America's Nate Holland jumps during practice ahead of the men's snowboarding cross qualifying at Cypress Mountain. Some fans have been told to stay away as heavy rain has made part of the spectator area unsafe
Shelley Rudman - Great Britain's sole medallist in Turin four years ago - checks out the skeleton track ahead of her first run on Thursday
Kristin Stoermer Steira of Norway begins the Women's 10km cross country race though the lead soon becomes a battle between Kristina Smigun-Vaehi of Estonia and Charlotte Kalla of Sweden
And it's Kalla, the 22-year-old from Tarendo, that celebrates taking the gold medal in a time of 24:58.4, only 6.6 seconds ahead of Smigun-Vaehi
Patrik Jaerbyn is the first down the 3km Dave Murray course in the men's downhill and the 40-year-old Swede gives it everything, competing in a field without a previous Olympic champion
Didier Cuche of Switzerland is the world champion and Bode Miller of the USA may present his biggest threat, crossing the line in 1:54.40 but Norway's Aksel Lund Svindal shaves 0.02 seconds off his time
While everyone watches for the favourites and local boys, Didier Defago of Switzerland ghosts in to the lead by 0.07 seconds, with Cuche in sixth and the Canadians out of the medals
Defago, finishing in the top 10 on two of the training runs but skiing without medal consideration for many people, takes gold, with Svindal getting silver and Miller bronze, Edward Drake of the UK finishes 38th
Training begins for the women's biathlon ahead of Tuesday's 10km pursuit with Germany's Andrea Henkel starting in 27th, 1:20 behind Russia's Anastazia Kuzmina in the four-lap, four-shoot (two standing, two prone) event
Training is also underway for the men's double luge on Thursday with Italy desperate to beat Germany, gold and silver medal winners, with Italy's Armin Zoggeler third, in the men's singles on Sunday
The men's snowboard cross qualification gets underway on Cypress Mountain with France's Xavier de le Rue through safely while Australia's Alex Pullin and Graham Watanabe of the USA battle for the quickest time
The figure skating practices are popular with the crowds as the athletes prepare for some of the most exacting manoeuvres in sport
The Swiss bag their second gold medal of the day after Defago when Dario Cologna wins the men's 15km cross country on a course he claims is "too easy" with Italy's Pietro Piller Cottrer second
America's Seth Wescott pips Canada's Mike Robertson to take gold in a tense men's snowboard cross final
GB pair Stacey Kemp and David King in action during the figure skating pairs free skating
Mo Tae-Bum of South Korea creates history by becoming the country's first gold medal winner in the men's 500m speed skating
Chinese pair Xue Shen and Hongbo Zhao celebrate winning the figure skating pairs free skating after coming out of retirement for the 2010 Games
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