Opening ceremony: The Olympic flame is lit - the 2006 Turin Games are underway and run until 26 February

Day one: Germany's Michael Greis wins the first gold medal of the games with a surprise victory in the men's 20km biathlon

Day two: France's Antoine Deneriaz wins skiing's blue riband event, the men's downhill, with a time of 1.48:80

Day three: The US dominate the women's snowboard half-pipe - Hannah Teter taking gold from team-mate Gretchen Bleiler

Day four: Defending champion Slyve Otto leads a German clean sweep of the women's luge medals

Day five: Australia's Dale Begg-Smith thrills the crowd with some spectacular jumps to win gold in the men's moguls

Day six: Britain's best day in Turin sees Shelley Rudman claim silver in the skeleton, while the men and women's curlers win

Day seven: Lindsey Jacobellis throws away gold in the snowboard cross when her show-boating goes horribly wrong

Day eight: Ole Einar Bjoerndalen's gold medal hopes are ended when Vincent Defrasne takes the 12.5km biathlon title

Day nine: Christian Zorzi crosses the line to win Italy's third gold of the games in the 4 x 10km cross-country relay

Day 10: Great Britain's women's curling team fail to reach the semi-finals after Canada's final-stone victory over Denmark

Day 11: Felix Gottwald storms to gold in the Nordic combined sprint after starting the cross-country a minute adrift

Day 12: The US team are stunned after they suffer a 4-3 defeat to Finland in the men's ice hockey quarter-finals

Day 13: China's Han Xiaopeng shocks the field in the men's aerials final - claiming gold from Dmitri Dashinski of Belarus

Day 14: Britain's men's curlers end the Games without a medal after losing the bronze medal match against the USA, 8-6

Day 15: Bode Miller fails to live up to his own hype and leaves medal-less despite competing in all five Alpine events

Day 16: Giorgio di Centa wins the 50km freestyle cross country as Italy end the Games with five gold medals

Closing ceremony: A carnival and numerous fireworks help bring the Games to a close in Turin's Stadio Olympico