Winter Olympics 2014: Pictures from day one at Sochi

Finland's snowboarder Peetu Piiroinen competes in the men's snowboarding slopestyle final Credit: Photas/Tass/Photas/Tass/Press Association Images

The Sochi Winter Olympics got under way today, here are some highlights from the action.

Jan Blokhuijsen of the Netherlands in action during the Men's 5000m Speed Skating event Credit: Christian Charisius/DPA/Press Association Images
Finland's snowboarder Peetu Piiroinen competes in the men's snowboarding slopestyle final Credit: Photas/Tass/Photas/Tass/Press Association Images
Canadian sisters Chloe Dufour-Lapointe (left) and Justine Dufour-Lapointe come second and first in the freestyle skiing moguls final Credit: REUTERS/Mike Blake
Hannah Kearney of the US competes during the women's freestyle skiing moguls final Credit: REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
Kirsten Moore-Towers and Dylan Moscovitch of Canada compete during the Team Pairs Free Skating Credit: REUTERS/David Gray
Australia's Britteny Cox performs a jump during the women's freestyle skiing moguls final Credit: REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
Austria's Clemens Schattschneider performs a jump during the men's snowboard slopestyle semi-final Credit: REUTERS/Dylan Martinez
Germany's Andreas Wank soars through the air during the men's ski jumping individual normal hill qualification Credit: REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
Competitors in the women's skiathlon collapse into a heap after their event Credit: REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin