Britain's Shelley Rudman puts herself in contention for a medal after a fantastic second run in the women's skeleton Rudman is delighted to collect silver after Switzerland's Maya Pedersen bags gold with a scorching final run Germany's speed skaters beat Canada to take gold in the women's team pursuit Jordi Font leads the men's snowboard cross after his first run and makes the last stage after a dramatic semi-final Snowboard cross' Olympic debut proves a great success as the heat stages provide some spectacular racing American Seth Westcott inches out Slovakia's Radoslav Zidek to take gold in a breathtaking finale to the inaugural event Rhona Martin's GB team bounce back from defeat to Sweden on day five with a solid 10-4 win against Russia Semi-final prospects also look promising for Britain's men after skip David Murdoch oversees a 7-6 win against Germany Florence Baverel-Robert wins gold in the women's biathlon 7.5 km sprint with a time of 22 mins 31.4 secs and no misses Estonia's Kristina Smigun adds to her 15km cross-country gold, taking first place in the women's 10km classical The Austrian team claim gold in the Nordic combined after beating Germany into second place in the 4 x 5km race In the preliminary rounds of the men's ice hockey, Russia trounce Sweden 5-0 in the day's big game The day ends with Russian skater Yevgeny Plushenko taking gold after scoring 167.67 points in the men's free programme
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