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Day 12 - February 22
Alpine skiing: Anja Pärson of Sweden wins her first Olympic gold medal in the women's slalom; she now owns five career medals. Austrians Nicole Hosp and Marlies Schild take silver and bronze. Janica Kostelic of Croatia fails to add to her record six career women's alpine medals, finishing 0.15 seconds behind Schild.
Cross-country skiing: Chandra Crawford of Canada wins a gold medal in her Olympic debut in the women's 1.1 km sprint. Germany's Claudia Künzel edges out Russia's Alena Sidko to earn the silver.
Björn Lind of Sweden claims the gold medal in the men's sprint leaving his opponents far behind. France's Roddy Darragon edges out Swede Thobias Fredriksson to earn the silver while Cristian Zorzi of Italy does not repeat his performance from the relay and finishes fourth.
Curling: In the men's semi-finals, Canada takes a massive 5 points against the United States in the 9th end, securing it a place in the final against Finland, who beat Great Britain 4-3. In the women's semi-finals. Sweden edges out Norway 5-4, while Switzerland beats Canada 7-5.
Freestyle skiing: In the Women's aerials Evelyne Leu of Switzerland wins the gold medal, ahead of Li Nina of China and Australian Alisa Camplin.
Ice hockey: Russia defeats Canada 2-0, moving on to the semifinals to play Finland, who defeats the United States 4-3. The Czech Republic defeats Slovakia 3-1 and will play in the semifinals against Sweden, who defeats Switzerland 6-2.
Short track speed skating: South Korea wins the gold medal in the women's 3,000 m relay, while Canada takes silver, and Italy bronze.
Snowboarding: Philipp Schoch of Switzerland bests his older brother Simon Schoch in the final of the men's parallel giant slalom to successfully defend his Olympic gold medal. Siegfried Grabner of Austria takes bronze.
Speed skating: Canadians Cindy Klassen and Kristina Groves finish one-two in the women's 1,500 metres, with Klassen winning by a dominant 1.47 seconds. Dutch Ireen Wust takes bronze, while German medal favourite Anni Friesinger finishes fourth and misses out on the medals.
Day 11 - February 21
Biathlon: The German team takes gold in the Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay while teams from Russia and France take silver and bronze respectively.
Bobsleigh: The German team of Sandra Kiriasis and Anja Schneiderheinze win gold in the women's event ahead of teams from the United States (Shauna Rohbock and Valerie Fleming) and Italy (Gerda Weissensteiner and Jennifer Isacco).
Figure Skating: Sasha Cohen of the United States leads after the women's short program, with Russian Irina Slutskaya three-hundredths of a point behind. Shizuka Arakawa of Japan is in third.
Ice hockey: Slovakia defeats Sweden 3-0, winning every match in Group B and moving on to the quarterfinals, along with Russia, Sweden and the United States. In Group A, Finland, Switzerland, Canada, and the Czech Republic are all moving on to the quarterfinals.
Nordic combined: Felix Gottwald of Austria wins gold in the LH Sprint competition while Norway's Magnus Moan and Germany's Georg Hettich finish in the silver and bronze positions.
Speed skating: Italian Enrico Fabris wins gold in the men's 1500m ahead of feuding American teammates Shani Davis and Chad Hedrick who take silver and bronze. Prior to these Games, Italy had never won an Olympic medal in speed skating. They have now won three, all by Fabris, either individually or as part of a team event.
Day 10 - February 20
Alpine skiing: Benjamin Raich of Austria comes from fifth place in the first run to win the men's giant slalom event after two runs. Joël Chenal of France takes silver, and Hermann Maier of Austria gets another medal with his bronze.
Two hours later Michaela Dorfmeister wins the women's super-g event and grabs her second gold medal of the Games and Austria's second gold of the day. Austria also gets its second bronze of the day, as Alexandra Meissnitzer comes in third, behind Croatia's powerhouse, Janica Kostelić.
Curling: After downing Denmark 8–1, Norway becomes the third team to qualify for the semi-finals in the women's competition, joining Sweden and Switzerland. Canada beats Denmark 9-8, occupying the fourth playoff spot.
In the men's competition, Canada defeats the United States 6-3 to qualify for the semi-finals, and will play the USA again in the first game of the medal round.
Figure Skating: Russia continues to dominate on the ice as Tatiana Navka and Roman Kostomarov win the gold in the Ice Dancing competition. Americans Tanith Belbin and Benjamin Agosto get the first U.S. medals in this event since 1976 and take home the silver. Elena Grushina and Ruslan Goncharov of Ukraine earn bronze.
Ice hockey: Canada wins the gold in the women's tournament, defeating Sweden 4-1. The United States shuts out Finland 4-0 in the bronze medal game. Katie King scores a hat trick for the Americans.
Ski jumping: Austria wins the team event for the first time. Finland takes the silver, while Norway takes the bronze.
Day 9 - February 19
Bobsleigh: The German bob driven by Andre Lange wins gold in the men's 2-man event 0.21 seconds ahead of the Canadian bob driven by Pierre Lueders and 0.35 seconds ahead of Martin Annen's Swiss sled.
Cross country skiing: Italy takes the gold in the men's 4x10km relay, with Italian anchor Cristian Zorzi crossing the finish line 15 seconds ahead of silver medalist, Germany. Sweden takes the bronze.
Curling: In the men's competition, the United States surprises Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 9-8. All teams now have at least two losses in the round robin.
Ice hockey: Finland defeats Canada 2-0 in the men's competition. Canada, the incoming favorite, has been held scoreless over the past two games but is not at risk of being eliminated during this stage.
Speed skating: Marianne Timmer of the Netherlands wins the women's 1000m in 1.16.05, 8 years after winning in Nagano. Cindy Klassen of Canada comes in second and favorite Anni Friesinger of Germany wins the bronze, 0.06 seconds behind Timmer.
Day 8 - February 18
Alpine skiing: Croatian Janica Kostelić takes gold in the women's combined. Austria 's Marlies Schild wins the silver and Anja Pärson from Sweden finishes third.
Kjetil André Aamodt wins gold for Norway in the mens Super G beating Hermann Maier of Austria. Ambrosi Hoffmann takes bronze for the Swiss.
Biathlon: Germany moves into first place on the medals table and stays there for a few hours as Kati Wilhelm and Martina Glagow finish first and second in the 10km pursuit. Albina Akhatova of Russia takes bronze.
Vincent Defrasne wins gold for France in the 12.5km pursuit event, followed closely by Ole Einar Bjørndalen of Norway. Germany's Sven Fischer takes bronze.
Cross country skiing: Russia wins the 20km women's relay handily, finishing 10 seconds ahead of silver medalists Germany and 11 seconds ahead of bronze winners Italy.
Curling: In the men's competition, Italy shocks Canada 6-5, while the United States takes care of Germany 8-5. Great Britain edges Switzerland, 6-5, and Finland takes out Norway 7-3.
Ice hockey: Switzerland stuns Canada 2-0 in the men's competition. Carolina Hurricanes goaltender Martin Gerber has 49 saves in the win.
Short track speed skating: Jin Sun-Yu and Choi Eun-Kyung of South Korea take gold and silver in the women's 1500m. China's Wang Meng takes bronze. In the men's 1000m, Ahn Hyun-Soo and Lee Ho-Suk of South Korea take gold and silver with United States' Apolo Anton Ohno taking the bronze.
Speed skating: The United States takes gold and silver in the men's 1000m with Shani Davis outskating Joey Cheek for first. Erben Wennemars of the Netherlands receives bronze. Davis' victory makes him the first person of African descent to ever win an individual gold medal in the history of the Winter Olympics. However, his victory was somewhat marred by his refusal to skate for the USA in the team pursuit which may have cost them a gold medal.
Ski jumping: After a disappointing performance on the K90 hill, austrian ski jumpers Thomas Morgenstern and Andreas Kofler take gold and silver on the large hill, with the smallest possible margin of 0.1 points between them. Lars Bystøl, winner of gold on the normal hill, places third.
Day 7 - February 17
Cross country skiing: Estonia gains another gold as Andrus Veerpalu wins the 15km classical cross-country race ahead of Lukáš Bauer and Tobias Angerer.
Curling: In the men's competition, Great Britain makes short work of Sweden 8-2, while the United States defeats Switzerland 7-4. Finland edges Canada, 6-5.
Figure skating: In the ice dancing competition, the Italian team of Barbara Fusar-Poli and Maurizio Margaglio lead after the compulsary dance, with Russians Tatiana Navka and Roman Kostomarov in second place.
Ice hockey: Sweden scores an upset victory against the United States in the women's hockey semi-finals after a 3-2 shoot out win to advance to the gold medal game. There, they will face Canada, who shut out Finland in the other semi-final.
Snowboarding: Tanja Frieden of Switzerland takes the gold in women's snowboarding cross after Lindsey Jacobellis of USA falls on the second to last jump while performing an unneccesary and difficult method grab to give up the largest lead of the entire tournament. Jacobellis settles for silver, while Canada's Dominique Maltais takes bronze.
Skeleton: Duff Gibson of Canada takes gold, just ahead of fellow Canadian Jeff Pain. Swiss slider Gregor Stähli wins the bronze. The 39-year-old Gibson becomes the oldest individual gold medalist in Winter Olympics history.
Day 6 - February 16
- Biathlon: Florence Baverel-Robert of France wins the women's biathlon 7.5 km sprint. Anna Carin Olofsson of Sweden and Lilia Efremova of Ukraine complete the podium. Olga Pyleva of Russia, who placed second at the 15km on day 3, has been disqualified from the Games following a positive test for carphedon. She has been stripped of her medal.
- Cross country skiing: Kristina Šmigun wins her second gold medal of these Games with her victory in the women's 10km classical and remains the only Estonian to medal.
- Curling: In men's action, Great Britain edges Germany 7-6, Switzerland keeps New Zealand winless by winning 9-7, Canada beats Norway 7-6, and the United States escapes with a 10-6 win over Sweden.
- Figure skating: Evgeny Plushenko of Russia dominates the competition and takes gold in the men's competition ahead of Switzerland's Stéphane Lambiel and Canada's Jeffrey Buttle. As he did in the short program, Plushenko sets a world record for the highest score in the free skate, since the new scoring system was started in 2003.
- Ice hockey: The upsets in the men's tournament continue as the Czech Republic is defeated by Switzerland 3-2. In other games, Finland shuts out Italy 6-0, Russia surprises Sweden 5-0, Slovakia defeats Latvia 6-3, Canada beats Germany 5-1, and the United States beats Kazakhstan 4-1. Play continues Saturday.
- Nordic combined: Austria wins the men's team competition after Mario Stecher catches up with Germany's Jens Gaiser on the final 5km leg. Finland wins bronze, finishing nearly a minute ahead of the rest of the field.
- Snowboarding: Seth Wescott of the United States wins the inaugural men's snowboard cross competition. Radoslav Zidek of Slovakia is second and Paul-Henri Delerue of France is third.
- Speed skating: The German team of Daniela Anschuetz Thoms, Anni Friesinger, and Claudia Pechstein defeats the Canadian team to win gold in the final of the women's team pursuit.
Minutes later, Italy wins its first ever Olympic speed skating gold, with Matteo Anesi, Enrico Fabris and Ippolito Sanfratello defeating Canada, which take its second silver in the Lingotto.
- Skeleton: Maya Pedersen-Bieri of Switzerland wins gold in the women's final. Shelley Rudman of Great Britain earns silver, the first medal of the games for Great Britain. Melissa Hollingsworth-Richards of Canada claims bronze.
Day 5 - February 15
- Alpine skiing: Michaela Dorfmeister of Austria wins the women's downhill. Martina Schild of Switzerland and Anja Pärson of Sweden complete the podium.
- Ice hockey: On the first day of men's competition, Canada defeated Italy 7-2. In upsets, Latvia tied the USA 3-3 and Russia was defeated by Slovakia 5-3.
