2006 Winter Olympics

The 2006 Olympic Winter Games are currently being held in Turin (Torino), Italy. The Games began February 10, 2006 and will last until February 26, 2006. It is the second time that Italy has hosted the Olympic Winter Games, as it hosted the VII Olympic Winter Games in Cortina d'Ampezzo in 1956, and the third time overall that Italy will have hosted an Olympic Games, as it also hosted the Games of the XVII Olympiad in Rome in 1960.

The official logo displays the name "Torino", the Italian name of the city called "Turin" in English (and in the local Piedmontese). The Olympic mascots of Torino 2006 are Neve ("snow" in Italian), a female snowball, and Gliz, a male ice cube. The official motto of the XX Olympic Winter Games is "Passion lives here."

Results

Medals table (Host nation highlighted; sorted in terms of most gold medals.) 2006 Winter Olympics medal count Pos Country Total 1 7 7 4 18 2 7 5 3 15 7 5 3 15 4 7 2 5 14 5 3 6 5 14 6 3 3 1 7 7 3 1 2 6 8 3 0 4 7 9 3 0 0 3 10 2 7 8 17