After an exciting and colourful opening ceremony, the focus turned to the slopes as early morning viewers had the chance to see the Men's Snowboard Slopestyle Final which featured GB in the shape of Jamie Nicholls and Billy Morgan but despite the former being in the medals late in the competition he ended in 6th with fellow Brit Morgan in 10th. This meant that the first medal of the Games went to USA's Sage Kotsenberg who finished ahead of Staale Sandbech of Norway and Mark McMorris of Canada.
The Women's Moguls saw a family affair at the top of the podium as the Dufour-Lapointe sisters took Gold and Silver with Justine beating Chloe to the finish while American Hannah Kearney took Bronze. The highlight of the day saw Ole Einar Bjoerndalen (Norway) take Gold in the Men's 10km Sprint Biathlon to equal the most medals won in Winter Games at 12 drawing level with compatriot Bjoern Daehlie and can go clear in the Men's Pursuit on Monday,Austria took Silver via Dominik Landertinger while Czech Jaroslav Soukup took Bronze.
Norway ensured a lead in the medal table with a second Gold and a Bronze in the Women's 15km Skiathon with Marit Bjoegen and Heidi Went sandwiching Sweden's Charlotte Kalla while the Men's 5000m Speed Skating saw a clean sweep for the Netherlands with Sven Kramer sealing Gold with Jan Blokhuijsen taking Silver and Jorrit Bergsma winning Bronze.
Day Two saw an all Eastern European podium in the Women's 7.5km Sprint with Anastasiya Kuzmina (SVK) securing Gold with Olga Vilukhina taking Silver while Vita Semerenko sealing Bronze.
In the 30km Skiathon, Dario Cologna (SWI) took Gold by a narrow margin over Marcus Hellner (SWE) with Matin Johnsrud Sunby, a further second behind take bronze for Norway. GB competed in the Figure Skating:Team Event but sadly finished tenth in qualification that saw the hosts, Canada and the US topped the qualification group and go into the final with Italy and Japan but the final the same result medal wise as Russia took gold, Canada took Silver and the US secure Bronze with Japan finishing fifth behind Italy.
Felix Loch (GER) took Gold in the Men's Luge with an overall time of 3:27.53 with Albert Demchecko (RUS) landing Silver ahead of Armin Zoeggeler (ITA) who in taking Bronze made it six medals in six separate Winter Games.
Favourites Aksel Lund Svindal (NOR)and Bode Miller (USA) could only manage fourth and eighth as Matthias Mayer (AUT) took Gold in the Men's Downhill with Christof Innerhofer (ITA) taking Silver ahead of Kjetil Jansrud of Norway.
Ski Jumping saw Gold for Kamil Stoch (POL) with Peter Prevc (SLO) taking Silver and Anders Bardal securing Bronze with the Women's 3000m Speed Skating seeing a close finish with Irene Wust sealing Netherlands' first Gold of the Games with Martina Sabikova (CZE) taking Silver and Olga Graf taking Bronze for the host nation.
The highlight of the day saw a first medal for Team GB as Jenny Jones took Bronze in the Women's Slopestyle behind Enni Rukajarvi (FIN) in the Silver medal position with American Jamie Anderson winning Gold.
So after two days the medal table looks like this....
The Women's Moguls saw a family affair at the top of the podium as the Dufour-Lapointe sisters took Gold and Silver with Justine beating Chloe to the finish while American Hannah Kearney took Bronze. The highlight of the day saw Ole Einar Bjoerndalen (Norway) take Gold in the Men's 10km Sprint Biathlon to equal the most medals won in Winter Games at 12 drawing level with compatriot Bjoern Daehlie and can go clear in the Men's Pursuit on Monday,Austria took Silver via Dominik Landertinger while Czech Jaroslav Soukup took Bronze.
Norway ensured a lead in the medal table with a second Gold and a Bronze in the Women's 15km Skiathon with Marit Bjoegen and Heidi Went sandwiching Sweden's Charlotte Kalla while the Men's 5000m Speed Skating saw a clean sweep for the Netherlands with Sven Kramer sealing Gold with Jan Blokhuijsen taking Silver and Jorrit Bergsma winning Bronze.
Day Two saw an all Eastern European podium in the Women's 7.5km Sprint with Anastasiya Kuzmina (SVK) securing Gold with Olga Vilukhina taking Silver while Vita Semerenko sealing Bronze.
In the 30km Skiathon, Dario Cologna (SWI) took Gold by a narrow margin over Marcus Hellner (SWE) with Matin Johnsrud Sunby, a further second behind take bronze for Norway. GB competed in the Figure Skating:Team Event but sadly finished tenth in qualification that saw the hosts, Canada and the US topped the qualification group and go into the final with Italy and Japan but the final the same result medal wise as Russia took gold, Canada took Silver and the US secure Bronze with Japan finishing fifth behind Italy.
Felix Loch (GER) took Gold in the Men's Luge with an overall time of 3:27.53 with Albert Demchecko (RUS) landing Silver ahead of Armin Zoeggeler (ITA) who in taking Bronze made it six medals in six separate Winter Games.
Favourites Aksel Lund Svindal (NOR)and Bode Miller (USA) could only manage fourth and eighth as Matthias Mayer (AUT) took Gold in the Men's Downhill with Christof Innerhofer (ITA) taking Silver ahead of Kjetil Jansrud of Norway.
Ski Jumping saw Gold for Kamil Stoch (POL) with Peter Prevc (SLO) taking Silver and Anders Bardal securing Bronze with the Women's 3000m Speed Skating seeing a close finish with Irene Wust sealing Netherlands' first Gold of the Games with Martina Sabikova (CZE) taking Silver and Olga Graf taking Bronze for the host nation.
The highlight of the day saw a first medal for Team GB as Jenny Jones took Bronze in the Women's Slopestyle behind Enni Rukajarvi (FIN) in the Silver medal position with American Jamie Anderson winning Gold.
So after two days the medal table looks like this....
| Rank | Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Norway | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| 2 | Netherlands | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 3 | United States | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| =4 | Canada | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| =4 | Russia | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 6 | Austria | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| =7 | Germany | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| =7 | Poland | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| =7 | Slovakia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| =7 | Switzerland | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Sweden | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| =12 | Czech Republic | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| =12 | Italy | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| =14 | Finland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| =14 | Slovenia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| =16 | Great Britain | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| =16 | Ukraine | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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