- Luge: Austrian brothers Andreas and Wolfgang Linger win the men's doubles competition. Teams from Germany and Italy take the silver and bronze.
- Nordic combined: High winds in the ski jumping hill force the jury to abandon the team competition midway through the second round. The teams will resume tomorrow.
- Speed skating: Canada sets the first new records of the Games when both their men's and ladies' team pursuit team set new Olympic records. In the men's competition this is then broken by The Netherlands, and then by Italy. The Men's semi-finals on the 16th will be Canada vs. Norway and The Netherlands vs. Italy.
- Short track: China's Wang Meng wins China's first gold at Turin in the women's individual 500m. Bulgaria's Evgenia Radanova takes the silver, while Canada's Anouk Leblanc-Boucher claims the bronze.
Day 4 - February 14
- Alpine skiing: Ted Ligety wins gold for the [[United States at the 2006 Winter Olympics|United States]. Bode Miller was disqualified for straddling a gate in the first slalom section of the Men's Combined. Ivica Kostelić of Croatia was second and Rainer Schönfelder of Austria took the bronze.
- Biathlon: Sven Fischer of Germany wins the 10 km sprint race.
- Cross country: Sweden's first medal in the 2006 Winter Olympics was brought home by Lina Andersson and Anna Dahlberg, who won the gold medal in women's team sprint, classical style. Minutes later Thobias Fredriksson and Björn Lind did the same in men's team sprint, bringing both gold medals in the event to Sweden.
- Luge: Germany's Sylke Otto wins gold in the injury-plagued women's luge event while countrywomen Silke Kraushaar and Tatjana Huefner complete the podium.
- Speed skating: Svetlana Zhurova of Russia takes gold in the women's 500 meter. Wang Manli and Ren Hui of China win the other two medals, but China are yet to win a gold at these Games.
Day 3 - February 13
- Biathlon: Russia's Svetlana Ishmouratova wins the women's 15 km biathlon.
- Figure skating: Russian pair Totmianina and Marinin beat two Chinese pairs to take home the gold, posting the only composite score over 200. Chinese pair Zhang Dan and Zhang Hao finished their free skate despite a seemingly terrible injury after the attempt at a quadruple throw.
- Snowboarding: Hannah Teter of the U.S team takes the gold medal at the women's snowboarding halfpipe event.
- Speed skating: Joey Cheek of the United States wins the gold medal at the 500m long track event, skating both runs in less than 35 seconds; the fastest time of any other competitor was that of silver medallist Dmitry Dorofeyev, with 35.17.
Day 2 - February 12
- Alpine Skiing: Antoine Deneriaz from France wins the men's downhill event, securing the gold medal.
- Cross country: Estonian Kristina Šmigun wins the women's .5+7.5 km double pursuit event; a few hours later, Evgeni Dementiev secures gold for Russia on the men's 15km+15km distance.
- Figure skating: Michelle Kwan withdraws from the Olympics following a groin injury in practice.
- Luge: Armin Zoeggeler of Italy wins the gold in men's singles.
- Snowboarding: Shaun White of the U.S team takes the gold medal at the men's snowboarding halfpipe event.
- Speed skating: 19-year old Ireen Wüst of The Netherlands wins gold at the women's 3000m long-track event.
- Ski jumping: Lars Bystøl from Norway takes the gold medal at the men's normal hill K90 ski jumping.
Day 1 - February 11
- Biathlon: Michael Greis of Germany wins the first gold medal of the 2006 Winter Olympics, with a victory in the Individual 20km biathlon race.
- Freestyle skiing: Jennifer Heil becomes the first Canadian woman to win a medal in moguls when she picked up a gold medal.
- Ice hockey: The Canadian national women's hockey team sets an Olympic record of most lopsided win when they beat the host Italians 16-0.
- Nordic combined: Germany takes the lead in the medal count, with Georg Hettich picking up a gold medal in nordic combined.
- Speed skating: American Chad Hedrick wins the 5000m long-track event.
Opening ceremony - February 10
The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin, Italy, with the opening ceremony at the Stadio Comunale.
