The selected events of the day in photos from the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, Day 14, February 21: men's ice-hockey reached the semifinals, the first announced doping case in Sochi, and the Ukrainian women's biathlon relay victory.
Winter Olympics, Day 14
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Women skiers compete in the small final of the women's freestyle ski-cross event. (epa/Daniel Karmann)
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Marielle Thompson (right) leads fellow Canadian Kelsey Serwa on her way to winning in the women's freestyle ski-cross event. (epa/Sergei Ilnitsky)
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Sweden's Loui Eriksson (left) and Nicklas Backstrom and Finland's Ossi Vaananen and goalie Karl Lehtonen watch the puck going over the bar during the semifinal between Sweden and Finland. (epa/Larry W. Smith)
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Goalkeeper Henrik Lundqvist celebrates Sweden's victory over Finland in their semifinal match. (epa/Srdjan Suki)
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Russian athletes during the quarterfinals of the men's team pursuit in speed skating. (RIA Novosti/Vladimir Baranov)
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Vladimir Grigorev (rear) of Russia and Freek van der Wart of the Netherlands after both crashed out during men's 500-meter quarterfinals of the short-track event in the Iceberg Skating Palace.
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Gold-medal winner Viktor An of Russia celebrates after the men's 500-meters short-track speed-skating finals. (RIA Novosti/Grigory Sisoyev)
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The ceremony of raising the flags of the Swiss, Canadian, and U.S. national teams during the awarding of winners of women's ice hockey. (RIA Novosti/Aleksei Kudenko)
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Red stones played by Canada and yellow ones played by Britain are seen in the house during their men's curling gold-medal game. Canada won. (Reuters/Laszlo Balogh)
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Gold-medal winner Mikaela Shiffrin of the United States clears a gate during the women's alpine-skiing slalom. (Reuters/Mike Segar)
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Gold-medallist Maddie Bowman of the United States celebrates during the victory ceremony for the women's freestyle-skiing halfpipe. (Reuters/Shamil Zhumatov)
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The doping control station in Laura Biathlon Center. A German biathlete has failed a drug test in the first announced doping case of the Sochi Olympics. (epa/Hendrik Schmidt)
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Ukraine's Vita Semerenko competes in the women's biathlon 4x6-kilometer relay. (RIA Novosti/Konstantin Chalabov)
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Russia's Olga Zairtseva at the shooting lane of the women’s biathlon relay. The Russian team won silver. (RIA Novosti/Aleksei Filippov)
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(left to right) Gold medalists Val Semerenko, Olena Pidhrushna, Yulia Dzhyma, and Vita Semerenko of Ukraine celebrate after the women's biathlon 4x6-kilometer relay. (epa/Filip Singer)