Prepping The Venues

Flags of competing nations flutter in the breeze outside the Torino 2006 Winter Olympic Games athletes village in Sestriere, Italy, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2006. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

A snowmaking machine blows snow across the course as people take a ski lift up the Sestriere Colle Giant Slalom course in Sestriere, Italy, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2006. The Alpine ski program at the Torino 2006 Winter Olympic Games gets underway on Sunday, Feb. 12 with the men's downhill.

Unidentified athletes walk down the ice on the Olympic bobsled and luge track in Cesana Pariol, northern Italy, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2006. The Torino 2006 Winter Olympics Games run Feb. 10-26, 2006.

Italian Alpine soldiers are silhouetted as they hold a hose and prepare to spray water onto the Sestriere Colle giant slalom course in Sestriere, Italy, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2006.

Workers hang the national flags of Slovakia, left, and Yugoslavia high up inside the Olympic short track and figure skating venue in Torino, Italy, Monday, Feb. 6, 2006.

Italian cheerleaders who will perform at the Torino 2006 Winter Olympics Games practice at the ice hockey venue in Torino, Italy, on Sunday, Feb. 5, 2006.

Olympic staff prepare the surface at the Olympic figure skating venue in Torino, Italy, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2006.

The first line of the three-level safety netting is put into place on a turn alongside the Torino 2006 Winter Olympic Games men's downhill course in Sestriere Borgata, Italy, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2006.

A worker hangs from a gantry as he erects a large video screen at the main ice hockey venue for the Torino 2006 Winter Olympic hockey competition in Torino, Italy, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2006.

A worker shaves the ice as workers prepare the Torino 2006 Winter Olympic Games bobsled, luge and skeleton course in Cesana Pariol, Italy, Friday, Feb. 3, 2006.

View of the Torino 2006 Winter Olympic Games freestyle skiing moguls course in Sauze d'Oulx Jouvenceaux, Italy, Friday, Feb. 3, 2006.

A worker paints at the Medal Plaza in Torino, Italy, Friday, Feb. 3, 2006. The stage seen in the background will be used for the presentation of Winter Olympic medals and also for music concerts during the Torino 2006 Winter Olympics.

A worker rests in the stands overlooking the halfpipe course, top left, at the Torino 2006 Winter Olympic Games snowboard venue in Bardonecchia, Italy, Friday, Feb. 3, 2006.

Workers clean snow from the run of the 140-meter ski jumping hill in Pragelato, northern Italy, in subzero temperatures, Friday, Feb. 3, 2006. Pragelato will host all Olympic ski jumping events.

An Italian soldier walks with his shovel on the tribune in the finish area for men's Alpine skiing during preparations for the Winter Olympics in the village of Sestriere, northern Italy, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2006.

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