Olympic flame hijacked by anti-capitalist protesters
Olympic flame hijacked by anti-capitalist protesters
Italian demonstrators have hijacked the Olympic torch on its way to the Winter Games in Turin in unprecedented protests targeting the event’s sponsors, Coca-Cola.
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Australia expands team for Turin
A record 40 Australian athletes, including 22 men and 18 women, will be travelling to Turin for the Winter Olympics next month. Nine of the athletes were selected for snowboarding, and nine others for freestyle skiing. Australia sent 27 athletes to the Salt Lake Games four years ago.
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Snipers, armed skiers help guard Turin Games
TURIN, Italy — Snipers, policemen and armed skiers will watch over the Winter Olympics next month, helped by information from intelligence services around the world, Turin’s security chief said in an interview. Prefect Goffredo Sottile, who is in charge of public security in Turin province, said he met FBI Director Robert Mueller on Tuesday to discuss the situation two weeks before the Games, which will run from February 10-26.
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Germany drops three from Turin team due to secret police ties
MUNICH, Germany — Germany dropped three officials from its biggest ever Winter Olympics team on Wednesday because of ties to the former East Germany’s secret police.
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Hop on board for the Winter Olympics
VERNON, N.J. — When Andy Finch reaches the bottom of the hill, finally still enough to be discerned as anything more than a blur of tumbling color, he grins broadly, his hair unfurling from beneath his helmet like wisps of chestnut smoke.
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Winter Olympics: NZ team biggest ever
New Zealand’s largest ever Olympic Winter Games team will compete in Turin, Italy next month after the addition of another seven athletes in the disciplines of skeleton and bobsleigh today.
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The Challenge of NBC’s Winter Olympics
The Winter Olympics will begin a little more than two weeks from now and they will run for 17 days. NBC - and three of its other cable networks - will show 416 hours of programming.
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