Winter Olympics, Day 11

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

James Machon of Great Britain in action during the men's freestyle-skiing halfpipe qualification. (epa/Sergei Ilnitsky)