Winter Olympics: Day six

The USA's Shaun White flies above the transition during the men's halfpipe qualifying round ...
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...and celebrates after winning the final
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Italy's Christian Oberstolz reacts after his final run in the luge double fails to place
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Members of the Switzerland 3 team crash during the first training heat
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Italy's Simone Bertazzo brakes heavily during the first training heat of the men's two-man bobsleigh
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Latvian competitors speed through in the luge doubles
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Alexander Resch and Patric Leitner of Germany round a bend en route to the bronze medal
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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
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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
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The sun rises from behind the mountains as the crowd gathers in the finish area before the women's downhill event at Whistler Creek
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Italy's Lucia Recchia competes during the women's downhill. She finished ninth with a time of 1:46.50
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Great Britain's Chemmy Alcott speeds past a gate during the downhill. She finished in 13th place with a time of 1:47:31
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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
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USA's Lindsey Vonn flies over the lip of a jump as she speeds down the mountain
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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
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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
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Britain's Kristan Bromley speeds down the track during a practice run in the men's skeleton
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Japan's Kazuhiro Koshi pushes off at the start during a men's skeleton training session
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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
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The Slovakian men's ice hockey team gathers at the net before a preliminary round game against Czech Republic
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French ice dancers Nathalie Pechalat and Fabian Bourzat perform during a training session ahead of the ice dance competition
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USA's men's figure skater Evan Lysacek
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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
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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
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Sami Jauhojaervi of Finland competes during the men's individual sprint
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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
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Gold medallist Shani Davis of the USA accelerates during the men's 1,000m
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Apolo Anton Ohno of the United States leads Liang Wenhao of China in the men's 1,000m short track
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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
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