a two-stroke lead in the ShipRite LPGA Classic in Absecon, N.J.

Juli Inkster's round of 68 and two-day total of 134 put her two strokes back of Pak.

TRACK AND FIELD: Germany's men, led by shot putter Oliver-Sven Buder and high jumper Martin Buss, took the lead after the first day of the European Cup in Paris.

The Germans got 8 points each from Buder, who won at 67 feet, 4-1/4 inches, and Buss, who high-jumped 7-8. Overall, the Germans had 52 points. Italy was second with 48-1/2 and Britain third with 45. The biggest surprise was that the Russians men were seventh with 34.

In the women's competition, the Russians, winners of the past two European Cups, led with 55 points. Romania was second with 46 and France third with 42.