Turin Winter Olympic Games 2006 News Blog

February 27th, 2006

Forsberg puts stamp on gold medal victory

Forsberg puts stamp on gold medal victory
When Peter Forsberg scored the goal that won Sweden their first Olympic ice hockey gold medal in 1994 the moment was immortalized forever on a postage stamp.
Full Story (Source: MSNBC)

Men’s ice hockey: Sweden 3, Finland 2
Sweden’s trio of hockey stars somehow found each other amid the joyous flag-waving and flower-tossing by their Olympic teammates, and shared one final hug. This was the last time Peter Forsberg, Mats Sundin and Nicklas Lidstrom would be together, and they knew it.
Full Story (Source: Yahoo! Sports)

Germany top Winter Olympics medal count
With one day left in the Winter Olympics and only two medal events set for Sunday, a few things are certain: Germany will leave Turin with the most gold medals, and Bode Miller will drive his motor home out of the Italian Alps with none.
Full Story (Source: Mail & Guardian)

Germany, U.S. finish 1-2, many nations share wealth in medals
Germany and the United States again won the most medals at a share-the-wealth Turin Olympics that featured more countries winning medals and more in double figures than ever before.
Full Story (Source: Yahoo! Sports)

Figure skating: Cohen takes fall
She squeezed her coach’s hands and then skated off toward the biggest four minutes of her life. And right then you could see it.
Full Story (Source: Yahoo! Sports)

Fans of Winter Olympics are streaming to the Web
Despite the generally depressed TV ratings for the Winter Olympics that are ending Sunday, viewership is booming on a different screen.
Full Story (Source: Chicago Tribune)

Turin Bids Arrivederci to Winter Olympics
With a dreamlike, Fellini-style circus of clowns and acrobats — some floating magically in midair — Turin found a fitting way to bid arrivederci to a Winter Games that mixed occasional fiasco with many moments of grace and glory.
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February 26th, 2006

Ohno dominates to win short track gold

Ohno dominates to win short track gold
A perfect start led to a perfectly satisfying finish Saturday night for Apolo Anton Ohno and the U.S. men’s short track speedskating team.
Full Story (Source: Chron)

Bode Miller: 0-for-Olympics, without regret
Bode bombed. There’s really no other way to put it. In a performance that might put him down as the biggest bust in Winter Olympics history, Bode Miller completed an 0-fer in men’s ski racing yesterday when he failed to finish the slalom. He might be the best American skier of his generation, or perhaps ever, but his time in Turin will be known more for failing to medal in the downhill, combined, slalom, giant slalom and super-G.
Full Story (Source: Newsday)

It was a faceless but successful Olympics for U.S. team
The Olympic flame will be extinguished Sunday night, leaving Americans with at least one burning question: Who will grace the cover of the Wheaties box?
Full Story (Source: Mercury News)

A big finish for Canada?
Splendiferous Saturday. Could be, even should be, for Canada. On the penultimate day of the XX Winter Olympics, Canucks are podium-potent from up on the mountain to down in the oval to ’round the rink.
Full Story (Source: Toronto Star)

Miller flops again; Raich’s second gold caps Austrian sweep
His final race at these Olympics cut short by yet another mistake, Bode Miller stood beside the course, shaking his hands and wiggling his head in mock celebration. How appropriate.
Full Story (Source: Yahoo! Sports)

Czech Republic 3, Russia 0
Right result, wrong game for the Czech Republic. The Czechs beat Russia 3-0 in the Olympic men’s tournament Saturday night and didn’t even try to hide their disappointment.
Full Story (Source: Yahoo! Sports)

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February 26th, 2006

Czech mate: Czech’s blank Russia for bronze

Czech mate: Czech’s blank Russia in bronze medal game
Right result, wrong game for the Czech Republic. The Czechs beat Russia 3-0 in the Olympic men’s tournament Saturday night and didn’t even try to hide their disappointment.
Full Story (Source: Slam! Sports)

Hughes wins gold, Klassen wins record medal
Clara Hughes won gold and Cindy Klassen made history with a bronze as the Winnipeg ladies dominated the ice at the Oval Lingotto today.
Full Story (Source: Slam! Sports)

Finland vs. Sweden final: Nordic Stanley Cup
This is their game of a lifetime, and they know it. This is a Stanley Cup finals Game 7 magnified, a once unimaginable gold medal matchup of tiny bordering countries come true.
Full Story (Source: Yahoo! Sports)