Day 12 - February 22
Alpine skiing: Anja Pärson of Sweden wins her first Olympic gold medal in the women's slalom; she now owns five career medals. Austrians Nicole Hosp and Marlies Schild take silver and bronze. Janica Kostelic of Croatia fails to add to her record six career women's alpine medals, finishing 0.15 seconds behind Schild.
Cross-country skiing: Chandra Crawford of Canada wins a gold medal in her Olympic debut in the women's 1.1 km sprint. Germany's Claudia Künzel edges out Russia's Alena Sidko to earn the silver.
Björn Lind of Sweden claims the gold medal in the men's sprint leaving his opponents far behind. France's Roddy Darragon edges out Swede Thobias Fredriksson to earn the silver while Cristian Zorzi of Italy does not repeat his performance from the relay and finishes fourth.
Curling: In the men's semi-finals, Canada takes a massive 5 points against the United States in the 9th end, securing it a place in the final against Finland, who beat Great Britain 4-3. In the women's semi-finals. Sweden edges out Norway 5-4, while Switzerland beats Canada 7-5.
Freestyle skiing: In the Women's aerials Evelyne Leu of Switzerland wins the gold medal, ahead of Li Nina of China and Australian Alisa Camplin.
Ice hockey: Russia defeats Canada 2-0, moving on to the semifinals to play Finland, who defeats the United States 4-3. The Czech Republic defeats Slovakia 3-1 and will play in the semifinals against Sweden, who defeats Switzerland 6-2.
Short track speed skating: South Korea wins the gold medal in the women's 3,000 m relay, while Canada takes silver, and Italy bronze.
Snowboarding: Philipp Schoch of Switzerland bests his older brother Simon Schoch in the final of the men's parallel giant slalom to successfully defend his Olympic gold medal. Siegfried Grabner of Austria takes bronze.
Speed skating: Canadians Cindy Klassen and Kristina Groves finish one-two in the women's 1,500 metres, with Klassen winning by a dominant 1.47 seconds. Dutch Ireen Wust takes bronze, while German medal favourite Anni Friesinger finishes fourth and misses out on the medals.
Day 11 - February 21
Biathlon: The German team takes gold in the Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay while teams from Russia and France take silver and bronze respectively.
Bobsleigh: The German team of Sandra Kiriasis and Anja Schneiderheinze win gold in the women's event ahead of teams from the United States (Shauna Rohbock and Valerie Fleming) and Italy (Gerda Weissensteiner and Jennifer Isacco).
Figure Skating: Sasha Cohen of the United States leads after the women's short program, with Russian Irina Slutskaya three-hundredths of a point behind. Shizuka Arakawa of Japan is in third.
Ice hockey: Slovakia defeats Sweden 3-0, winning every match in Group B and moving on to the quarterfinals, along with Russia, Sweden and the United States. In Group A, Finland, Switzerland, Canada, and the Czech Republic are all moving on to the quarterfinals.
Nordic combined: Felix Gottwald of Austria wins gold in the LH Sprint competition while Norway's Magnus Moan and Germany's Georg Hettich finish in the silver and bronze positions.
Speed skating: Italian Enrico Fabris wins gold in the men's 1500m ahead of feuding American teammates Shani Davis and Chad Hedrick who take silver and bronze. Prior to these Games, Italy had never won an Olympic medal in speed skating. They have now won three, all by Fabris, either individually or as part of a team event.
Day 10 - February 20
Alpine skiing: Benjamin Raich of Austria comes from fifth place in the first run to win the men's giant slalom event after two runs. Joël Chenal of France takes silver, and Hermann Maier of Austria gets another medal with his bronze.
Two hours later Michaela Dorfmeister wins the women's super-g event and grabs her second gold medal of the Games and Austria's second gold of the day. Austria also gets its second bronze of the day, as Alexandra Meissnitzer comes in third, behind Croatia's powerhouse, Janica Kostelić.
Curling: After downing Denmark 8–1, Norway becomes the third team to qualify for the semi-finals in the women's competition, joining Sweden and Switzerland. Canada beats Denmark 9-8, occupying the fourth playoff spot.
