BBC TWO - Winter/Spring highlights 2006
Sport
The Winter
Olympics - Turin 2006
Featuring some of the world's most dangerous, extreme and
exciting sports, BBC Sport brings live coverage of the 2006
Winter Olympics from Turin, Italy.
The Winter Olympics feature events such as the skeleton, the
bobsleigh and snowboarding, as well as traditional winter sports
such as ice skating, skiing and curling.
BBC Sport covers the games through tri-media and, for the first
time, has a studio at the event with snow-clad mountain
backdrops.
There is live daily coverage of the Games throughout,
as well as an evening highlights programme.
Digital viewers will
also be able to choose extra events to watch via the interactive
Red button.
All coverage of the Winter Olympics will be shown on BBC TWO
and other programmes, such as Top Gear, will also feature Winter
Olympics specials.
The three core presenters are the all-women team of Sue Barker,
Hazel Irvine and Clare Balding.
Steve Cram and Colin Jackson report and the commentary team includes former Team GB
Olympians Graham Bell and Robin Cousins.
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The World Cup Story
For the first time ever, the
BBC presents the story of 76
years of World Cup football.
In
anticipation of this year's
World Cup, the world's biggest
sporting event is explored in a
series of documentaries
featuring unique and stunning
archive footage of World Cup
films covering 70 years.
The
documentaries combine
historic footage featuring
interviews with World Cup
greats such as Pele, Maradona,
Cruyff and Zidane.
The men
who made history tell of
their greatest triumphs and
darkest tragedies.
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