The main events of the day in photos from the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, Day 11, February 18: Russian Nikolai Olyunin won silver in the snowboard men's cross, Slovenian Tina Maze won the ladies' giant slalom, Norway's Emil Hegle Svendsen won gold in the men's mass-start biathlon, and the Dutch filled the podium in men's speed skating.
Winter Olympics, Day 11
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Austria's Hanno Douschan competes in the quarterfinals in the men's snowboard cross. (epa/Vassil Donev)
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Canada's Charles Hamelin falls in the eighth heat of the men's 500-meter short-track event. (epa/Barbara Walton)
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Park Seung-hi of South Korea in action during the women's 1000-meter heats of the short-track events. (epa/Barbara Walton)
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Eventual gold-medalist Austrian Anna Fenninger competes in the women's alpine-skiing giant slalom. (AFP/Olivier Morin)
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Course slippers clear fresh snow from the track before the second run of the women's alpine-skiing giant slalom event. (Reuters/Dominic Ebenbichler)
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Slovenia's Tina Maze reacts area after winning the women's alpine-skiing giant slalom event. (Reuters/Kai Pfaffenbach)
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Norway's Ole Einar Bjoerndalen competes in the men's biathlon 15-kilometer mass start. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)
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Norway's Emil Hegle Svendsen competes at the range in the third shoot in the men's biathlon 15-kilometer mass start. Svendsen won the gold medal. (AFP/Alberto Pizzoli)
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The Czech Republic's Ondrej Moravec celebrates after crossing the finish line for the bronze medal in the men's 15-kilometer mass-start biathlon. (Reuters/Carlos Barria)
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A spectator faces dark clouds next to empty seats in the bleachers before the trial round of the large-hill ski-jumping portion of the nordic combined individual Gundersen 10-kilometer event. (Reuters/Michael Dalder)
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South Korea's Cho Ha-ri (center) competes in the women's short-track 3000-meter relay final. The South Korean team won the gold. (AFP/Adrian Dennis)
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Second-placed team Canada's Valerie Maltais (left) and Marie-Eve Drolet laugh after the women's 3,000-meter short-track speed-skating relay final, won by South Korea. (Reuters/Lucy Nicholson)
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Silver-medalist Sven Kramer of the Netherlands in action during the men's 10,000-meter speed-skating, in which his compatriots Jorrit Bergsma and Bob de Jong won the gold and bronze medals. (epa/Hannibal Hanschke)
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Norway's Joergen Graabak in action during the nordic combined individual LH/10-kilometer ski jumping competition. Graabak won the gold medal. (epa/Valdrin Xhemaj)
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James Machon of Great Britain in action during the men's freestyle-skiing halfpipe qualification. (epa/Sergei Ilnitsky)