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San Francisco is a site of protest with the 2008 Olympic Torch coming into town on its only stop in North America.
Sergio Chiamparino, the Mayor of Turin, has spoken of the hugely positive effect the 2006 Winter Olympics has had on his city.
Sasha Cohen's history of falling in the biggest international events bit her again, falling twice in the free program, but still earned a silver medal.
At a military air base in Camperi, around 100 km from Turin, HH3F helicopters provide the Olympics with protection from the air.
Russia Hockey general manager Pavel Bure was delighted over a momentous victory over the Canadians, the defending Olympic champions.
The Austrian Ski Federation said they had hired an Italian lawyer, Giampaolo Zancan, to investigate if they have a case against local police in Turin.
Austria's team officials have blasted the International Olympic Committee for not releasing the results so, they claim, their athletes can clear their names.
The International Olympic Committee were back in the spotlight on Tuesday as the world waits impatiently for the results of the surprise drug tests on 10 Austrian athletes.
The two Austrian Olympic athletes who disappeared from Turin hours after Sunday's police raids have claimed they were badly treated by Italian authorities.
At the Austrian headquarters officials are seething over Sunday's early-morning drug raids by Italian authorities.
A third gold medal for host country Italy brought the Turin Winter Olympics back on track on Sunday after the unsavoury drug raids of the night before.
World Anti-doping chief Dick Pound welcomed the swoop on the Austrian ski teams on Sunday as the World Anti-Doping Agency and Torino 2006 stepped up their fight against drug cheats.
The 2006 Winter Olympics was rocked by another doping scandal when Italian police and the IOC raided the living quarters of the Austrian biathlon and cross-country teams.
Russia's Olga Pyleva was stripped of her medal and expelled from the Games on Thursday after testing positive for the banned stimulant carphedon.
China's Turin 2006 Delegation Secretary-General Wang Yitao has paid tribute to the 'great skills' and 'fighting spirit' of the country's pairs figure skaters.
Not expecting to even be at Torino 2006, Emily Hughes had her official introduction to the Olympic Games media pledged to do her best to repeat her sister Sarah's performance four years ago.
Zhang Dan's crash and subsequent recovery and silver medal performance has become one of the defining moments at Torino 2006.
Joey Cheek is a big name in Turin after taking speed skating gold over 500 metres. Now the American will be hoping to double his haul, over double that distance on Saturday.
The USA's Jay Hakkinen learned on the opening day of competition in Turin that any advantage, no matter how small, can be the difference between and Olympic medal and obscurity.
Nike's 35 full-time employees in their Advanced Innovation Team have come up with a uniform enabling players to stay cooler, drier and more comfortable.
Russia ended a 12-year drought with two medals in two days including Svetlana Zhurova's gold in the women's 500m speed skate.
At 54-years-old, Scott Baird of Minnesota became the oldest Winter Olympian ever when the USA beat Norway in their opening match on Monday.
Shaun White returns to the United States after winning gold in Snowboard Men's Half Pipe.
Under-fire ice hockey great Wayne Gretzky arrived in Turin with the Canadian ice hockey team late on Tuesday and the world's media clamored to get a glimpse of him.
In the men's combined event, favorite Bode Miller was on track to win gold until officials determined he'd straddled a gate in his first slalom run and he was disqualified.
Skiing fans were left in awe of the Olympic ideal when 21-year-old Ted Ligety became an unlikely Olympic champion with victory in the Alpine men's combined event.
During the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City Vonetta Flowers became the first African-American woman to win a Winter Olympic title. She's in Turin with a new motivation.
Joey Cheek of the United States captured the men's 500m speedskating gold medal with the two fastest runs of the competition and will donate any prize money to a Sudanese relief project.
In her daily briefing, IOC Communications Director Giselle Davies revealed the good news that no athlete has so far failed a drug test at the Turin Winter Olympics.
Brock Kreitzburg of USA 2 took up the sport just four years ago, around the time Bill Schuffenhauer was winning silver with USA 1 in Salt Lake.
Same story. Different Continent. Wayne Gretzky faces questions about gambling allegations as Team Canada reaches Turin for the Olympic Games.
In the first days of the 2006 Winter Olympics, two U.S. athletes won gold. The first gold went to speed skater Chad Hedrick, the second to snowboarder Shaun White.
With the first weekend of competition in Turin completed, the International Olympic Committee confirmed that no athlete had failed a drug test.
By all accounts Alisa Camplin should not be in Turin.The Australian freestyle skier underwent serious knee surgery just three months ago.
A day ahead of Valentine's Day, love is definitely in the air for one member of the US ladies curling team.
The torch's 64-day trek across Italy comes to an end on Friday when it's used to light the cauldron at Turin's Olympic Stadium during the opening ceremony.
On the day the 2006 Winter Games officially begin, the International Olympic Committee's top man was forced to address the familiar scourge of the Olympic movement.
