2006 Winter Olympics: Difference between revisions

The 2006 Winter Olympics featured 84 medal events over 15 disciplines in 7 sports.<ref name="Turin 2006 IOC">{{cite web |url=http://olympic.org/uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=2&OLGY=2006 |title=Turin 2006—XXth Olympic Winter Games |publisher=[[International Olympic Committee]] |access-date=18 April 2007 |archive-date=9 June 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060609161212/http://olympic.org/uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=2&OLGY=2006 |url-status=live }}</ref> Unlike the previous 4four editions of the Winter Games, no new sport/discipline was introduced to the program in this edition. However, 8Eight new events were added in disciplines that already existed inon the Olympic Program.Thrprogram, list of new events wereincluding mass start in biathlon, team sprint in cross-country skiing,border boarder cross in snowboard, and the team pursuit in speed skating.In, all these eventswith both events for men's and women's were heldcompetitions.<ref name="Events">{{cite web |url=http://multimedia.olympic.org/pdf/en_report_851.pdf |title=Factsheet—Olympic Winter Programme |date=7 February 2007 |publisher=[[International Olympic Committee]] |access-date=18 April 2007| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070418115011/http://multimedia.olympic.org/pdf/en_report_851.pdf| archive-date=18 April 2007| url-status= dead}}</ref> The International Ski Federation introduced an alternating system for cross-country skiing styles in certain events. Long-distance races (30&nbsp;km for women and 50&nbsp;km for men) that were contested in the classic style during the [[2002 Winter Olympics]] were freestyle events in Torino.

The following list shows the sports and disciplines that were contested at the 2006 Games.:

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A record 80 [[National Olympic Committee]]s (NOCs) entered athletes at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. This was an increase of two from the 78 represented at the [[2002 Olympic Winter Games]]. The number in parentheses indicates the number of participants that NOC contributed. It was the first appearance for Albania, Ethiopia and Madagascar. It was the only appearance at the Winter Olympics for [[Serbia and Montenegro]], coming between the country's name change in 2003 from the [[Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]] and Montenegro's then-pending [[2006 Montenegrin independence referendum|vote for independence]] in May 2006. Algeria returned to the Winter games after a 14-year absence, Senegal returned to the Winter games after a 12-year absence, and Luxembourg, North Korea and Portugal returned after 8 years. Six countries, Cameroon, Fiji, Jamaica, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Trinidad and Tobago which were at the 2002 Games, did not participate in 2006.