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The 2006 Winter Olympic Games on the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ
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³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Television coverage summary
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Late morning ... Downhills and Super G
Lunchtime/Late afternoon ... Snowboard and Freestyle Skiing
Afternoon (2.30 – 4.00pm) ... Curling
Late Afternoon/Early evening ... Slalom skiing/ Luge/ Bobsleigh/ Skeleton/ Ski-jumping
Peaktime evening ... Figure Skating
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³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ TWO
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Friday 10 February
6.00-6.45pm Olympic Countdown
6.45-10.00pm Opening Ceremony
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Saturday 11 February
5.30-7.00pm
8.15-9.30pm
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Sunday 12 February
10.45am-12.15pm
12.45-2.40pm
5.00-9.05pm
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Monday 13 February
12.30-4.00pm
8.30-10.30pm
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Tuesday 14 February
2.00-7.00pm
9.00-10.30pm
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Wednesday 15 February
10.45am-12.15pm
2.00-5.30pm
7.30-9.00pm
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Thursday 16 February
12.30-4.00pm
5.15-6.15pm
9.00-10.30pm
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Friday 17 February
12.30-4.00pm
5.30-7.30pm
8.30-9.30pm
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Saturday 18 February
9.45-11.15am
4.30-9.30pm Ìý
Sunday 19 February
10.45am-12.15pm
2.30-7.25pm
8.30-10.00pm Ìý
Monday 20 February
11.00am-1.00pm
2.00-4.00pm
5.30-7.00pm
8.00-10.30pm Ìý
Tuesday 21 February
5.00-7.00pm
9.00-10.30pm Ìý
Wednesday 22 February
2.00-7.00pm
7.30-9.00pm
23.20pm-midnight Ìý
Thursday 23 February
1.00-3.00pm
4.30/5.15-7.30pm
8.30-10.30pm Ìý
Friday 24 February
11.30-3.00pm
4.30/5.30-8.00pm
11.20pm-midnight Ìý
Saturday 25 February
1.10-1.40pm ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ ONE Grandstand
1.45-3.00pm
5.15-10.00pm
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Sunday 26 February
12.50-4.45pm
6.45-10.00pm Closing Ceremony
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Winter Olympics Programming
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** All transmission details are subject to change**
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Olympic Ski Sunday - The Road To Turin
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ TWO, Sunday Grandstand
Four-part series beginning Sunday 8 January
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In the build up to Turin, Grandstand's Olympic Ski Sunday will not just be on the downhill ski slopes of Europe - but will also take a look at all other 14 Winter Olympic sports.
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³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Sport's Winter Olympic team have been out and about with Team GB's ones-to-watch.
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Olympic medallist Graham Bell spends New Year with the ski-jumpers; Steve Cram ventures to Scandinavia to discover the strength and stamina of cross-country skiers; and Clare Balding takes a close look at the British bobsleigh and skeleton teams.
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Viewers get a taste of the excitement of short track speed skating in Holland; an insight into the biathlon in Slovakia; and can see Team GB's Luge hope, Mark Hatton, in action in Sestriere, Turin.
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On the ice Steve Bunce takes us through the history of the fastest team sport in the world, ice hockey, while we catch up with Britain's ice dance brother and sister team of John and Sinead Kerr.
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The programme also finds out if the curling team are confident of retaining the gold medal they won four years ago.
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The series kicks off with Clare Balding taking a trip to Turin to see how the city is looking ahead of the Games.
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Xchange
C³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ, Wednesday 11 January
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Colin Jackson, ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Sport's roving reporter at the Winter Olympics, will be taking a look at who will be Team GB's ones-to-watch on the slopes and the half-pipe, the ice rink and the luge.
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Saturday Kitchen
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ ONE, Saturday 4 February
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In the run-up to the Winter Olympics, Antony Worrall Thompson will get Saturday Kitchen viewers in the mood with a traditional winter dish from the Piedmote region of Italy, Bagna Cauda - a creamy garlic and fondue dip, served with vegetables and bread.
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Blue Peter
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ ONE, Friday 10 February
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In a Blue Peter Special looking forward to the Winter Olympics, Zoe and Gethin travel to the Alps to try their hand at some winter sports and profile some Team GB hopefuls. How will Gethin do when he tries the famous Cresta Run?
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Viewers can meet the Men's Curling team; Britain's Number One Downhill Racer Finlay Mickel; Sinead and John Kerr, Team GB's Figure Skating pair; Kristan Bromley, World Cup and European Champion 2004 looking to build on Alex Coomber's bronze in Salt Lake City in the Skeleton; World Silver Medallist Bobsleigh Champions Nicola Miniechello and Jackie Davies; and Lesley Mckenna and Zoe Gillings, Team GB's snowboarding ones-to-watch.
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Sportsround
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ ONE, Saturdays 11, 18 and 25 February
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Sportsround will be reporting on all of the action from the Winter Olympics, including reporting live from Sestriere.
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Ready Steady Cook
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ TWO, Monday 13 February
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Ainsley Harriott will be testing the culinary skills of brother and sister figure-skating pair, John and Sinead Kerr. In Turin, John and Sinead will be hoping to follow in the footsteps of Britain's most successful-ever skating pair, Torvill and Dean.
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Working Lunch
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ TWO, Monday 13 to Friday 17 February
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Working Lunch will be looking at the business of the Games: how the competitors balance their day jobs with training, getting sponsorship together, and profiling the people who manufacture and develop winter sport equipment.
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The Culture Show
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ TWO, Thursday 16 February
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Top Gear
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ TWO, Sunday 19 February Ìý
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