Word: torino
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...hours before the most important race of his career, U.S. speed skater Chad Hedrick was a calamity. Thirteen years ago to this very day, his grandmother, Geraldine Hedrick-"my buddy"-died of brain cancer. The combination of grief, cabin fever- he arrived in Torino twelve days before the Games ("rolling around in bed takes it toll on you")-and the pressure of his first Olympic race drove Hedrick to tears. And into the stands, where friends and family tried to calm his down. "I kind of felt like a sissy," says Hedrick...
...Some calamity. Some sissy. Hedrick, the Texan known as "The Exception" for his twang and hard-charging lifestyle in an often stodgy Euro-centric sport, won America's first gold medal in Torino on Saturday, finishing the 5,000-meters in 6:14:68, just two-hundredths behind the Olympic record. "She gave me a little extra push today," Hedrick, a Houston native, says of Geraldine. "I could just feel it." One down, four to go: Hedrick, who is chasing Eric Heiden's record five speed skating gold medals, will next race on Wednesday, in the Team Pursuit...
...theme for the games is "Passion Lives Here," so signs and logos for the game are dominated by red. The opening ceremony - held at 8 p.m. Torino time, and therefore six hours before it was shown on NBC on the East Coast ? used 122 makeup artists, 70 flame-thrower nozzles, 4,400 pounds of fireworks and 6,500 costumes. It was very Italian ? loud and somewhat chaotic, especially by comparison to the relatively sober 2002 winter games in Salt Lake, where a solemn ceremony began with the display of a tattered American flag recovered from the wreckage of the World...
...ceremony kicked off 17 days of competition, running Feb. 10 through 26, in 15 sports. About 2,500 athletes from a record 80 countries will compete in Torino, which is the headquarters for Fiat and is sometimes called the Detroit of Italy. From the air, the city looks almost competely brown, although the surrounding Alps make for picturesque snapshots and television coverage. Torino, best known for the mysterious linen shroud that remains locked away in a cathedral here, has turned into one big street festival and in the afternoon, police motorcades with sirens blazing accompanied the arriving torch runners. After...
...Olympic Stadium had an "audience kit" containing props to be used to create card-trick-like effects on television. The kit included the white ponchos, which most people put on before the ceremony began, as much for warmth as for team spirit; a red seat cushion with a Torino 2006 logo in white; and a red plastic flash light, to be wielded like a cigarette lighter at a rock concert. The kit itself was even a prop ? a metallic bag that could be held up to create a blinding effect. In case any audience member didn't know when...