Germany's Michael Greis wins his third gold medal of the Games in the inaugural 15km mass-start biathlon Poland's Tomasz Sikora takes the silver, while long-time leader Ole Einar Bjorndalen misses three targets and finishes third Sweden's Anna Carin Olofsson cruises to gold from Kati Wilhelm and Uschi Disl in the women's 12.5km biathlon Canada's Clara Hughes takes the women's 5000m speed skating gold medal in a time of six minutes and 59.07 seconds In the men's slalom, home favourite Giorgio Rossa is one of a number of high profile names who crash out on the first run America's Bode Miller and Olympic combined champion Ted Ligety both straddle gates and are disqualified Britain's Alain Baxter makes it down unscathed in his second run of the men's slalom and finishes in a credible 16th Austria celebrates as Benjamin Raich takes slalom gold ahead of Reinfried Herbst, with Rainer Schoenfelder in bronze. Germany's four-man bobsleigh team, piloted by Andre Lange, celebrate after successfully defending their Olympic title Britain's John Eley survives several event-filled qualification heats to reach the 500m short track speed skating final Eley is fifth in the final which is dominated by America's Apolo Anton Ohno with Canada's Francois-Louis Tremblay second South Korea's Jin Sun-Yu celebrates after winning gold in the women's 1000m speed skating final The Czech Republic win bronze in the third place play-off in the men's ice hockey, beating Russia 3-0
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