Editing 2006 Winter Olympics (section)

==Sports==
{{Main|Events at the 2006 Winter Olympics}}
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 four editions of the Winter Games, no new sport/discipline was introduced. Eight new events were added in disciplines already on the Olympic program, including mass start in biathlon, team sprint in cross-country skiing, boarder cross in snowboard, and team pursuit in speed skating, all with both men's and women's competitions.<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 sports and disciplines that were contested at the 2006 Games:
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# '''Biathlon'''
#* {{GamesSport|Biathlon|Events=10}}
# '''Bobsleigh'''
#* {{GamesSport|Bobsleigh|Events=3}}
#* {{GamesSport|Skeleton|Events=2}}
# '''Curling'''
#* {{GamesSport|Curling|Events=2}}
# '''Ice hockey'''
#* {{GamesSport|Ice hockey|Events=2}}
# '''Luge'''
#* {{GamesSport|Luge|Events=3}}
# '''Skating'''
#* {{GamesSport|Figure skating|Events=4}}
#* {{GamesSport|Short track speed skating|Events=8}}
#* {{GamesSport|Speed skating|Events=12}}
# '''Skiing'''
#* {{GamesSport|Alpine skiing|Events=10}}
#* {{GamesSport|Cross-country skiing|Events=12}}
#* {{GamesSport|Freestyle skiing|Events=4}}
#* {{GamesSport|Nordic combined|Events=3}}
#* {{GamesSport|Ski jumping|Events=3}}
#* {{GamesSport|Snowboarding|Events=6}}
{{colend}}
''Numbers in parentheses indicate the number of medal events contested in each separate discipline.''