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
![Austria's Hanno Douschan competes in the quarterfinals in the men's snowboard cross. (epa/Vassil Donev)](https://gdb.rferl.org/6a324a24-0817-4d08-b50b-4844ca6dfbb8_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Austria's Hanno Douschan competes in the quarterfinals in the men's snowboard cross. (epa/Vassil Donev)
![Canada's Charles Hamelin falls in the eighth heat of the men's 500-meter short-track event. (epa/Barbara Walton)](https://gdb.rferl.org/cf7a95cf-c10d-4249-a836-da3a02a66efa_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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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)
![Park Seung-hi of South Korea in action during the women's 1000-meter heats of the short-track events. (epa/Barbara Walton)](https://gdb.rferl.org/9e0e953c-0ee8-4a7a-a47c-a222db791ab6_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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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)
![Eventual gold-medalist Austrian Anna Fenninger competes in the women's alpine-skiing giant slalom. (AFP/Olivier Morin)](https://gdb.rferl.org/6605321b-be56-419e-8227-c9d15b8a9ac0_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Eventual gold-medalist Austrian Anna Fenninger competes in the women's alpine-skiing giant slalom. (AFP/Olivier Morin)
![Course slippers clear fresh snow from the track before the second run of the women's alpine-skiing giant slalom event. (Reuters/Dominic Ebenbichler)](https://gdb.rferl.org/f5784ee8-553d-4a93-8873-5cb179abf9a5_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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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)
![Slovenia's Tina Maze reacts area after winning the women's alpine-skiing giant slalom event. (Reuters/Kai Pfaffenbach)](https://gdb.rferl.org/092af2a9-3696-4eb8-9251-33e6188886bc_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Slovenia's Tina Maze reacts area after winning the women's alpine-skiing giant slalom event. (Reuters/Kai Pfaffenbach)
![Norway's Ole Einar Bjoerndalen competes in the men's biathlon 15-kilometer mass start. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)](https://gdb.rferl.org/3b3baf84-0e72-4d99-b487-87705bcb5cbe_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Norway's Ole Einar Bjoerndalen competes in the men's biathlon 15-kilometer mass start. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)
![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)](https://gdb.rferl.org/818f8f70-603f-4f2e-b595-af9057188039_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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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)
![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)](https://gdb.rferl.org/f182adc7-49be-4786-9447-946abfb7fa09_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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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)
![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)](https://gdb.rferl.org/6859f115-bcc3-4f72-85d7-1d6e2412bf49_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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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)
![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)](https://gdb.rferl.org/9686066b-d533-4fb9-a60e-67a62677d118_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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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)
![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)](https://gdb.rferl.org/aa8211b4-ebcb-42d0-bc81-64da9c0ca686_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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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)
![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)](https://gdb.rferl.org/b93462a1-b49d-4a3e-b56b-77516062cf38_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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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)
![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)](https://gdb.rferl.org/ecb29af2-a60f-4219-9e31-6c691fdd965a_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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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)
![James Machon of Great Britain in action during the men's freestyle-skiing halfpipe qualification. (epa/Sergei Ilnitsky)](https://gdb.rferl.org/7981ab8a-5a47-4c50-8757-b403f8d57e86_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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James Machon of Great Britain in action during the men's freestyle-skiing halfpipe qualification. (epa/Sergei Ilnitsky)