Winter Olympics day two – in pictures

The best of the action from South Korea features ice hockey, figure skating, mogul skiing, luge and snowboarding – and the Samjiyon Orchestra reducing Kim Yong-nam to tears

Russia’s Evgenia Medvedeva scores a world record 81.06 in the single skating short programme

Photograph: Lucy Nicholson/Reuters

France’s freestyle skier Perrine Laffont competes in the moguls final – taking the gold medal

**Photograph: **Martin Bureau/AFP/Getty Images

Italy’s Lukas Hofer takes aim during the 10km biathlon sprint

Photograph: Francois-Xavier Marit/AFP/Getty Images

David Gleirscher secures Austria’s first men’s luge gold in 50 years

Photograph: Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images

Great Britain’s Dominic Edward Parsons takes part in a training session for the skeleton at the Olympic Sliding Centre

Photograph: Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP/Getty Images

Russians Natalia Zabiiako and Alexander Enbert show off their pairs skills

**Photograph: **AFP/Getty Images

The Olympic athletes from Russia huddle before their ice hockey match against Canada

Photograph: Brian Snyder/Reuters

Canada’s Kaetlyn Osmond takes to the ice in the figure skating short programme at the Gangneung Ice Arena

Photograph: Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images

Arnd Peiffer of Germany celebrates winning the biathlon gold

Photograph: Quinn Rooney/Getty Images

Kim Yong-nam, the president of North Korea’s Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly, wipes away tears as he attends a concert staged by the Samjiyon Orchestra. Also in attendance was the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s sister and special envoy, