Forget the TV replay. Follow the opening ceremony of Torino 2006 with the Ceremony Media Guide (4.4 meg PDF), which is basically a 71-page storyboard of the opening ceremony issued to the media before the start of proceedings.

www.gazzetta.it, the website of La Gazzetta dello Sport (in Italian of course) seems like a good reference point for the next couple of weeks. The Sydney Morning Herald has a correspondent on the ground (snow? ice?) in Torino running a blog called, what else but Piste Take. And on that note, I look forward with interest to The Guardian's coverage of the Games.

On the other hand, there's the return of NBCOlympics.com. Also returning is the all-new official 2006 US team beret.