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The Pride of Italy: Turin Holds Large Gay Pride Parade

"An Italian Cabinet minister’s remarks that she would attend a gay parade Saturday and favors giving legal rights to homosexual unions have renewed a debate in the overwhelmingly Catholic country over the...

Evidence Mounts Against Austrian Coach

"AP - Evidence is mounting that a banned Austrian ski coach stirred up a major doping scandal at the Olympics."

Gretzky: Men's hockey team must have more fun

"As Canadian hockey fans panic over the sputtering men's Olympic hockey team, Wayne Gretzky offered words of wisdom to the players: Be more intense, but enjoy it. Gretzky, who is Team Canada's executive director, said the players are under even greater pressure than the 2002...

History of Snowboarding In The Olympics

Snowboarding is as popualr as ever, and the Olympics is showing why so many love the sport... "Snowboarding made its Olympic debut in the 1998 Winter Games in Nagano, Japan with a total of four competitions divided into two categories: men's & women's halfpipe and men's &...

Doping strikes the Winter Games (Reuters)

"Reuters - Doping struck the Winter Olympics on Thursday, bruising a Games that officials had hoped would restore the image of clean sports competition after the scandals of the Athens Summer Games."

Dorfmeister Wins Downhill; Kildow Eighth (AP)

"AP - Austrian Michaela Dorfmeister overcame deteriorating weather and Olympic disappointment Wednesday to win long-elusive skiing gold in the women's downhill."

Canadian Men Get Brief Scare From Italy (AP)

"AP - Jarome Iginla started these Olympics the same way he ended them in Salt Lake City — with two goals — and gold medal favorite Canada survived a brief scare with a dominating second period in a 7-2...

Treacherous Games slope claims victims (Reuters)

"Reuters - The treacherous Olympic downhill slope claimed two high-profile victims on Monday and the oldest woman competitor quit the Winter Games after a crash in the luge."

U.S. Boarders Go 1-2 Again in Halfpipe (AP)

"AP - Not to be outdone by the boys, Hannah Teter won gold and Gretchen Bleiler won silver — another set of Olympic medals for the United States on the halfpipe. And just like the men, the women came...

First gold medal for Canada in Torino

Jennifer Heil from Spruce Grove, Alberta has won Canada's first Gold at Torino for Women's Moguls.

Doping threatens to tarnish Games opening (Reuters)

"Reuters - Doping threatened to taint the opening of the Winter Olympics on Friday as athletes and dignitaries prepared for an inaugural ceremony launching two weeks of sport."

Italy Ready For Big Show In Turin

  "" About all that was left to do Wednesday at the women's alpine skiing venue was to plaster a few more of the ubiquitous "Torino 2006" logos on the grandstands.""  

Canadian creative team for Torino 2006 Closing Ceremony

"Creative team for Olympic Closing ceremonies includes Robert Lepage."

Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan to be the First Quadriplegic to Accept Olympic F...

 Over the past month, Kris Krug of Bryght, Robert Scales of Raincity Studios and various other Vancouver companies have been working together with New Media BC and Leading Edge BC to coordinate a technology symposium at the BC Canada Place next month during the Torino...

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