Golden Ohno: Another win for the goateed American, plus a bronze
A perfect race from start to finish for Apolo Anton Ohno. Nobody was going to get in his way this time.
Full Story (Source: Yahoo! Sports)

USOC officials promises athletes will be better behaved
With the whole world watching, Bode Miller earned more notice for his Olympic partying than his performance. Teammates Shani Davis and Chad Hedrick skated and squabbled. Jeret Peterson finished off a boozy night in the mountains with a street scuffle.
Full Story (Source: CBS Sportsline)

Two skiers eligible for 50k after being cleared to compete
Two cross-country skiers were cleared Saturday to compete in the final Olympic race after serving suspensions for high hemoglobin levels.
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February 25th, 2006

Mancuso of U.S. Wins Women’s Giant Slalom

Mancuso of U.S. Wins Women’s Giant Slalom
Julia Mancuso won the women’s giant slalom at the Winter Olympics in Italy, giving the U.S. its eighth gold medal of the games. Pre-race favorite Anja Paerson of Sweden finished out of the medals.
Full Story (Source: Bloomberg)

Austrian relief at first round of drug inquiry
Drug tests on the 10 athletes at the centre of the Austrian doping inquiries were negative, the International Olympic Committee announced last night.
Full Story (Source: Telegraph)

An unflagging hero for these Olympics
If the judgment of an American Olympics performance is who gets on a Wheaties box, breakfast might have to be skipped.
Full Story (Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

Canada bests Finland for curling gold
Canada won the men’s curling tournament Friday at the Winter Olympics by beating Finland, 10-4, in the gold medal match at Pinerolo Palaghiaccio.
Full Story (Source: The Sports Network)

U.S. rebounds, streaks to bronze medal
The guys on the U.S. men’s curling team will take home some vivid memories of their time at the 2006 Winter Olympics.
Full Story (Source: Chicago Tribune)

An exception to the rule: Hedrick settles for second
Maybe Chad Hedrick will take things a little easier the next time. Hedrick became only the third U.S. Winter Olympian to win as many as three medals at a single games when he captured a silver in the 10,000 meters Friday, the final men’s speedskating race. He was sandwiched between a pair of Dutch skaters: winner Bob de Jong and third-place finisher Carl Verheijen.
Full Story (Source: Yahoo! Sports)

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February 25th, 2006

Men’s ice hockey: Russia Finn-ished

Russia Finn-ished
Saku Koivu is one win away from delivering the greatest hockey victory in his country’s history. And Finland’s captain knows even Hollywood couldn’t have scripted it better with rival Sweden standing in the way of Olympic gold Sunday (8 a.m. ET).
Full Story (Source: Slam! Sports)

Finland, Sweden stomp semifinal foes en route to all-Nordic final in hockey
Finland had plenty to celebrate: The hockey team had just completed a one-sided drubbing of a talented Russian team. And in the process, the Finns put themselves in position to capture their country’s first-ever gold medal in hockey.
Full Story (Source: Yahoo! Sports)

Speed skater’s grandfather dies of heart attack in Turin
The grandfather of U.S. short track skater Kimberly Derrick died of an apparent heart attack Friday night while in Turin to watch her compete in her first Olympics.
Full Story (Source: CBS Sportsline)

Americans ready to bid ‘arrivederci’ to Italy — in a wild way
By Sunday, the U.S. medal count will be pretty much sealed. The only thing left for the American delegation will be a wild, somewhat-weird goodbye party.
Full Story (Source: Yahoo! Sports)

Neumannova’s late push gets Czech Republic its first gold
Fatigued and exhilarated, Katerina Neumannova fell across the finish to win one of cross-country’s most grueling races, then found the energy to hoist her young daughter into a celebratory embrace.
Full Story (Source: CBS Sportsline)

Controversial sagas become standard Games feature
A familiar atmosphere swept through the Turin Winter Olympics this week and it was not the medals, nor the records nor cheers from the fans.
Full Story (Source: Yahoo! Sports)

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February 24th, 2006

Xiaopeng claims victory in aerials

Xiaopeng claims victory in aerials
Han Xiaopeng won China’s first Olympic gold medal on snow when he triumphed in the men’s freestyle skiing aerials.
Full Story (Source: CNN)

Olympics fall short of ratings gold
Why aren’t more Americans watching the Olympics? That’s the gold-medal question as the Turin Winter Games on NBC approach Sunday’s closing ceremony. Once nearly invincible in prime time, the Olympics are getting beaten as never before.
Full Story (Source: Chron)

