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Torino 2006 Olympic Games Blog
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The closing ceremony of Torino 2006
 The closing ceremony will be a great end to these days of festivities - with celebration of the traditional Italian carnival which happens to be this weekend. "The
show will combined the fantasy and colours of the Carnival with the
sounds and shapes typical of the circus and Art Comedy.
The protocol moments of the ceremony will
alternate with the more informal and irreverent ones typical of the
Carnival. Thus, the clowns will come on to the scene, together with
snow explorers, the mermaid, interpreted by Valeria Marini, the
Carnival Court, led by the King and the Queen, and the Masks of the
Viareggio Carnival. And there will also be a tribute to Federico Fellini, seeing as six original costumes from the film ?The Clowns? by the master from Rimini, created by the Oscar Award winner Danilo Donati.
The audience will also be involved. As for the Opening Ceremony, all
spectators will be given a kit with angel and devil masks with a red
nose that lights up. Everyone will be invited to wear them, including
the heads of state and government and the other celebrities from the
grand stands. ?We will see how they will react to this joke? Finzi
Pasca smiles. It will take place on the occasion of the athletes?
parade, who this time will be parading all together and not divided by
nations, preceded by the flags of all the participating countries. The
Italian flag bearer will be Armin Zoeggeler, gold medal in luge.
Another official moment will be the extinguishing
of the Olympic Cauldron: with Andrea Bocelli on the stage, 400 maids
will walk into the stadium holding a lantern in their hands. Their blow
will lead to the simultaneous extinguishing of the Cauldron. Then, the
grand finale with the aurora borealis, the pyrotechnical fountains, the
live performances of two stars such as Ricky Martin and Elisa and the fireworks." (from Torino 2006 .org)
Posted 02/26/06
Sweden beats Finland in Icehockey final
Happy Swedes
Rather surprisingly Sweden won the gold medal in the Hockey tournament after beating Finland 3-2 in an exciting final in the last day of the Torino 2006 Olympics (0-1, 2-1, 1-0).
Goals by Zetterberg, Krowall and Lidstrom of the Swedish team made sure that the two goals scored by Timonen and Peltonen from Finland was one goal too short of a draw.
Saturday the Czech Republic won the bronze medal after beating Russia 3-0. The icehockey match was also the last match for this Olympics - and now we'll have to wait four years for next time (and probably another 50 years for the Games to return to Italy)
Posted 02/26/06
Streaker strikes Torino 2006
Streakers don't strike
Streak
Mark Roberts struck again during the curling bronze final. First he did football, tennis, American Football and now during the curling match between UK and USA, wearing just a rubber chicken and a sponsor logo (!)... (USA won 8-6 by the way.)
Posted 02/25/06
Journalist impression wrap-up
The Torino 2006 is nearing its end and many media websites have started to do their own summing up. As a part of the huge media corps, AP got their international journalist to summarize their impression in a blog and it makes some interesting reading. "Turin has been ripped by foreign journalists for being indifferent at best (and antagonistic at worst) toward the games, but you'd never
believe it when you see a man holding his 4-year-old daughter and staring with wonder into the sky, or a quiet teenager speedily setting up his tripod and camera in the middle of the street to take long-exposure photographs of the games' symbol." More here
Posted 02/25/06
Torino 2006 through the eyes of a waxer
 Here's a quite interesting take on the Olympics from on of the guys working behind the scenes Curtis Bacca, a ski technician for the US snowboard Team. About this year's team he says: "The team is really fun. It's just like being with the U.S. downhillers 15 years ago." (He was the waxer for U.S. alpine stars Tommy Moe and Kyle Rasmussen.) Read his take on the Olympics here.(via MTexpress)
Posted 02/25/06
Greis wins 15 km biathlon
 The German Michael Greis managed to win the gold medal on 15 km men, before the Pole Tomasz Sikora and the Norwegian Ole Einar Bjørndalen. This was also the last of the biathlon events - and as history obvoiusly repeats itself - Greis also won the first medal of the Torino 2006 Olympics biathlon events, the 20 km.
Posted 02/25/06
Expensive Olympic gesture
Finger trouble
This finger gesture cost the angry owner, Pierre-Emmanuel Dalcin, 3200 Euros (3800USD), according to the International Skiing Federation FIS' fine. The Frenchman got disqualified during the Super G race on Saturday and in a spontaneous moment he showed what he truly meant of the situation and the audience. Dalcin was leading after 17 racers in the first half, when the race was cancelled due to the bad weather, and all times were deleted and the athletes had to give it a new go. HIn the restart he got disqualified and in pure frustration of the cheering crowd that greeted him when he arrived to the finish line made him perform his costly gesture.
The Super G race was later won by the Norwegian, Kjetil André Aamodt. He, on the other hand, was very happy.
Posted 02/20/06
Watch the Torino 2006 Olymics for free on your PC
Yes it's true - and not just a wild claim - as it appears the Dutch broadcaster NOOS have the rights to stream live events on their website. (This is probably old news for you websavvy sports fans out there in cyber space) Under the dashing title Winterspelen Turijn they present a feed of six different channels to choose from. The feeds are broadcasted without comments, only with the natural stadium sound so it should also be possible to watch it for some time without getting tired of Dutch comments. (It's a fascinating language, but that's for another story)
The broadcasts are 320 x 240 pixels and it requires a broadband connection of at least 300 kbit/s and Internet Explorer and Windows Medial Player. So enjoy and check out our Dutch favourite friends at the moment, NOOS.
Posted 02/20/06
Happy Italians win the men's cross country relay
Italy managed to beat all the great traditional cross country nations and won their third Gold medal so far in the Torino 2006 Olympics. After beating Mathias Fredriksson from Sweden in a sprint to the finish line, Germany's World Cup leader Thomas Angerer secured the second place.
The men's cross country relay is for many considered the most prestigious competition of the cross country events and Giorgio Di Centa, Fulvio Valbusa, Pietro Piller Cottrer and Christian Zorzi managed to perform the best on the 4x10 km.
A very disappointed Norwegian team had to conclude that Torino 2006 won't go down as the most memorable Olympics for the norse skiers and ended finished fifth, one minute 10secs behind.
"We are the best. I wanted to end my career with an Olympic Gold Medal and I got it, it's just incredible", said Fulvio Valbusa after their victory. "We gave everything, all our heart, we were great!" Were the excited words from the Italians who haven't exactly been spoilt with gold medals in this season's World Cup.
Giorgio Di Centa said it best to the Torino newspaper La Stampa: "I still don't believe it!" Congratulations!
Posted 02/20/06
This is how a winner looks like
This is the face of a champ in the Torino 2006 Olympics! The Russian figure skater Evgeni Plushenko won the gold medal in the men's free programme and at the same time scored a personal best of 167.67 points. The picture is taken from the blog of figure skater Michael Weiss who has some interesting comments on the Quad - at least if you're into figure skating statistics and point giving.
His initial question is:
"So the question is, to Quad or not to Quad? " and I guess Plushenko, who is one of the few that can perform a quad flawlessly in a competition, just answered that question...
(Via AOL journals)
Posted 02/16/06
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