Dawn over Vancouver harbour and the Olympic rings welcome visitors to the city for a long middle weekend of the Winter Games, beginning with women's curling and the men's super-G downhill skiing
Matti Hautamaeki of Finland sets a distance of 137.5 metres in the men's individual large hill ski jumping qualifying on Friday morning, matched by Czech Antonin Hajek and German Andreas Wank
The qualification round sees Japan's Taku Takeuchi and Shohei Tochimoto through easily but compatriot Noriaki Kasai absolutely obliterates the lead with a jump of 142.5m, and Daiki Ito follows with 139.5m
The Canadians, however, are not all so lucky with Eric Mitchell, Trevor Morrice, and Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes all out and Stefan Read at the nervous end of qualifiers at Whistler Olympic Park
Inside the Vancouver Olympic Centre, Great Britain and skip Eve Muirhead keep up their good form by beating Germany 7-4, having already seen off gold medal favourites China and thrashed Russia 10-3 but lost to Sweden
Though on the same slope as the men's downhill the men's super-G is a new course to the skiers, made up of 44 gates, attempted without any prior training runs and sees many fail to finish, including Italy's Peter Fill
As expected, downhill bronze medallist Bode Miller of the USA sets a time to beat of one minute, 30.62 seconds and, as on Monday, downhill silver medallist Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway does just that in 1:30.34
The most spectacular of crashes and injuries occurs as Sweden's Patrik Jaerbyn, who has broken both legs in previous competitions, catches his ski in a gate pole and is taken to hospital, bloody and dazed
Out of 62, 19 do not finish a course that combines the downhill's speed with slalom's technique, but Briton Edward Drake finishes 32nd, with Svindal taking gold, Miller silver and fellow-American Andrew Weibrecht bronze
Sweden climb top of Group C when goals from Daniel Sedin, Johan Franzen and two from Daniel Alfredsson give them a 4-2 win against bottom-placed Belarus
Norway's Marit Bjoergen wins the women's 15km pursuit cross-country ski in a time of 38 minutes, 58.1 seconds, from Anna Haag of Sweden, with Justyna Kowalczyk third, Norway's ninth medal, and fourth gold, of the Games
British fans gather at the Whistler Sliding Centre to watch GB's Amy Williams go for gold in the women's skeleton
And it is sheer joy for Williams who records two fine runs to take Britain's first gold of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics and first solo Winter Olympics gold medal for 30 years
While in the men's skeleton Jon Montgomery wins Canada's second gold of the Olympic Games much to the delight of the home crowd
At the Pacific Coliseum, GB duo John Kerr and Sinead Kerr get their figure skating campaign underway and are ranked eighth after the initial compulsory dance
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