Great Britain's men's curlers play European runners-up Switzerland, who have won both matches so far, in the first of two round robin matches they have to play on day seven of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver
It's not to be for David Murdoch's men as the Swiss win 4-3 but they will have their chance to climb the table on Friday against Denmark
It's the downhill leg of the women's super-combined on Whistler Creekside with an early lead of one minute, 24.16 seconds set by Lindsey Vonn of the USA, gold medal winner in Wednesday's donwhill
It is the third Olympics for Vonn, from Colorado, who will also contest the slalom, giant slalom and super-G, and is the first American woman to be a consecutive World Cup champion
British hopes in the competition rest with Chemmy Alcott, 13th in Wednesday's downhilll, who finishes the downhill leg of the super combined 2.9 seconds off the lead but with two slalom stages still to race
Khazakstan's Elena Khrustaleva chases leader Tora Berger of Norway in the women's 15km individual biathlon with Germany's Magdalena Neuner, winner of Tuesday's 10km pursuit, back in seventh
All of the competitors, including France's Marie Laure Brunet, are over the finishing line, but Berger hangs on to gold, Khrustaleva silver, and bronze goes to Darya Domracheva of Belarus
Norway, having taken a 8-0 hammering from Canada on Tuesday, do little better against the USA, losing 6-1 in a brutish encounter at Canada Hockey Place
Also on the rinks today, though with fewer scuffles, many of the women's individual ice-skating favourites - Miki Ando of Japan, Cheltzie Lee of Australia - practice ahead of next week's short and free skate programmes
Crowds gather in Whistler ahead of the afternoon's slalom portions of the women's super-combined skiing with Alcott down in 45.45 seconds on her first run and Vonn the 30th woman out of the gate
Vonn, unfortunately, proves fallible after all and catches her ski on a slalom pole, crashes and leaves the way open for her friend and rival, Germany's Maria Reisch, second in the downhill, to take the gold
Norway's Hege Bokko leads the field in a time of one minute, 17.43 seconds, in the women's 1000m speed skating at the Richmond Olympic Oval
Bokko must settle for 10th place in the end as home favourite Christine Nesbitt takes gold in 1:16.56, only two hundredths of a second ahead of Annette Gerritsen of the Netherlands
The women's snowboard halfpipe is won by Australia's Tora Bright. The 23-year-old takes a tumble on her opening run in the final but recovers to win gold with a near flawless second run
Norway's Emil Hegle Svendsen takes the men's 20km individual biathlon title. His team-mate Ole Einar Bjoerndalen ties for silver with Sergey Novikov of Belarus, 9.5 seconds back
In the women's skeleton, Britain's Amy Williams sets a new track record to lead at the halfway stage with two more runs to come late on Friday
Evan Lysacek becomes the first American to win the men's figure skating since Brian Boitano, 22 years ago, also in Canada at the 1988 Calgary Games
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