Sven Fischer of Germany edged out two-time defending Olympic champion Ole Einar Bjoerndalen to take the Gold at the Biathlon event.
Fischer finished the 10km sprint in 26 minutes 11.6 seconds. His closest rival, Silver Medalist Halvard Hanevold of Norway, was 8.2 seconds behind.
Fischer elevated (Source: International Olympic Committee)
Tags: Biathlon, Torino_2006, turin, winter-games, winter_olympics, winter_olympics_2006
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Unfortunately, here in Canada .. we don’t get those NBC Google videos … But, I thought it would be nice to have ONE great post with tons of great links of pictures and videos that EVERYONE around the world can view and enjoy! Feel free to post your own URL of photos from the 2006 […]
Like what I predicted on the day of the Winter Olympic Opening Ceremony, recorded videos of various Olympic events are now available at Google Video.
Olympic Videos at Google Video (Source: Google)
You can watch events ranging from Alpine Skiing to Figure Skating to Snowboarding to Speed Skating.
Tags: News, opening_ceremony, Skiing, Snowboarding, techy-stuff, Torino_2006, turin, winter-games, winter_olympics, […]
Could a doping scandal be brewing or is this just a case of cross country skiers keeping up with the Jones’? Hey, he/she is doing it, so I have to do it to compete with them. Whatever the case, why if this practice is illegal is the suspension only for five days?
Eight Olympic cross-country skiers, […]
The Opening Ceremony for 2006 Winter Olympics (Torino, Italy) is officially underway.
Hi! My name is YC. I am the Chief Resident Technocrat from the Technocrat Soapbox. I would like to thank Mr. Jeremy Wright for the opportunity to blog on the 2006 Winter Olympics.
An avid Snowboarder myself living in California, I will […]
I’ve been confused lately about the whole Turin/Torino thing. For the longest time I thought it was “Torino”, then I saw “Turin” poping up everywhere, so I started calling it that. Then I started seeing it referred to as “Torino” again.
If you’re a bit on the slow side like me, then allow me to […]
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