Winter Olympics: Day six

The USA's Shaun White flies above the transition during the men's halfpipe qualifying round ... Photograph: Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Adrian Dennis/guardian.co.uk ...and celebrates after winning the final Photograph: Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Adrian Dennis/guardian.co.uk Italy's Christian Oberstolz reacts after his final run in the luge double fails to place Photograph: Jim Young/Reuters Photograph: Jim Young/guardian.co.uk Members of the Switzerland 3 team crash during the first training heat Photograph: Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Mark Ralston/guardian.co.uk Italy's Simone Bertazzo brakes heavily during the first training heat of the men's two-man bobsleigh Photograph: Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Mark Ralston/guardian.co.uk Latvian competitors speed through in the luge doubles Photograph: Richard Heathcote/Getty Images Photograph: Richard Heathcote/guardian.co.uk Alexander Resch and Patric Leitner of Germany round a bend en route to the bronze medal Photograph: Matt Campbell/EPA Photograph: Matt Campbell/guardian.co.uk Great Britain's skip Eve Muirhead shouts instructions after she plays a stone. The GB women's team made a great start to the tournament, beating world champions China 5-4 in their opening round-robin encounter Photograph: Joe Giddens/Empics Sport Photograph: Joe Giddens/guardian.co.uk Canada supporters enjoy the sunshine on another unseasonably warm and sunny day near the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Flame. The weather in the host city is breaking records - in 114 years the area has not recorded so many warm midwinter days in a row. The record-breaking mild spell is set to continue throughout the Games, according to meteorologists Photograph: Srdjan Suki/EPA Photograph: SRDJAN SUKI/guardian.co.uk The sun rises from behind the mountains as the crowd gathers in the finish area before the women's downhill event at Whistler Creek Photograph: Olivier Morin/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Olivier Morin/guardian.co.uk Italy's Lucia Recchia competes during the women's downhill. She finished ninth with a time of 1:46.50 Photograph: Al Bello/Getty Images Photograph: Al Bello/guardian.co.uk Great Britain's Chemmy Alcott speeds past a gate during the downhill. She finished in 13th place with a time of 1:47:31 Photograph: Al Bello/Getty Images Photograph: Al Bello/guardian.co.uk Switzerland's Dominique Gisin crashes as she approaches the finish in the women's downhill. She hit her head on the ice as she tumbled and then landed by the side of the course, though thankfully she wasn't seriously injured and walked away unaided Photograph: Charlie Riedel/AP Photograph: Charlie Riedel/guardian.co.uk USA's Lindsey Vonn flies over the lip of a jump as she speeds down the mountain Photograph: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Emmanuel Dunand/guardian.co.uk Vonn celebrates after putting in a magnificent performance to cross the finishing line with a time of 1:44.19 to take the gold medal. It was a stunning display by the pre-race favourite who has been struggling with a shin injury before the Games and has hardly skied over the past few weeks Photograph: Gero Breloer/AP Photograph: Gero Breloer/guardian.co.uk Noelle Barahona of Chile disappears underneath a barrier at the finish line during the women's downhill. Maybe she was trying to hide her disappointment as she finished in 34th place Photograph: Clive Mason/Getty Images Photograph: Clive Mason/guardian.co.uk Britain's Kristan Bromley speeds down the track during a practice run in the men's skeleton Photograph: Pawel Kopczynski/Reuters Photograph: Pawel Kopczynski/guardian.co.uk Japan's Kazuhiro Koshi pushes off at the start during a men's skeleton training session Photograph: Michael Sohn/AP Photograph: Michael Sohn/guardian.co.uk Team Finland huddles around goaltender Miikka Kiprusoff before taking on Belarus. The team bonding appeared to work as the Finns recorded an easy 5-1 victory Photograph: Bruce Bennett/Getty Images Photograph: Bruce Bennett/guardian.co.uk The Slovakian men's ice hockey team gathers at the net before a preliminary round game against Czech Republic Photograph: Matt Slocum/AP Photograph: Matt Slocum/guardian.co.uk French ice dancers Nathalie Pechalat and Fabian Bourzat perform during a training session ahead of the ice dance competition Photograph: Yuri Kadobnov/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Yuri Kadobnov/guardian.co.uk USA's men's figure skater Evan Lysacek Photograph: Mark Baker/AP Photograph: Mark Baker/guardian.co.uk Finland's Kalle Lassila competes in the men's Nordic cross country individual sprint qualification. He finished in 19th position in the qualifying table and so made it into the semis, where he finished in 10th overall Photograph: Franck Fife/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Franck Fife/guardian.co.uk Russia's Nikita Kriukov, left, crosses the finish line inches ahead of team-mate Alexander Panzhinskiy to take gold in the men's individual sprint classic country competition Photograph: Patrick Seeger/EPA Photograph: Patrick Seeger/guardian.co.uk Sami Jauhojaervi of Finland competes during the men's individual sprint Photograph: Alexander Hassenstein/Bongarts/Getty Images Photograph: Alexander Hassenstein/guardian.co.uk Canada's Olivier Jean, Germany's Tyson Heung and China's Jialiang Han compete in the men's 5,000m short-track relay semi-final Photograph: Yuri Kadobnov/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Yuri Kadobnov/guardian.co.uk Gold medallist Shani Davis of the USA accelerates during the men's 1,000m Photograph: Kevin Frayer/AP Photograph: Kevin Frayer/guardian.co.uk Apolo Anton Ohno of the United States leads Liang Wenhao of China in the men's 1,000m short track Photograph: Alex Livesey/Getty Images Photograph: Alex Livesey/guardian.co.uk A spectator takes photos of the Olympic cauldron. The organisers have moved the chain-link fence closer to the Olympic cauldron and opened an eye-level gap to allow for unobstructed views and photographs. The changes, which were made last night, followed complaints about lack of public access to the cauldron Photograph: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images Photograph: Kevork Djansezian/guardian.co.uk