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The rings on the Olympic flag are blue, black, red, yellow, and green on a white background.

The rings stand for the five parts of the world that joined together for the Olympic games. The continents are Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe.

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CLOSING CEREMONIES

Ciao, Torino
The world says good-bye to Torino, the host city of the XX Winter Games, and turns its focus from Italy to Canada and the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver.

Welcome To Our
Winter Olympics Review
Torino, Italy
2006

Who Is Winning What?

Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Norway	2	8	9	19
USA	9	9	7	25
Netherlands	3	2	4	9
Russia	8	6	8	22
Italy	5	0	6	11
Germany	11	12	6	29
South Korea	6	3	2	11
Canada	7	10	7	24
France	3	2	4	9
Austria	9	7	7	23
Finland	0	6	3	9
Estonia	3	0	0	3
Czech Republic	1	2	1	4
China	2	4	5	11
Lativa	0	0	1	1
Switzerland	5	4	5	14
Sweden	7	2	5	14
Australia	1	0	1	2
Bulgaria	0	1	0	1
Croatia	1	2	0	3
Ukraine	0	0	2	2
Great Britain	0	1	0	1
Slovakia	0	1	0	1
Poland	0	1	1	2
Japan	1	0	0	1
Belarus	0	1	0	1

The motto of the Olympic Games:
"Citius, altius, fortius", means "Faster, higher, stronger" in Latin.

WHAT'S NEW AT THE WINTER GAMES

Wescott wins first Olympic gold in snowboard cross!!!!!

Seth Wescott entered the first Olympic snowboard cross event ever as the favorite and he emerged with a gold medal after a thrilling final race.

There was bumping, thrashing, wipeouts and worse during the 90-minutes of NASCAR on Ice, a series of four-man races down the mountain with everyone vying for space on the tight, high-banked, 1,000-yard course

Cold war ... gold war

They are rivals first, teammates second. Shani Davis and Chad Hedrick turn their off-ice feud into a showdown for 1500m gold Tuesday.

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Empty handed

Bode Miller's Games are done and he'll leave Torino with no medals after straddling a gate in the first run of Saturday's slalom, his fifth and final event

Torino _ Those athletes taking part Sunday night in the closing ceremonies of the XX Olympic Winter Games will be both participants and spectators in the scheme designed to close the games in a carnival atmosphere.

To begin with, the athletes will be asked to wear red clown noses when they enter Olympic Stadium as a group before taking their place in the stands to watch the program. The rush of athletes will follow the parade of national flags the will be accompanied by those athletes chosen to be flag bearers. Speedskater Joey Cheek, winner of a gold medal and a silver medal in Torino, is the U.S. team's flag bearer.

EEach spectator also will be given a paper mask to wear to stay with the theme on the final day of the carnival period throughout Italy.

"It's a mix, with carnival as the base," said Andrea Varnier, TOROC managing director of image and events. "There will be hints of opera and hints of the old comedy right after the Renaissance. It's a carnival opera."

Throughout, the program will feature elegant costumes, two orchestras, garish masks, acrobats and a secret personality from the world of sports who will extinguish the Olympic Flame.

Marco Balich, the program's executive producer, described the overall theme as linking athletic prowess to art.

While it will be a celebration, organizers pointed out there will be a degree of sadness as well.

"A few weeks ago, we presented the opening ceremonies with a lot of tension (excitement) and now we're almost at the end," Varnier said as the 2006 Winter Olympics entered the final weekend.

"The opening ceremony is the welcoming from the host city. Closing is a farewell and celebration of the end. Together, it's a celebration, but with sadness. This big event for the city of Torino and the country of Italy is at the end."

As with Olympic protocol, Torino organizers will hand over responsibility of keeping the Olympic flame burning to organizers of the XXI Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver for the 2010 Winter Games.

"Closing ceremonies are a little more loose as you know," Varnier said. "We'll not be just saying good-by, but we'll be saying we'll see you in four years in Vancouver."

Officials from Team USA expect a good turnout from athletes who remOlympic Village. However, some already have returned home.

Tiddlywinks At The Next Summer Olympics?
Dave "The Dragon" Lockwood and his tournament tested sons, Max-16, Jon-13, and Ben-10 of Silver Springs, MD might come to competitive tiddlywinks what the Manning family of quarterbacks is to football, according to a January Washington Post story. Dave was previously ranked No. 1 in the English Tiddlywinks Association (and is currently No. 8, with Max No. 52). "Tiddlywinks doesn't sound very serious," said Max, but "(t)here's so much strategy." (For the uninformed: You mash a "squidger" down on a "wink" to propel it either into the "pot" or to "squop" it onto an opponent's wink to temporarily disable it.) Dave said he plans to get Britain's Prince Philip, a winker, to suggest tiddlywinks as a demonstration "sport" at London's 2012 Summer Olympics.

Torino 2006 Paralympic Winter Games

25 February 2006

From 10 to19 March, two weeks after the end of the Olympic Winter Games, 535 athletes from an expected 39 countries will gather to participate in the Torino 2006 Paralympic Winter Games. Fifty-eight medal events will be contested in four sports, Alpine skiing, Ice Sledge Hockey, Nordic Skiing and Wheelchair Curling.