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Winter Olympics: Day six

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The USA's Shaun White flies above the transition during the men's halfpipe qualifying round ...
Photograph: Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images
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...and celebrates after winning the final
Photograph: Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images
winterolympics: Italy's Oberstolz and Grube men's doubles luge
Italy's Christian Oberstolz reacts after his final run in the luge double fails to place
Photograph: Jim Young/Reuters
winterolympics: Members of the Switzerland 3 team crash in the bobsleigh
Members of the Switzerland 3 team crash during the first training heat
Photograph: Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images
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Italy's Simone Bertazzo brakes heavily during the first training heat of the men's two-man bobsleigh
Photograph: Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images
winterolympics: Latvian competitors speed through in the Luge Doubles
Latvian competitors speed through in the luge doubles
Photograph: Richard Heathcote/Getty Images
winterolympics: Men's doubles Luge
Alexander Resch and Patric Leitner of Germany round a bend en route to the bronze medal
Photograph: Matt Campbell/EPA
Winter Olympics day 6: Great Britain's skip Eve Muirhead shouts as she plays a stone down the ice.
Great Britain's skip Eve Muirhead shouts instructions after she plays a stone. The GB women's team made a great start to the tournament, beating world champions China 5-4 in their opening round-robin encounter
Photograph: Joe Giddens/Empics Sport
Winter Olympics day 6: Canada supporters enjoy the sunshine on another unseasonably sunny day
Canada supporters enjoy the sunshine on another unseasonably warm and sunny day near the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Flame. The weather in the host city is breaking records - in 114 years the area has not recorded so many warm midwinter days in a row. The record-breaking mild spell is set to continue throughout the Games, according to meteorologists
Photograph: Srdjan Suki/EPA
Winter Olympics day 6: Crowds gather before the Women's Downhill event at Whistler Creek
The sun rises from behind the mountains as the crowd gathers in the finish area before the women's downhill event at Whistler Creek
Photograph: Olivier Morin/AFP/Getty Images
Winter Olympics day 6: Alpine Skiing Ladies Downhill - Day 6
Italy's Lucia Recchia competes during the women's downhill. She finished ninth with a time of 1:46.50
Photograph: Al Bello/Getty Images
Winter Olympics day 6: Great Britain's Chemmy Alcott speeds past a gate
Great Britain's Chemmy Alcott speeds past a gate during the downhill. She finished in 13th place with a time of 1:47:31
Photograph: Al Bello/Getty Images
Winter Olympics day 6: Switzerland's Dominique Gisin crashes in the women's downhill
Switzerland's Dominique Gisin crashes as she approaches the finish in the women's downhill. She hit her head on the ice as she tumbled and then landed by the side of the course, though thankfully she wasn't seriously injured and walked away unaided
Photograph: Charlie Riedel/AP
Winter Olympics day 6: Lindsey Vonn flies over the lip of a jump
USA's Lindsey Vonn flies over the lip of a jump as she speeds down the mountain
Photograph: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images
Winter Olympics day 6: Lindsey Vonn crosses the finishing line to take the gold medal
Vonn celebrates after putting in a magnificent performance to cross the finishing line with a time of 1:44.19 to take the gold medal. It was a stunning display by the pre-race favourite who has been struggling with a shin injury before the Games and has hardly skied over the past few weeks
Photograph: Gero Breloer/AP
Winter Olympics day 6: Noelle Barahona of Chile disappears underneath a barrier
Noelle Barahona of Chile disappears underneath a barrier at the finish line during the women's downhill. Maybe she was trying to hide her disappointment as she finished in 34th place
Photograph: Clive Mason/Getty Images
Winter Olympics day 6: Britain's Kristan Bromley during a practice run in the men's skeleton
Britain's Kristan Bromley speeds down the track during a practice run in the men's skeleton
Photograph: Pawel Kopczynski/Reuters
Winter Olympics day 6: Japan's Kazuhiro Koshi during a men's skeleton training session
Japan's Kazuhiro Koshi pushes off at the start during a men's skeleton training session
Photograph: Michael Sohn/AP
Winter Olympics day 6: Team Finland huddle around goalie Miikka Kiprusoff before taking on Belarus
Team Finland huddles around goaltender Miikka Kiprusoff before taking on Belarus. The team bonding appeared to work as the Finns recorded an easy 5-1 victory
Photograph: Bruce Bennett/Getty Images
winterolympics: The Slovakia men's ice hockey team
The Slovakian men's ice hockey team gathers at the net before a preliminary round game against Czech Republic
Photograph: Matt Slocum/AP
Winter Olympics day 6: Nathalie Pechalat and Fabian Bourzat perform during a training session
French ice dancers Nathalie Pechalat and Fabian Bourzat perform during a training session ahead of the ice dance competition
Photograph: Yuri Kadobnov/AFP/Getty Images
winterolympics: USA's men's figure skater Evan Lysacek
USA's men's figure skater Evan Lysacek
Photograph: Mark Baker/AP
Winter Olympics day 6: Kalle Lassila competes in the men's Nordic Cross Country individual sprint
Finland's Kalle Lassila competes in the men's Nordic cross country individual sprint qualification. He finished in 19th position in the qualifying table and so made it into the semis, where he finished in 10th overall
Photograph: Franck Fife/AFP/Getty Images
Winter Olympics day 6: Nikita Kriukov takes gold ahead of team-mate Alexander Panzhinskiy
Russia's Nikita Kriukov, left, crosses the finish line inches ahead of team-mate Alexander Panzhinskiy to take gold in the men's individual sprint classic country competition
Photograph: Patrick Seeger/EPA
winterolympics: Sami Jauhojaervi of Finland competes during the Men's Individual Sprint
Sami Jauhojaervi of Finland competes during the men's individual sprint
Photograph: Alexander Hassenstein/Bongarts/Getty Images
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Canada's Olivier Jean, Germany's Tyson Heung and China's Jialiang Han compete in the men's 5,000m short-track relay semi-final
Photograph: Yuri Kadobnov/AFP/Getty Images
winterolympics: Shani Davis skates during the men's 1000 meters race
Gold medallist Shani Davis of the USA accelerates during the men's 1,000m
Photograph: Kevin Frayer/AP
winterolympics: men's 1000m Short Track
Apolo Anton Ohno of the United States leads Liang Wenhao of China in the men's 1,000m short track
Photograph: Alex Livesey/Getty Images
Winter Olympics day 6: Spectators take photos of the Olympic cauldron
A spectator takes photos of the Olympic cauldron. The organisers have moved the chain-link fence closer to the Olympic cauldron and opened an eye-level gap to allow for unobstructed views and photographs. The changes, which were made last night, followed complaints about lack of public access to the cauldron
Photograph: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images
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