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2006 Winter Olympics

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XX Olympic Winter Games
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The emblem shows a stylized profile of the Mole Antonelliana,
drawn in ice crystals in white and blue, signifying
the snow and the sky. The crystal web also portrays the web
of new technologies and the Olympic spirit of community.

Host city Turin, Italy
Nations participating 80
Athletes participating 2663 (1642 men, 1021 women)
Events 84 in 15 disciplines in 7 sports
Opening ceremony February 10, 2006. Opening
Closing ceremony February 26, 2006. Closing
Officially opened by Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
Athlete's Oath Giorgio Rocca
Judge's Oath Fabio Bianchetti
Olympic Torch Stefania Belmondo
Stadium Stadio Olimpico

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The 2006 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XX Olympic Winter Games, were celebrated in Turin, Italy from February 10, 2006, through February 26, 2006. This marked the second time Italy hosted the Olympic Winter Games, the first being the VII Olympic Winter Games in Cortina d'Ampezzo in 1956. Italy also hosted the Games of the XVII Olympiad in Rome in 1960.

The official logo displayed the name "Torino", the Italian name of the city, but the city is known as "Turin" in both English and the local traditional dialect, Piedmontese, even if with slightly different pronunciation. The Olympic mascots of Torino 2006 were Neve ("snow" in Italian), a female snowball, and Gliz, a male ice cube. The official motto of the XX Olympic Winter Games was "Passion lives here".

The Turin metropolitan area at 1.7 million, is the largest city to have ever hosted a Winter Olympics; the title will fall to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, (2.1 million) when that city hosts the XXI Olympic Winter Games. The 2002 Salt Lake City games also claims this title because at the time of the Olympics its metropolitan population was 1,516,227<ref>Salt Lake population figures by the United States Census</ref> and some events were held in the Provo metropolitan area of 400,209,<ref>Provo population figures by the United States Census</ref> which the state of Utah calls a single metropolitan area of 1.9 million<ref>Utah remark page 10 by the state of Utah</ref> and the U.S. government describes as two metropolitan areas in a single urban area.

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[edit] Sports

Main article: Events at the 2006 Winter Olympics

The Games featured 84 medal events in 15 disciplines grouped over 7 sports. Events that made Olympic debut in Turin included mass start biathlon, team sprint cross country skiing, snowboard cross and team pursuit speedskating. The classical men's 50 km and women's 30 km distances, which were held at the previous Winter Games in 2002, were not held in these Games, as these events were alternated with freestyle events of the same distances;<ref>In the recent years, the Freestyle events and the Classic events have been switched each Olympic Games.</ref> in fact, most of the cross country skiing events at these Games involved different distances from those in Salt Lake City.

(Numbers in parentheses after each sport discipline indicate the number of events contested.)

[edit] Results

[edit] Medal table

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Main article: 2006 Winter Olympics medal count
 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Image:Flag of Germany.svg Germany 11 12 6 29
2 Image:Flag of the United States.svg United States 9 9 7 25
3 Image:Flag of Austria.svg Austria 9 7 7 23
4 Image:Flag of Russia (bordered).svg Russia 8 6 8 22
5 Image:Flag of Canada (bordered).svg Canada 7 10 7 24
6 Image:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden 7 2 5 14
7 Image:Flag of South Korea (bordered).svg South Korea 6 3 2 11
8 Image:Flag of Switzerland.svg Switzerland 5 4 5 14
9 Image:Flag of Italy.svg Italy (host nation) 5 0 6 11
10 Image:Flag of France.svg France 3 2 4 9
Image:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands 3 2 4 9

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[edit] Athletes with the most gold medals

[edit] Athletes with the most medals

[edit] Nations with medals in most disciplines

[edit] Medal sweep events

For team sports, the following countries won a medal in both men's and women's events:

The only occasions where both golds were won by the same country were Image:Flag of South Korea (bordered).svg South Korea in the short track speed skating relays and Image:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden in Cross country skiing team sprint.