In the men's competition, Canada defeats the United States 6-3 to qualify for the semi-finals, and will play the USA again in the first game of the medal round.
Figure Skating: Russia continues to dominate on the ice as Tatiana Navka and Roman Kostomarov win the gold in the Ice Dancing competition. Americans Tanith Belbin and Benjamin Agosto get the first U.S. medals in this event since 1976 and take home the silver. Elena Grushina and Ruslan Goncharov of Ukraine earn bronze.
Ice hockey: Canada wins the gold in the women's tournament, defeating Sweden 4-1. The United States shuts out Finland 4-0 in the bronze medal game. Katie King scores a hat trick for the Americans.
Ski jumping: Austria wins the team event for the first time. Finland takes the silver, while Norway takes the bronze.
Day 9 - February 19
Bobsleigh: The German bob driven by Andre Lange wins gold in the men's 2-man event 0.21 seconds ahead of the Canadian bob driven by Pierre Lueders and 0.35 seconds ahead of Martin Annen's Swiss sled.
Cross country skiing: Italy takes the gold in the men's 4x10km relay, with Italian anchor Cristian Zorzi crossing the finish line 15 seconds ahead of silver medalist, Germany. Sweden takes the bronze.
Curling: In the men's competition, the United States surprises Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 9-8. All teams now have at least two losses in the round robin.
Ice hockey: Finland defeats Canada 2-0 in the men's competition. Canada, the incoming favorite, has been held scoreless over the past two games but is not at risk of being eliminated during this stage.
Speed skating: Marianne Timmer of the Netherlands wins the women's 1000m in 1.16.05, 8 years after winning in Nagano. Cindy Klassen of Canada comes in second and favorite Anni Friesinger of Germany wins the bronze, 0.06 seconds behind Timmer.
Day 8 - February 18
Alpine skiing: Croatian Janica Kostelić takes gold in the women's combined. Austria 's Marlies Schild wins the silver and Anja Pärson from Sweden finishes third.
Kjetil André Aamodt wins gold for Norway in the mens Super G beating Hermann Maier of Austria. Ambrosi Hoffmann takes bronze for the Swiss.
Biathlon: Germany moves into first place on the medals table and stays there for a few hours as Kati Wilhelm and Martina Glagow finish first and second in the 10km pursuit. Albina Akhatova of Russia takes bronze.
Vincent Defrasne wins gold for France in the 12.5km pursuit event, followed closely by Ole Einar Bjørndalen of Norway. Germany's Sven Fischer takes bronze.
Cross country skiing: Russia wins the 20km women's relay handily, finishing 10 seconds ahead of silver medalists Germany and 11 seconds ahead of bronze winners Italy.
Curling: In the men's competition, Italy shocks Canada 6-5, while the United States takes care of Germany 8-5. Great Britain edges Switzerland, 6-5, and Finland takes out Norway 7-3.
Ice hockey: Switzerland stuns Canada 2-0 in the men's competition. Carolina Hurricanes goaltender Martin Gerber has 49 saves in the win.
Short track speed skating: Jin Sun-Yu and Choi Eun-Kyung of South Korea take gold and silver in the women's 1500m. China's Wang Meng takes bronze. In the men's 1000m, Ahn Hyun-Soo and Lee Ho-Suk of South Korea take gold and silver with United States' Apolo Anton Ohno taking the bronze.
Speed skating: The United States takes gold and silver in the men's 1000m with Shani Davis outskating Joey Cheek for first. Erben Wennemars of the Netherlands receives bronze. Davis' victory makes him the first person of African descent to ever win an individual gold medal in the history of the Winter Olympics. However, his victory was somewhat marred by his refusal to skate for the USA in the team pursuit which may have cost them a gold medal.
Ski jumping: After a disappointing performance on the K90 hill, austrian ski jumpers Thomas Morgenstern and Andreas Kofler take gold and silver on the large hill, with the smallest possible margin of 0.1 points between them. Lars Bystøl, winner of gold on the normal hill, places third.
