The Torino 2006 is nearing its end and many media websites have started to do their own summing up. As a part of the huge media corps, AP got their international journalist to summarize their impression in a blog and it makes some interesting reading.
"Turin has been ripped by foreign journalists for being indifferent at best (and antagonistic at worst) toward the games, but you'd never
believe it when you see a man holding his 4-year-old daughter and staring with wonder into the sky, or a quiet teenager speedily setting up his tripod and camera in the middle of the street to take long-exposure photographs of the games' symbol." More here