[edit] Calendar

   ●   Opening ceremony   ●   Event competitions    ●   Event finals   ●   Exhibition gala   ●   Closing ceremony
February 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th 21st 22nd 23rd 24th 25th 26th
Ceremonies    ●       ●   
Biathlon    ●       ●      ●       ●     ●  ●     ●       ●     ●  ● 
Bobsleigh    ●      ●      ●      ●       ●      ●   
Curling ● ● ●● ● ●● ● ●● ● ●● ● ●● ● ●● ● ●● ● ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ● 
Ice hockey  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●    ●    ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●    ●       ●      ●      ●   
Figure skating    ●       ●      ●       ●      ●       ●      ●      ●       ●      ●   
Cross-country skiing  ●  ●   ●  ●     ●      ●      ●      ●     ●  ●     ●       ●   
Nordic combined    ●       ●      ●       ●   
Luge    ●      ●      ●      ●      ●   
Speed skating    ●      ●      ●      ●    ●  ●  ●  ●     ●      ●       ●      ●       ●      ●   
Short track    ●       ●     ●  ●     ●    ● ● ●
Alpine skiing    ●       ●      ●       ●      ●      ●       ●       ●      ●   
Freestyle skiing    ●       ●       ●      ●       ●      ●   
Ski jumping    ●      ●       ●      ●       ●   
Skeleton    ●      ●   
Snowboarding    ●      ●       ●      ●       ●      ●   
February 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th 21st 22nd 23rd 24th 25th 26th

