Great Britain's women curlers, looking to repeat the gold medal success of Rhona Martin and Co in 2002, kick off their campaign against world champions China, who fight back to take the match into a deciding end
But in tight final end 19-year-old British captain Eve Muirhead holds her nerve and delivers a perfect last stone to take the match 5-4
Italy's Sebastian Colloredo soars in practice for the men's individual large hill ski jump. Qualifying is on Friday, the final is on Saturday, normal hill champion Simon Ammann will be favourite
Marit Bjoergen of Norway, bronze medallist in the women's 10km freestyle cross-country, qualifies fastest in the individual sprint and goes on to win gold
Britain's Chemmy Alcott manages to get down a brutal women's downhill course, despite falling after the finish. She ends up 13th, but she has better events to come
Switzerland's Dominique Gisin is one of many competitors to come a cropper at Whistler Creekside, with the course said to be more difficult than the men's
Julia Mancuso of the United States, gold medallist in the giant slalom in 2006, takes the early lead in the women's downhill - but compatriot and favourite Lindsey Vonn is still to ski
Vonn, who came into the Winter Olympics carrying an injury, shows no fear from start to finish, taking more than half a second out of Mancuso's time to grab gold medal position
Anja Paerson of Sweden is going great guns before misjudging a jump and travelling fully 60m before crashing and sliding over the finish line on her front. Her participation in Thursday's super combined is now in doubt
Vonn's time proves unbeatable and she takes her first Olympic gold medal with Mancuso second and Austria's Elisabeth Goergl claiming the bronze
Mancuso and Vonn celebrate after securing the first American one-two in an Olympic Alpine race for 26 years
French duo Isabelle Delobel and Olivier Schoenefelder practice their routine ahead of the ice dance competition at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver
Russia's Nikita Kriukov (left) edges out compatriot Alexander Panzhinskiy to win the men's classic sprint cross country final by the narrowest of margins
Shani Davis becomes the first man to defend the Olympic 1,000m short track speed skating title when the American edges out South Korea's Tae-Bum Mo by 0.18 seconds
Britain's Sarah Lindsay (right) is disqualified from the women's 500m short track speed skating following a collision with Canada's Jessica Gregg in her heat
American Shaun White dominates the men's half-pipe, throwing in his trademark double McTwist 1260 on his way to defending the title he won in Turin four years ago
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