Day 7 - February 17
Cross country skiing: Estonia gains another gold as Andrus Veerpalu wins the 15km classical cross-country race ahead of Lukáš Bauer and Tobias Angerer.
Curling: In the men's competition, Great Britain makes short work of Sweden 8-2, while the United States defeats Switzerland 7-4. Finland edges Canada, 6-5.
Figure skating: In the ice dancing competition, the Italian team of Barbara Fusar-Poli and Maurizio Margaglio lead after the compulsary dance, with Russians Tatiana Navka and Roman Kostomarov in second place.
Ice hockey: Sweden scores an upset victory against the United States in the women's hockey semi-finals after a 3-2 shoot out win to advance to the gold medal game. There, they will face Canada, who shut out Finland in the other semi-final.
Snowboarding: Tanja Frieden of Switzerland takes the gold in women's snowboarding cross after Lindsey Jacobellis of USA falls on the second to last jump while performing an unneccesary and difficult method grab to give up the largest lead of the entire tournament. Jacobellis settles for silver, while Canada's Dominique Maltais takes bronze.
Skeleton: Duff Gibson of Canada takes gold, just ahead of fellow Canadian Jeff Pain. Swiss slider Gregor Stähli wins the bronze. The 39-year-old Gibson becomes the oldest individual gold medalist in Winter Olympics history.
Day 6 - February 16
- Biathlon: Florence Baverel-Robert of France wins the women's biathlon 7.5 km sprint. Anna Carin Olofsson of Sweden and Lilia Efremova of Ukraine complete the podium. Olga Pyleva of Russia, who placed second at the 15km on day 3, has been disqualified from the Games following a positive test for carphedon. She has been stripped of her medal.
- Cross country skiing: Kristina Šmigun wins her second gold medal of these Games with her victory in the women's 10km classical and remains the only Estonian to medal.
- Curling: In men's action, Great Britain edges Germany 7-6, Switzerland keeps New Zealand winless by winning 9-7, Canada beats Norway 7-6, and the United States escapes with a 10-6 win over Sweden.
- Figure skating: Evgeny Plushenko of Russia dominates the competition and takes gold in the men's competition ahead of Switzerland's Stéphane Lambiel and Canada's Jeffrey Buttle. As he did in the short program, Plushenko sets a world record for the highest score in the free skate, since the new scoring system was started in 2003.
- Ice hockey: The upsets in the men's tournament continue as the Czech Republic is defeated by Switzerland 3-2. In other games, Finland shuts out Italy 6-0, Russia surprises Sweden 5-0, Slovakia defeats Latvia 6-3, Canada beats Germany 5-1, and the United States beats Kazakhstan 4-1. Play continues Saturday.
- Nordic combined: Austria wins the men's team competition after Mario Stecher catches up with Germany's Jens Gaiser on the final 5km leg. Finland wins bronze, finishing nearly a minute ahead of the rest of the field.
- Snowboarding: Seth Wescott of the United States wins the inaugural men's snowboard cross competition. Radoslav Zidek of Slovakia is second and Paul-Henri Delerue of France is third.
- Speed skating: The German team of Daniela Anschuetz Thoms, Anni Friesinger, and Claudia Pechstein defeats the Canadian team to win gold in the final of the women's team pursuit.
Minutes later, Italy wins its first ever Olympic speed skating gold, with Matteo Anesi, Enrico Fabris and Ippolito Sanfratello defeating Canada, which take its second silver in the Lingotto.
- Skeleton: Maya Pedersen-Bieri of Switzerland wins gold in the women's final. Shelley Rudman of Great Britain earns silver, the first medal of the games for Great Britain. Melissa Hollingsworth-Richards of Canada claims bronze.
Day 5 - February 15
- Alpine skiing: Michaela Dorfmeister of Austria wins the women's downhill. Martina Schild of Switzerland and Anja Pärson of Sweden complete the podium.
- Ice hockey: On the first day of men's competition, Canada defeated Italy 7-2. In upsets, Latvia tied the USA 3-3 and Russia was defeated by Slovakia 5-3.
