Italian sports journalist Marco Mazzocchi, right, lights his torch from an unidentified athlete, on the Spanish Steps in the opening stages of the Turin 2006 Winter Olympic Flame tour of Italy, in Rome, Thursday Dec. 8, 2005. The winter Olympics will start in Turin on February 10, 2006. The flame is planned to cover 11,300 kilometers (7,022 miles) throughout Italy involving 10,000 torchbearers, gondolas, a Ferrari sports car and a cavalry regiment before arriving in Turin for the opening ceremony on Feb. 10th.(AP Photo/Corrado Giambalvo)