Russia At The 2006 Winter Olympics
Russia participated at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. It sent a total of 190 athletes to participate in all 15 of the Winter Olympic sports. Russia was a key part of the Soviet Union when it won the highest number of gold medals for the 1956, 1960, 1964, 1972, 1976, 1980 and 1988 Winter Olympics. In the 1994 Winter Olympics, Russia topped the medal tables by itself.
Dmitry Dorofeev, a speed skater, served as flag bearer at the Opening Ceremonies.
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—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“One aged man—one man—can’t keep a house,
A farm, a countryside, or if he can,
It’s thus he does it of a winter night.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)