Winter Olympics still stir patriotism
Salt Lake City, in an editorial: “This year, the Winter Olympics seem to be providing more than just the usual fare of athletic deeds and personal triumphs. They are providing a glimpse into the future of media entertainment.”
Full Story (Source: USA Today)

Canadian curlers hammer Norway, take bronze
Canada rocked Norway with four points in the first end, four more in the fifth and went on to win 11-5 Thursday, earning an Olympic bronze medal in women’s curling.
Full Story (Source: MSNBC)

Belarus denied first Winter Olympics gold
China`s Han Xiaopeng denied Belarus its first gold medal in Winter Olympics history Thursday by winning the men`s freestyle skiing aerials.
Full Story (Source: Monsters And Critics)

Ski duo optimistic after topping their rankings
New Zealand’s two women’s ski slalom representatives, Nicola Campbell and Erika McLeod, performed above their rankings in Italy yesterday.
Full Story (Source: NZ Herald)

Cohen, Slutskaya stumble and Japanese win first-ever figure skating gold
No Russian sweep, no American streak. Shizuka Arakawa put Japan, of all countries, on top of the figure skating world.
Full Story (Source: Yahoo! Sports)

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February 24th, 2006

Modano skips out on final U.S. hockey meeting

Modano skips out on final U.S. hockey meeting
Mike Modano packed up his stuff and left Italy on Thursday morning, skipping a final meeting with his Olympic teammates after they were eliminated a night earlier in the men’s hockey quarterfinals.
Full Story (Source: Yahoo! Sports)

American puts past collapses behind her to win snowboarding medal
No longer will she be remembered as the head case who couldn’t make it through qualifying without crashing. No longer will she be remembered as the snowboarder who collapsed in stunning fashion in Nagano in 1998 and Salt Lake City in 2002.
Full Story (Source: Yahoo! Sports)

Doctor never doubted Camplin
Alisa Camplin’s surgeon Dr Julian Feller was never in any doubt the pint-sized athlete could win an Olympic aerial freestyle skiing medal.
Full Story (Source: NineMSN)

Old and slow, no-gold Canada rethinks future Olympic plans
All that talent. All that money. All that nothingness. Canada, the land that invented hockey but somehow can’t seem to win at it regularly, sent what it thought was its best-ever Olympic men’s team to Turin.
Full Story (Source: Yahoo! Sports)

Ellis breaks back in non-Olympic sledding accident
It was supposed to be a friendly sliding competition for TV viewers. Instead, U.S. skeleton racer Kevin Ellis showed a bit of the realistic dangers of his sport.
Full Story (Source: Yahoo! Sports)

Canadian hockey vets still eyeing 2010
Martin Brodeur will be 37 in 2010, but Team Canada’s No. 1 goaltender says he hopes to play in the next Winter Olympics. Captain Joe Sakic will be 40, but the Vancouver native wants to play in his hometown.
Full Story (Source: Slam! Sports)

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February 23rd, 2006

Hockey heartbreaker: dream team out

Hockey heartbreaker
They were defending champions with big names and big skills, but Team Canada couldn’t score. That’s why Canadian hockey’s dream team is going home early after a stunning 2-0 loss to Russia in the Olympic hockey quarter-final Wednesday. “We weren’t as good a team as we needed to be to advance,” summed up head coach Pat Quinn.
Full Story (Source: Slam! Sports)

Russia 2, Canada 0
Wayne Gretzky couldn’t stand to watch any longer, heading to the exit in the final minute. Russia’s youngsters were beating up his hand-picked old pros from Canada and, with 33 seconds left and his eyes red with tears, he bolted. No gold medal for mighty Canada, and no comfort at the Olympics for The Great One, who placed the blame for this failure squarely on himself.
Full Story (Source: Yahoo! Sports)

Short night at short track: Ohno moves on in his quickest event
Apolo Anton Ohno had a short night at the short track. It was good enough to give him a shot at another medal. Ohno safely advanced from his heat in the 500 meters Wednesday and will go to the final night of competition with two chances to add to the bronze he has already won at these Winter Olympics.
Full Story (Source: Yahoo! Sports)

Beijing’s watchful eye at Torino
Even before they’re over, the Winter Games in Torino are being overshadowed by Beijing, with expectations soaring that the 2008 Summer Olympics will be like none other.
Full Story (Source: CNN)