[edit] Highlights

Main article: 2006 Winter Olympics highlights
Opening Ceremony - February 10
Opening Ceremony
Stefania Belmondo lit the Olympic flame.
More highlights...
Day 1 - February 11
Biathlon
Michael Greis of Germany wins the first gold medal of the 2006 Winter Olympics, with a victory in the individual 20 km race.
Freestyle skiing
Jennifer Heil becomes the first Canadian woman to win a medal in moguls. Norwegian Kari Traa wins the silver and Sandra Laoura of France wins the bronze.
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Day 2 - February 12
Figure skating
Michelle Kwan of the United States withdraws from the Olympics following a groin injury in practice. Emily Hughes is named her replacement.
Snowboarding
Shaun White of the U.S. team takes the gold medal at the men's snowboarding halfpipe event.
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Day 3 - February 13
Biathlon
Russian Svetlana Ishmuratova wins the women's 15 km biathlon.
Speed skating
Joey Cheek of the United States wins the gold medal at the 500 m long track event, skating both runs in less than 35 seconds; the fastest time of any other competitor was that of silver medalist Dmitry Dorofeyev, with a 35.17. Lee Kang-Seok of Korea wins a bronze medal, the first Korean medal in (long track) speed skating in 14 years.
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Day 4 - February 14
Ice hockey
In the women's competition, Canada defeats Sweden 8-1 and will face Finland in the semi-final. The United States defeats Finland 7-3 and will face Sweden in the other semi-final match.
Speed skating
Svetlana Zhurova of Russia takes gold in the women's 500 m event. Wang Manli and Ren Hui of China win the other two (2) medals.
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Day 5 - February 15
Luge
Austrian brothers Andreas and Wolfgang Linger won the doubles competition. Teams from Germany and Italy took the silver and bronze.
Nordic combined
High winds in the ski jumping hill forced the jury to abandon the team competition midway through the second round. The teams resumed the next day. The Norwegians withdrew due of illness.
More highlights...
Day 6 - February 16
Cross country skiing
Kristina Šmigun wins her second gold medal of the Games with a victory in the women's 10 km classical and remains the only Estonian to medal.
Curling 
In men's action, Great Britain edges Germany 7-6, Switzerland keeps New Zealand winless by winning 9-7, Canada edges Norway 7-6, and the United States defeats Sweden, 10-6.
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Day 7 - February 17
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Snowboarding
Tanja Frieden of Switzerland takes the gold in women's snowboarding cross after Lindsey Jacobellis of the United States falls on the second-to-last jump while performing an unnecessary method grab to give up the largest lead of the entire tournament. Jacobellis settles for silver, while Canada's Dominique Maltais takes bronze after recovering from a crash.
Skeleton
Duff Gibson of Canada takes gold, just ahead of fellow Canadian Jeff Pain. Swiss slider Gregor Stähli wins the bronze. The 39-year-old Gibson becomes the oldest individual gold medalist in Winter Olympics history.
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Day 8 - February 18
Alpine skiing
Croatian Janica Kostelić takes gold in the women's combined. Austria's Marlies Schild wins the silver and Anja Pärson of Sweden finishes third.
Kjetil André Aamodt wins gold for Norway in the men's Super G, beating Hermann Maier of Austria. Ambrosi Hoffmann takes bronze for the Swiss.
Biathlon
Germans Kati Wilhelm and Martina Glagow finish first and second in the 10 km pursuit; Albina Akhatova of Russia takes bronze.
Vincent Defrasne wins gold for France in the 12.5 km pursuit event, followed closely by Ole Einar Bjørndalen of Norway. Germany's Sven Fischer takes bronze.
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Day 9 - February 19
Bobsleigh
The German bob driven by Andre Lange wins gold in the men's 2-man event 0.21 seconds ahead of the Canadian bob of Pierre Lueders and Lascelles Brown and 0.35 seconds ahead of Martin Annen's Swiss sled. Brown becomes the first Jamaican-born competitor to win a Winter Olympic medal.
Speed skating
Marianne Timmer of the Netherlands wins the women's 1000 m in 1.16.05, 8 years after winning in Nagano. Cindy Klassen of Canada comes in second and favorite Anni Friesinger of Germany wins the bronze, 0.06 seconds behind Timmer.
More highlights...
Day 10 - February 20
Curling
After downing Denmark 8–1, Norway becomes the third team to qualify for the semi-finals in the women's competition, joining Sweden and Switzerland. Canada beats Denmark 9-8, occupying the fourth playoff spot.
In the men's competition, Canada defeats the United States 6-3 to qualify for the semi-finals, and will play the USA again in the first game of the medal round.
Ski jumping
Austria wins the team event for the first time. Finland takes the silver, while Norway takes the bronze.
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Day 11 - February 21
Bobsleigh
The German team of Sandra Kiriasis and Anja Schneiderheinze win gold in the women's event ahead of teams from the United States (Shauna Rohbock and Valerie Fleming) and Italy (Gerda Weissensteiner and Jennifer Isacco).
Nordic combined
Felix Gottwald of Austria wins gold in the LH Sprint competition while Norway's Magnus Moan and Germany's Georg Hettich finish in the silver and bronze positions.
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Day 12 - February 22
Alpine skiing
Anja Pärson of Sweden wins her first Olympic gold medal in the women's slalom; her fifth career medal. Austrians Nicole Hosp and Marlies Schild take silver and bronze.
Cross-country skiing
Chandra Crawford of Canada wins a gold medal in her Olympic debut in the women's 1.1 km sprint. Germany's Claudia Künzel edges out Russia's Alena Sidko to earn the silver.
Björn Lind of Sweden claims the gold medal in the men's sprint in a rout. Frenchman Roddy Darragon edges out Swede Thobias Fredriksson to earn the silver.
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Day 13 - February 23
Curling
The Swedish women's team skipped by Anette Norberg win the gold medal match against Switzerland with a 7-6 double take out on the hammer of the 11th end. Canada defeats Norway in the bronze medal match 11-5.
Freestyle skiing
China's Han Xiaopeng wins gold in men's aerials by a little more than two points over Dmitri Dashinski of Belarus. Vladimir Lebedev of Russia wins bronze.
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Day 14 - February 24
Cross country
Kateřina Neumannová of the Czech Republic wins the 30 km freestyle event. Russian Julija Tchepalova claims the silver and Pole Justyna Kowalczyk gets the bronze.
Curling
Canada defeats Finland 10-4 in the gold medal match to win the nation's first gold medal in men's curling after winning silver in Nagano and Salt Lake City. The United States men's team defeats Great Britain by a score of 8-6 to take the bronze medal, America's first medal in curling.
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Day 15 - February 25
Bobsleigh
The German bob driven by Andre Lange wins gold in the 4-man event 0.13 seconds ahead of the Russian bob driven by Alexandre Zoubkov and 0.41 seconds ahead of Martin Annen's Swiss sled.
Short track speed skating
American Apolo Anton Ohno wins the men's 500 m, earning his second career gold medal. Canada's François-Louis Tremblay wins the silver, while Ahn Hyun-Soo of South Korea earns the broze, his third individual medal of the 2006 games. Ahn would later win his third gold medal of the Turin Olympics in the 5000 m relay, becoming one of the most decorated Korean Winter Olympic athletes ever.
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Day 16 - Closing Ceremony - February 26
Ice Hockey
Sweden defeats Finland 3-2 to take the men's ice hockey gold medal, with Nicklas Lidström scoring the deciding goal in the final. The Czech Republic takes the bronze after beating Russia.
Closing Ceremony
Manuela Di Centa gives the gold medal to her brother Giorgio.
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[edit] Venues

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[edit] Olympic areas

Olympic events were mainly held in Turin, but other events (namely skiing, snowboarding, and the track sports) were held in mountainous outlying villages for obvious reasons.

[edit] Turin

Many venues are located in the Olympic District in central Turin, including:

[edit] Other locations

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[edit] Olympic villages

[edit] Official Olympic training sites

[edit] Olympic mountain training site

[edit] Participating NOCs

A record of 80 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) entered athletes at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. This was an increase of three from the 77 represented at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. The number in parentheses indicates the number of participants that NOC contributed.