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| Highlights from the 2006 Winter Olympics
The 2006 Winter Olympics came to a close in Torino, Italy, with some memorable medals, events, and a powerfully emotional closing ceremony. The United States departed the games with twenty-five medals, some surprising winners, and some honorable moments. Speedskater Joey Cheek set a standard for Olympic class, winning two medals and donating his $40,000 reward from the U.S. Olympic Committee to a charity for children trapped in war zones. Skiers Julia Mancuso and Ted Ligety became unlikely gold medalists, and Snowboarder Lindsey Jacobellis lost the gold in an unfortunate turn of events.
Germany left the 20th Winter Olympic games with the most medals, collecting twenty-nine in total, eleven of them gold.
Sweden took home the gold medal in Men's Ice Hockey, during an emotionally charged game, showcasing three of their strongest players in what will probably be their last Olympic game together.
After Michelle Kwan's early departure from the games, Emily Hughes, younger sister of gold medalist Sarah Hughes, was brought into the Women's Figure Skating competition, only to be upset by Japanese champion Shizuka Arakawa who took home the gold medal in a fiercely exciting set of competitions.
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| Medal Events for Sunday, February 26th
Cross Country Skiing - Men's 500 km Free, Mass Start
Ice Hockey - Men's Play-off Gold Medal Game |
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| Medal Events for Saturday, February 25th
Alpine Skiing - Men's Slalom
Speed Skating - Ladies' 5000 m
Bobsleigh - Four-Man Heat
Ice Hockey - Men's Play-offs, Bronze Medal Game
Biathlon - Men's 15 km Mass Start, Women's 12.5 km Mass Start
Short Track Speed Skating - Men's 500 m Final, Ladies' 1000 m Final, Men's 5000 m Relay Final |
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| Medal Events for Friday, February 24th
Alpine Skiing - Ladies' Giant Slalom
Cross Country Skiing - Ladies' 30 km Free, Mass Start
Speed Skating - Men's 10000 m
Curling - Men's Bronze Medal Game, Men's Gold Medal Game
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| Highlights from Friday, February 24th
It will be Finland and Sweden in Sunday's gold medal game in Men's Hockey. Finland, who is a perfect 7-0-0, defeated Russia 4-0 today in the semi-finals. In the other game, Sweden defeated the Czech Republic 7-3. Russia and the Czech Republic will play tomorrow for the bronze medal.
American Chad Hendrick took silver in the Men's 10000m Speed Skating competition. Dutch skaters Bob de Jong and Carl Verheijen won the gold and bronze.
USA skier Julie Mancuso won the gold in the Women's Giant Slalom, beating out Tanja Poutiainen of Finland by 0.67 seconds. Anna Ottosson of Sweden finished third.
The US Women's Curling team finished with the bronze medal after defeating Great Britain today 8-6. Canada beat Finland 10-4 to take the gold.
Katerina Neumannova of the Czech Republic won the Women's 30km Cross-Country Skiing race. |
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| Highlights from Thursday, February 23rd
Sasha Cohen fell in her free skate routine, costing the American a chance at the gold medal in the Women's Figure Skating event. Cohen finished with silver behind Shizuka Arakawa of Japan. Russian Irina Slutskaya, who was in second behind Cohen after the short program, fell as well and finished up with the bronze
American Rosey Fletcher took bronze in the Women's Snowboarding Parallel Giant Slalom event.
Team Sweden took gold in the Women's Curling competition - pulling out a 7-6 victory over Switzerland in the gold medal game. Canada defeated Norway 11-5 in the bronze medal game.
Russia, Germany and France placed gold, silver and bronze in the Women's 4x6km Biathlon competition.
Xiaopeng Han of China took gold in the Men's Freestyle Skiing Aerials competition. |
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| Medal Events for Thursday, Feburary 23rd
Biathlon - Women's 4x6 km Relay
Snowboard - Ladies' PGS 1/8 Final, Ladies' PGS Final
Figure Skating - Ladies' Free Skating
Freestyle Skiing - Men's Aerial Final
Curling - Women's Bronze Medal Game, Women's Gold Medal Game
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| Highlights from Wednesday, February 22nd
The US Men's Hockey team will lost its quarterfinal game 4-3 against favorite Finland. The loss eliminates the Americans from medal contention
World Record holder Korea took gold in the Women's 3000m Short-Track Speed Skating Relay with Canada and host Italy taking silver and bronze respectively.
Canadians Cindy Klassen and Kristina Groves took gold and silver in the Women's 1500m Speed Skating competition with Ireen Wust of The Netherlands finishing third.
