The week in sport – in pictures

Sydney, Australia … where competitive surf life-saver crews are the ones who need looking after Photograph: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images

Ottawa Senators' Peter Regin gets a face full of the boards during the first period of an NHL hockey game in Ottawa Photograph: Blair Gable/Reuters

Black Caviar licks her lips before her exhibition gallop in between races at Caulfield Racecourse in Melbourne Photograph: Vince Caligiuri/Getty Images

A stuntman jumps with his snow scooter during the Rally Sweden - part of the FIA World Rally Championship Photograph: Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images

Lewis Hamilton drives his Mercedes during testing at Circuito de Jerez in Spain. Looks like he's actually keeping it on the track, for a change Photograph: Paul Gilham/Getty Images

An England player wears a furry mascot's head as his side celebrate victory in the international sevens tournament in Wellington, New Zealand. Can you guess who it is yet? No, nor could we … though an unnamed Guardian employee proudly supposed it was 'Danny Care Bear' Photograph: Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images

Ice skaters perform during a launch ceremony for a countdown clock (yes, really) ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi Photograph: Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters

Italy's Christian Oberstolz and Patrick Gruber compete at the Luge World Championship in Whistler Photograph: Andy Clark/Reuters

It seems hard to imagine that Italy's Christof Innerhofer actually reached the finish line in Sochi. Good job it was only practice Photograph: Olivier Morin/AFP/Getty Images

Schoolboy Deon Lechleitner kicks an Australian Rules football as members of the Indigenous All Stars visit Yuendumu School in the Australian outback Photograph: Scott Barbour/Getty Images

The Strawberry pub in Newcastle has gone all continental following news that Alan Pardew has made eight new signings from French Ligue 1 clubs Photograph: Paul Thomas/Getty Images

Bernhard Gruber of Austria looks knackered, to say the least, after winning the 10km race of the FIS Nordic Combined World Cup in Sochi Photograph: Anatoly Maltsev/EPA

Competitors ride on the beach during the eighth edition of the Touquet Enduropal motorcycling race in northern France Photograph: Denis Charlet/AFP/Getty Images