Miller to race slalom despite rolling his ankle playing basketball
Bode Miller was rehabbing his ankle Wednesday after twisting it while playing basketball with teammates but is expected to race the Olympic slalom, his fifth and final chance at a Turin Games medal.
Full Story (Source: Yahoo! Sports)

Lack of interest in Olympics recalls Miss America
There are alibis enough to explain why the Turin Olympics simply haven’t caught on with Americans.
Full Story (Source: Sports Illustrated)

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February 23rd, 2006

At Olympics snowboarding comes of age

At Olympics snowboarding comes of age
Ashlee Brown looked resplendent in her orange checked snowboard gear as she waited by a crowded lift line at the ritzy mountain resort of Squaw Valley in the heart of northern California’s booming winter sports region.
Full Story (Source: Monsters And Critics)

Canada, Finland advance to curling’s gold medal game
The best Pete Fenson can hope for now is to leave Italy with a bronze medal and some new pizza recipes.
Full Story (Source: Yahoo! Sports)

One to watch: men’s aerials
Recovering from knee surgery this time last year and forced to withdraw from the circuit for several months, Kyle Nissen has returned with a vengeance this season. The Canadian is the World Cup leader, with five podium finishes from eight events, including a victory on his home snow at Mont Gabriel.
Full Story (Source: Times Online)

NZers off the pace in women’s slalom
The Swedish ski star Anja Paerson has finally won a gold medal, taking the women’s slalom title at the Turin Winter Olympics.
Full Story (Source: Radio NZ)

Who has the edge?
A new ice princess will be crowned in Turin Thursday night. But with less than one point separating first and third, figure skating’s most coveted prize — the Olympic gold medal — is up for grabs.
Full Story (Source: Yahoo! Sports)

Drawn and quartered
His eyes still full of Finnish pride, his still lip bloodied from earning it, Teemu Selanne still had the energy to snicker a crooked grin at the silly charges centering around the implosion of USA Hockey.
Full Story (Source: Yaho! Sports)

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February 22nd, 2006

IIHF monitors game after coach suggests loss

IIHF monitors game after coach suggests loss
International hockey’s governing board closely monitored Sweden’s 3-0 loss to Slovakia in Olympic preliminary play Tuesday after Swedish coach Bengt-Ake Gustafsson suggested his team might be better off losing.
Full Story (Source: Yahoo! Sports)

Gottwald gives Austria record-high eight gold medals
Felix Gottwald used his powerful sprint ability to win the cross-country portion of the Nordic combined Tuesday — Austria’s record eighth gold medal of the Turin Olympics.
Full Story (Source: CBS Sportsline)

Russia 5, United States 4
Brian Rolston’s shot bounced off the goalie, struck the crossbar and sent a water bottle flying on its way into the net. Needing all that effort for one goal, who knows what it will take to lift the U.S. men’s hockey team to Olympic victory. Trouble is, the club has only one more chance to figure it out.
Full Story (Source: Yahoo! Sports)

Canada 3, Czech Republic 2
The goals came, as Wayne Gretzky predicted they would. Martin Brodeur played like a gold-medal winning goalie, too. That doesn’t mean Canada solved all its problems during an encouraging but far-from-perfect performance one day before the Olympic men’s hockey games start to count.
Full Story (Source: Yahoo! Sports)

Team Canada wins last round-robin game at Winter Games, bobsledders fourth
Team Canada ended its losing slide at the Winter Olympics on Tuesday while bobsledder Helen Upperton nearly slid her way onto the podium.
Full Story (Source: CJAD)

9 straight losses for curlers
Winter Sports High Performance Manager Mark Elliot has rejected suggestions of disharmony in the New Zealand Curling team at the Winter Olympics in Turin.
Full Story (Source: NZ Herald)

NBC, Costas missing the mark on TV coverage
The idea that we live in a country in which more people would rather watch bad singers embarrassing themselves than fabulous athletes competing on a world stage is disconcerting.
Full Story (Source: The Record)

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XX Olympic Winter Games, Torino Italy, 10-26 February 2006

Forsberg puts stamp on gold medal victory

Ohno dominates to win short track gold

Czech mate: Czech’s blank Russia for bronze

Mancuso of U.S. Wins Women’s Giant Slalom

Men’s ice hockey: Russia Finn-ished

Xiaopeng claims victory in aerials

Modano skips out on final U.S. hockey meeting

Hockey heartbreaker: dream team out

At Olympics snowboarding comes of age

IIHF monitors game after coach suggests loss

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