The much-feared Austrian trio of skiers took three of the top five spots in the Women's Slalom, but it was Anja Paerson of Sweden who took the gold. Nicole Hosp and Marlies Schild of Austria finished second and third.
Bjoern Lind of Sweden won the Men's Cross-Country skiing sprint with Chandra Crawford of Canada winning the Women's race. |
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| Medal Events for Wednesday, February 22nd
Alpine Skiing - Ladies' Slalom
Speed Skating - Ladies' 1500 m
Freestyle Skiing - Ladies' Aerial Final
Short Track Speed Skating - Ladies' 3000 m Relay Final
Cross Country Skiing - Ladies' Sprint Finals, Men's Sprint Finals
Snowboard - Men's Parallel Giant Slalom Finals, Men's PGS 1/8 Finals
Men's Hockey Quarterfinals
10:35am ET - Sweden 6, Switzerland 2
11:35am ET - Finland 4, USA 3
2:35pm ET - Russia vs. Canada
3:35pm ET - Slovakia vs. Czech Republic
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| Highlights from Tuesday, February 21st
Sasha Cohen leads the Women's Figure Skating competition after today's Short Program event. Irina Slutskaya of Russia is in second, trailing Cohen by only 0.03 points while Shizuka Arakawa of Japan sits in third place. Emily Hughes, who replaced Michelle Kwan, currently sits in seventh place and has some ground to make up if she is to medal. The Free Skate portion of the competition is on Thursday evening.
With fourth place in Group B and a spot in the quarterfinals already assured, the US Men's Hockey team gave a valiant effort against Russia, falling 5-4 to finish the preliminary round with a record of 1-3-1. The team will have to believe in miracles to get past the quarterfinal match up with Finland. The top team from Group A went a perfect 5-0-0, scoring 19 goals while only allowing two.
Americans Shani Davis and Chad Hendrick finished second and third in the Men's 1500m Speed Skating, losing out to Italian Enrico Fabris.
Shauna Rohbock and Valerie Fleming took silver in the Women's Bobsled competition for the Americans with Medal-leading Germany taking gold and host Italy taking bronze.
Germany, Russia and France placed 1, 2, and 3 in the Men's 4x7.5km Biathlon Relay
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| Medal Events for Tuesday, February 21st
Biathlon - Men's 4x7.5 km Relay
Bobsleigh - Women's Heat
Nordic Combined - Sprint 7.5 km
Speed Skating - Men's 1500 m
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| Highlights from Monday, February 20th
Russia's Tatiana Navka and Roman Kostomarov won the ice dancing gold medal. Tanith Belbin and Benjamin Agosto of the United States won silver and Ukraine's Elena Grushina and Ruslan Goncharov took the bronze.
Britain's defending Olympic curling champion has apologized to her home nation for failing to get a medal at the games this year. Martin's quintet were knocked out of the competition today despite a 10-4 win over the United States because they had not gathered enough points in the rest of the round-robin stage to gain a semi-final berth.
Canada successfully defended their Olympic women's ice hockey gold medal with a 4-1 win over Sweden.
The United States shutout Finland 4-0 to take the bronze medal at the women's Olympic ice hockey tournament. The Americans, upset at missing out on a chance to play for a gold medal, took their frustrations out on the Finns piling up three goals in the first period.
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| Medal Events for Monday, February 20th
Alpine Skiing - Men's Giant Slalom
Figure Skating - Ice Dancing - Free Dance
Ski Jumping - LH Team Final Round
Ice Hockey - Women's Play-offs - Bronze Medal Game, Gold Medal Game
Men's Ice Hockey
USA vs Russia - Tuesday, February 21st
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| Highlights from Sunday, February 19th
The Men's Hockey team faces the prospect of not making the medal round after a 2-1 loss to Sweden in the fourth of five preliminary games. The US' record stands at 1-2-1 and must win its final game against Russia on Tuesday to make the quarterfinals
Host Italy won the Men's 4x10 Cross-Country Relay. It is Italy's third gold of the Olympic Games. Germany and Sweden finished with silver and bronze respectively.
Dutch skater Marianne Timmer won the gold in the the Women's 1000m Speed Skating race. Cindy Klassen of Canada and Anni Friesinger of Germany finished with silver and bronze.
Germany took gold in the Two-Man Bobsled competition with Canada and Switzerland finishing second and third.
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| Medal Events for Sunday, February 19th
Alpine Skiing - Ladies' Super G
Cross Country Skiing - Men's 4x10 km Relay
Biathlon - Two-Man Heat
Speed Skating - Ladies' 100 m
Men's Hockey
USA vs. Sweden
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