Friday, February 17, 2006

Torino 2006 Winter Olympic Games

China's Wang Meng celebrates her gold medal during the medal ceremony for the Women's Short Track Speedskating 500 meters at the Turin 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin, Italy Thursday Feb. 16, 2006. (AP Photo/Greg Baker)

Wascott wins : US Seth Wescott waves his national flag after winning the Men's Snowboard Cross final at the Turin 2006 Winter Olympics, in Bardonecchia, Italy. (AFP/Joe Klamar)

Course workers ski down the track as they attempt to prepare the piste for Women's Downhill track at the Turin 2006 Winter Olympic Games in San Sicario Fraiteve, Italy, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2006. (AP Photo/Thomas Kienzle)

A course official moves Olympic banners down the piste of the women's combined downhill course after the race was postponed to 1 p.m. due to bad weather at the Torino 2006 Winter Olympic Games in San Sicario, Italy, February 17, 2006. Organisers said the downhill will begin one hour later than scheduled and will start from the super-G start, making the course almost 500 metres shorter. REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini

A course worker uses a snow blower on the finish area of the women's combined downhill course after the race was postponed to 1 p.m. due to bad weather at the Torino 2006 Winter Olympic Games in San Sicario, Italy February 17, 2006. Organisers said the downhill will begin one hour later than scheduled and from the super-G start, making the course almost 500 metres shorter. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger

Competitors pass a tree in blizzard conditions, during the Men's 15K Classical Cross Country race at the Turin 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Pragelato Plan, Italy, Friday Feb. 17, 2006. .(AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
The Olympic flame burns during the Torino 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin, Italy, February 17, 2006. REUTERS/Petr Josek
The Olympic flag and the Olympic flame in Turin. Nielsen Media research revelas that prime-time viewership for the first six nights of the Olympics from Turin is down 36 percent from Salt Lake City four years ago, 17 percent from Nagano in 1998 and 44 percent from the 1994 event in Lillehammer(AFP/File)

American Lindsey Jacobellis heads towards a jump, with no competitors in sight, background, as she leads in the final of the Women's Snowboard Cross competition at the Turin 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Bardonecchia, Italy, Friday, Feb. 17, 2006. Jacobellis crashed in sight of the finish line allowing Tanja Frieden of Switzerland to take the gold medal, Jacobellis finished second to take the silver medal, and Dominique Maltais of Canada bronze. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)American Lindsey Jacobellis takes the second to last jump prior to her crash as she was leading in the final of the Women's Snowboard Cross competition at the Turin 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Bardonecchia, Italy, Friday, Feb. 17, 2006. Tanja Frieden of Switzerland won the race to take the gold medal, Jacobellis finished second to take the silver medal, and Dominique Maltais of Canada bronze. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)
The bridge leading to the Turin Olympic village, three days before the official start of the Winter Olympic Games. Two days to go and the last minute rush ahead of the 20th Winter Olympics has gone into overdrive in Turin.(AFP/Franck Fife)
The Olympic flame burns after being lit to marking the beginning of the Turin 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin, Italy, Friday Feb. 10, 2006.(AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Norway's Lars Bystoel looks through his gold medal, after winning the individual Normal Hill Ski Jumping, at the Turin 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Pragelato, Italy, Sunday Feb. 12, 2006. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
The ski jump is reflected in the goggles of Japan's Noriaki Kasai during the free practice for the lh individual competition at the Torino 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Pragelato, Italy, February 14, 2006. REUTERS/Pascal Lauener

No comments: