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Turin 2006: XX Olympic Winter Games: With Allison Baver, Lindsey Jacobellis, Jacques Rogge, Anja Pärson. Broadcast television coverage of the Torino 2006: XX Olympic Winter Games, an international multi-sport competition that took place in and around Turin, Piedmont, Italy (aka Torino Italy) from 10 February 2006 through 26 February 2006.
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S1.E13 ∙ Day 12. Wed, Feb 22, 2006. Features the Alpine skiing (women's slalom), cross-country skiing (women's 1,1 km sprint and men's sprint), men's curling semi-finals, freestyle skiing (women's aerials), ice hockey (Russia vs Canada and Czech Republic vs Slovakia), women's 3000 m relay short track, snowboarding (men's parallel giant slalom ...
The 2006 Winter Olympics ( Italian: 2006 Olimpiadi invernali ), officially the XX Olympic Winter Games ( Italian: XX Giochi olimpici invernali) and also known as Torino 2006, were a winter multi-sport event held from 10 to 26 February in Turin, Italy. This marked the second time Italy had hosted the Winter Olympics, the first being in 1956 in ...
The second day continues with the Alpine skiing (men's downhill), cross-country skiing (women's 7.5 + 7.5 km double pursuit event and men's 15 km + 15 km distance), figure skating, women's ice hockey, luge (men's singles), short track speed skating, snowboarding (men's halfpipe event), speed skating (women's 3000 m long-track event) and ski jumping.
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- A Record Games
- Expanding Coverage
- Debuts and Firsts
With a population of more than 900,000, Turin became the largest city ever to host the Olympic Winter Games. A record 2,508 athletes from 80 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) competed, and 26 NOCs took home medals—another record.
For the first time, live video coverage of the Games was available on mobile phones. Video coverage was available in 18 countries on five continents. In another first, television viewers in Mongolia and Azerbaijan were also able to watch all the action. Surfing the internet for results proved popular too, with torino2006.org registering approximate...
Albania, Madagascar and Ethiopia were all represented for the first time. Claudia Pechstein of Germany became the first speed skater to earn nine career medals, and with his victory in the Super G, Kjetil Andre Aamodt of Norway became the first Alpine skier to earn four medals in the same event and the first to win four gold medals in total.
Sep 30, 2010 · 10th February 2006, Olympic Stadium, Turin, Italy. 33,000 spectators in the Stadium, some 2 billion TV viewers,in what represented the largest audiencein the...
