A very early start to UK viewers saw David Murdoch's team seal a semi final place in the curling with a stunning final stone that was one of the riskiest shots seen in this year's games as they were 5-4 behind going into the final end and with the final stone from Norway they removed a GB stone and one of their own which left Murdoch with a brilliant chance to take the two which he did spectacularly to claim a 6-5 win and setup a semi final tie against Sweden tomorrow.
The men's biathlon 15km mass start was run in heavy snow and fog and saw a photo finish between Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR) and Martin Fourcade (FRA) with the Norwegian taking the gold by literally a few centimetres denying Fourcade of a third gold of the games and meaning he had to settle for silver with Czech Ondrej Moravec taking the bronze.
A Norweigian 1-2 in the nordic combined large hill saw J. Graabak take gold with compatriot M.H.Moan taking the silver and German F.Riessle taking bronze while in the short track speed skating men's 500m, Jon Eley secured qualification for the quarter finals.
Elise Christie finally had some luck after her two previous problems as she raced through to the quarter finals of the women's 1000m with the third fastest time and she did so despite being fourth in her heat late in the race but a stellar comeback saw her fly past the field and create an unassailable gap to come home in first.
The women's 3000m relay saw gold for Korea with Canada taking the silver and Italy collecting the bronze while in the women's giant slalom, Slovenia's Tina Maze claimed her second gold of the games with Anna Fenninger (AUT) with the silver and Viktoria Rebensburg (GER) taking the bronze.
The men's snowboarding cross saw Pierre Vaultier claim gold for France with Nikolay Olyunin (RUS) taking the silver while Alex Deibold (USA) collected the bronze while in the men's 10000m speed skating it was a fourth clean sweep of the games for the Netherlands as Jorrit Bergsma stormed to gold with an Olympic record time of 12:44.45 with Sven Kramer taking silver 4.57 behind and Bob De Jong a further 18 seconds behind.
The men's biathlon 15km mass start was run in heavy snow and fog and saw a photo finish between Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR) and Martin Fourcade (FRA) with the Norwegian taking the gold by literally a few centimetres denying Fourcade of a third gold of the games and meaning he had to settle for silver with Czech Ondrej Moravec taking the bronze.
A Norweigian 1-2 in the nordic combined large hill saw J. Graabak take gold with compatriot M.H.Moan taking the silver and German F.Riessle taking bronze while in the short track speed skating men's 500m, Jon Eley secured qualification for the quarter finals.
Elise Christie finally had some luck after her two previous problems as she raced through to the quarter finals of the women's 1000m with the third fastest time and she did so despite being fourth in her heat late in the race but a stellar comeback saw her fly past the field and create an unassailable gap to come home in first.
The women's 3000m relay saw gold for Korea with Canada taking the silver and Italy collecting the bronze while in the women's giant slalom, Slovenia's Tina Maze claimed her second gold of the games with Anna Fenninger (AUT) with the silver and Viktoria Rebensburg (GER) taking the bronze.
The men's snowboarding cross saw Pierre Vaultier claim gold for France with Nikolay Olyunin (RUS) taking the silver while Alex Deibold (USA) collected the bronze while in the men's 10000m speed skating it was a fourth clean sweep of the games for the Netherlands as Jorrit Bergsma stormed to gold with an Olympic record time of 12:44.45 with Sven Kramer taking silver 4.57 behind and Bob De Jong a further 18 seconds behind.
| Rank | Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Germany | 8 | 3 | 4 | 15 |
| 2 | Norway | 7 | 4 | 7 | 18 |
| 3 | Netherlands | 6 | 6 | 8 | 20 |
| 4 | United States | 6 | 4 | 10 | 20 |
| 5 | Russian Fed. | 5 | 8 | 6 | 19 |
| 6 | Switzerland | 5 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| 7 | Belarus | 5 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| 8 | Canada | 4 | 9 | 4 | 17 |
| 9 | Poland | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 10 | China | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 11 | France | 3 | 1 | 5 | 9 |
| 12 | Austria | 2 | 6 | 1 | 9 |
| 13 | Sweden | 2 | 5 | 2 | 9 |
| 14 | Slovenia | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 15 | Korea | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| =16 | Czech Republic | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| =16 | Japan | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| 18 | Great Britain | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 19 | Slovakia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 20 | Italy | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 21 | Australia | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 22 | Finland | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 23 | Latvia | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 24 | Croatia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| =25 | Kazakhstan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| =25 | Ukraine | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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