Sochi 2014: British joy and despair on day six – in pictures

James Woods, who won the World Cup last year, was hunting a medal in the ski slopestyle event, but he was nursing a hip injury going into the final Photograph: Ian MacNicol/Getty Images

Woods performed admirably under the circumstances, but was never likely to replicate the achievement of Jenny Jones, who claimed silver in the snowboard slopestyle earlier in the week Photograph: Mike Egerton/PA

Ultimately, Woods finished fifth scoring 86.6 Photograph: Ezra Shaw/Getty Images

Elise Christie is competing in two speed skating events at this year's Olympics – the 500m and the 1000m. She qualified for the final of the 500m, giving her a one in four chance of gold ... Photograph: David Davies/PA

But the final was a disastrous affair as she attempted to cut inside her rivals early in the race and instead skittled two of them, Seung-Hi Park of South Korea (left) and Arianna Fontana of Italy (right) Photograph: Quinn Rooney/Getty Images

Christie hit the padding hard, while China's Li Jianrou, who avoided the carnage, cruised to the gold medal. Christie got to her feet quicker than her other stricken rivals and crossed the finish-line in second place ... Photograph: Barbara Walton/EPA

But, somewhat inevitably, she was disqualifed for her part in the collision and denied a silver medal. Christie's preferred discipline, the 1000m, takes place next week Photograph: Craig Mercer/Craig Mercer/ActionPlus/Corbis

Great Britain's men's curling team faced the USA in the group stages. David Murdock, Scott Andrews, Greg Drummond and Michael Goodfellow (pictured) had already won three of their four matches going into this one Photograph: Julian Finney/Getty Images

Greg Drummond delivers a stone as the Brits take a stranglehold on the match Photograph: Julian Finney/Getty Images

Skip David Murdoch leads them to a 5-3 win which puts them joint-second in the group stages Photograph: Robert F. Bukaty/AP

Britain's women's team were also in action in the round robin stages and were looking to bounce back after losing to Canada Photograph: Ints Kalnins/Reuters

They faced a China team who were above them in the table. Here, Great Britain's Eve Muirhead (centre, wearing white) polishes the ice as a stone arrives Photograph: David Davies/PA

Muirhead missed a critical shot in the defeat to Canada, but she compensated with the winning stone in a tense game against China ... Photograph: Ints Kalnins/Reuters

Britain won 8-7, their second win in four matches Photograph: Julian Finney/Getty Images

Lizzy Yarnold made a great start to the women's skeleton, setting a course record with her first run Photograph: Adam Pretty/Getty Images

But her compatriot, Shelley Rudman, struggled to find the same form Photograph: APA- PictureDesk GmbH/REX/APA- PictureDesk GmbH/REX

Yarnold was top of the standings after two runs and is primed to win gold tomorrow Photograph: Andrew Milligan/PA

Rudman is languishing in 11th Photograph: Natacha Pisarenko/AP