Turin, Italy ? So that’s it. After two weeks, the Turin Olympics are over. And what a strange ride it was.

From the spectacular theatrics of the opening ceremonies to the spectacular downfall of the most-hyped U.S. athletes, there was plenty to see. You could cap it with a medal count, but why stop at gold, silver and bronze when there are so many other awards that went missing?

What about the best feud, the hardest stare and the biggest scandal? Who had the worst timing and the best excuse? Here’s asap’s list of the true best and worst moments of the games.

¢ Biggest flop: Tough one, but I’m going with the U.S. women’s hockey team. They had never lost to anyone other than Canada in international competition before dropping a shootout to Sweden in the semifinals.

¢ Best reaction: American skier Speedy Peterson’s Lambeau leap into the crowd after his first run of the aerials finals. Too bad he finished seventh. He didn’t react so well later to a spat with a friend. He was sent back to the United States after police broke up his street brawl.

¢ Best snow globe moment: The medals ceremony for the men’s Italian cross country team’s gold. Huge snowflakes, lit by spotlights and colored lighting, and thousands of Italian fans waving flags and screaming made for a spectacular scene at Piazza Costello. Straight out of a movie set.

¢ Worst crash: American alpine skier Lindsey Kildow cartwheeling down the downhill course like a rag doll. Amazingly, she wasn’t seriously injured and came back with two top-15 finishes.

¢ Best feud: American speedskaters Shani Davis and Chad Hedrick. Neither one likes each other much and it was evident in the jabs they traded at the news conference following the 1,500-meter long track race. Davis criticized Hedrick for failing to shake his hand after winning gold; Hedrick criticized Davis for skipping the team pursuit so he could focus on his individual events.

Some reporters called it the best news conference they had even been to.

¢ Worst timing: American snowboarder Lindsey Jacobellis, well on her way to gold, gave it away after crashing while trying a hot-dog move on the final jump of snowboarder cross. She wound up with silver after getting passed just before the finish. Ouch.

¢ Biggest scandal: The Austrian biathlon teams and their coach. The IOC and Italian police raided their accommodations in the mountains and found blood equipment and syringes. Coach Walter Mayer, banned from the Turin and Vancouver Games because of a doping scandal at Salt Lake City, left the country and ended up in an Austrian psychiatric hospital after crashing through police barricade.

¢ Saddest slip: Michelle Kwan was sidelined before the competition even began and several ice dancing pairs slammed into the ice. But the most disappointing fall was Sasha Cohen’s. After a dazzling short program left her in first place, the look of terror on her face as she took the ice again seemed to foretell her doom. Fortunately for her, she wasn’t the only one to slip. She managed to walk away with silver.

¢ Biggest surprises: American skiers Todd Ligety and Julia Mancuso winning gold medals. They entered the games overshadowed by bigger-name teammates and ended up with the biggest prizes. Nice.

¢ Best Wheaties box: The athletes weren’t just going for gold; they were going for endorsements. Despite some high-profile disappointments, there are plenty of Americans who came out on top — among them, Mancuso and Ligety, Davis and Hedrick, Apolo Anton Ohno and Shaun White.

But the warm-and-fuzzy award goes to Joey Cheek, the speedskater who said he would donate his $40,000 in winnings to Right to Play, a charity that helps children in areas ravaged by conflict. Other athletes, corporations and the U.S. Olympic Committee followed his lead. Maybe they’ll eat his Wheaties, too.