15 February 2006 (Wednesday)
- Football: 2005–06 UEFA Cup – Round of 32, First leg.
- Litex Lovech 0–2 Strasbourg
- Schalke 04 2–1 Espanyol
- Heerenveen 1–3 Steaua Bucharest
- Hertha Berlin 0–1 Rapid Bucharest
- FC Basel 1–0 AS Monaco
- Real Betis 2–0 AZ Alkmaar
- Rosenborg 0–2 Zenit St. Petersburg
- Artmedia Bratislava 0–1 Levski Sofia
- Bolton Wanderers 0–0 Marseille
- Lille 3–2 Shakhtar Donetsk
- Udinese 3–0 Lens
- Lokomotiv Moscow 0–1 Sevilla
- Club Brugge 1–2 Roma (UEFA.com)
- XX Winter Olympic Games, Turin, day five:
- Alpine skiing:
- Michaela Dorfmeister of Austria wins the women's downhill. Martina Schild of Switzerland and Anja Pärson of Sweden complete the podium. (CBC.ca)
- Nordic combined:
- High winds in the ski jumping hill force the jury to abandon the team competition midway through the second round. The teams will resume tomorrow. (NBC Olympics)
- Short track speed skating:
- Wang Meng wins the women's 500-m race, capturing the first gold medal in the Turin Games for China. Bulgaria's Evgenia Radanova takes the silver, while Canada's Anouk Leblanc-Boucher claims the bronze. (CBC.ca)
- Freestyle skiing:
- Transplanted Canadian skier Dale Begg-Smith wins Australia's first gold medal in men's moguls. (CBC.ca)
- Alpine skiing:
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