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Torino 2006
The Olympic Games, or Olympics, are an international multi-sport event taking place every four years which comprises of summer and winter games. Though the first ancient games were held in 776 B.C, the modern games started from 1896.The unity of the 5 continents is shown on the Olympic flag by five colorful intertwined rings of red, blue, green, yellow, and black, created by Baron Pierre de Coubertin to represent atleast one color of the participating country’s national flag.
Torino 2006 Opening ceremony on 10 February 2006 and Closing date 26 February 2006. The 2006 Winter Olympics, held in Torino were included 80 Nations, 2,508 athletes, 960 women, 1,548 men, and 84 events 22,000 volunteers. Torino 2006 arranged in the Country of the host city Italy for 2006. Candidate cities were Helsinki, Klagenfurt, Poprad-Tatry, Sion, and Zakopane. In these Olympic sports contains Bobsleigh, Curling, Ice Hockey, Skating, Skiing, Biathlon, and Luge.
On the women’s side, Sun-Yu Jin earned three gold medals, and for the men Hyun-Soo Ahn won three golds and one bronze. The other triple-gold winner was Michael Greis in biathlon. Cindy Klassen earned medals in five of the six women’s speed skating events. Another speed skater, Claudia Peschstein, won a gold and a silver to become the first athlete in her sport to earn nine career medals. With his victory in the Super G, Kjetil Andre Aamodt became the first Alpine skier to earn four medals in the same event and the first to win four gold medals in total.
At the age of 39, skeleton specialist Duff Gibson became the oldest athlete in the history of the Olympic Winter Games to win a gold medal in an individual event. Andre Lange drove to victory in the two-man bobsleigh and then defended his Olympic championship in the four man event. During the cross country skiing team sprint, Sara Renner of Canada broke one of her poles. In that Torino 2006 year Germany achieved good position with hard working. They got 11, 12, 6 medals respectively Gold, Silver, Bronze in that specific year.
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