- Luge: Austrian brothers Andreas and Wolfgang Linger win the men's doubles competition. Teams from Germany and Italy take the silver and bronze.
- Nordic combined: High winds in the ski jumping hill force the jury to abandon the team competition midway through the second round. The teams will resume tomorrow.
- Speed skating: Canada sets the first new records of the Games when both their men's and ladies' team pursuit team set new Olympic records. In the men's competition this is then broken by The Netherlands, and then by Italy. The Men's semi-finals on the 16th will be Canada vs. Norway and The Netherlands vs. Italy.
- Short track: China's Wang Meng wins China's first gold at Turin in the women's individual 500m. Bulgaria's Evgenia Radanova takes the silver, while Canada's Anouk Leblanc-Boucher claims the bronze.
Day 4 - February 14
- Alpine skiing: Ted Ligety wins gold for the [[United States at the 2006 Winter Olympics|United States]. Bode Miller was disqualified for straddling a gate in the first slalom section of the Men's Combined. Ivica Kostelić of Croatia was second and Rainer Schönfelder of Austria took the bronze.
- Biathlon: Sven Fischer of Germany wins the 10 km sprint race.
- Cross country: Sweden's first medal in the 2006 Winter Olympics was brought home by Lina Andersson and Anna Dahlberg, who won the gold medal in women's team sprint, classical style. Minutes later Thobias Fredriksson and Björn Lind did the same in men's team sprint, bringing both gold medals in the event to Sweden.
- Luge: Germany's Sylke Otto wins gold in the injury-plagued women's luge event while countrywomen Silke Kraushaar and Tatjana Huefner complete the podium.
- Speed skating: Svetlana Zhurova of Russia takes gold in the women's 500 meter. Wang Manli and Ren Hui of China win the other two medals, but China are yet to win a gold at these Games.
Day 3 - February 13
- Biathlon: Russia's Svetlana Ishmouratova wins the women's 15 km biathlon.
- Figure skating: Russian pair Totmianina and Marinin beat two Chinese pairs to take home the gold, posting the only composite score over 200. Chinese pair Zhang Dan and Zhang Hao finished their free skate despite a seemingly terrible injury after the attempt at a quadruple throw.
- Snowboarding: Hannah Teter of the U.S team takes the gold medal at the women's snowboarding halfpipe event.
- Speed skating: Joey Cheek of the United States wins the gold medal at the 500m long track event, skating both runs in less than 35 seconds; the fastest time of any other competitor was that of silver medallist Dmitry Dorofeyev, with 35.17.
Day 2 - February 12
- Alpine Skiing: Antoine Deneriaz from France wins the men's downhill event, securing the gold medal.
- Cross country: Estonian Kristina Šmigun wins the women's .5+7.5 km double pursuit event; a few hours later, Evgeni Dementiev secures gold for Russia on the men's 15km+15km distance.
- Figure skating: Michelle Kwan withdraws from the Olympics following a groin injury in practice.
- Luge: Armin Zoeggeler of Italy wins the gold in men's singles.
- Snowboarding: Shaun White of the U.S team takes the gold medal at the men's snowboarding halfpipe event.
- Speed skating: 19-year old Ireen Wüst of The Netherlands wins gold at the women's 3000m long-track event.
- Ski jumping: Lars Bystøl from Norway takes the gold medal at the men's normal hill K90 ski jumping.
Day 1 - February 11
- Biathlon: Michael Greis of Germany wins the first gold medal of the 2006 Winter Olympics, with a victory in the Individual 20km biathlon race.
- Freestyle skiing: Jennifer Heil becomes the first Canadian woman to win a medal in moguls when she picked up a gold medal.
- Ice hockey: The Canadian national women's hockey team sets an Olympic record of most lopsided win when they beat the host Italians 16-0.
- Nordic combined: Germany takes the lead in the medal count, with Georg Hettich picking up a gold medal in nordic combined.
- Speed skating: American Chad Hedrick wins the 5000m long-track event.
Opening ceremony - February 10
The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin, Italy, with the opening ceremony at the Stadio Comunale.