Ten years after its discovery at the Tevatron collider, we still know little
about the top quark. Its large mass suggests it may play a key role in the
mechanism of Electroweak Symmetry Breaking (EWSB), or open a window of
sensitivity to new physics related to EWSB and preferentially coupled to it. To
determine whether this is the case, precision measurements of top quark
properties are necessary. The high statistics samples being collected by the
Tevatron experiments during Run II start to incisively probe the top quark
sector. This report summarizes the experimental status of the top quark,
focusing in particular on the recent measurements from the Tevatron.Comment: 12 pages, 6 figures, 1 table. Talk presented at TOP 2006,
International Workshop on Top Quark Physics, Coimbra, Portugal, January
12-15, 2006. To appear in the proceeding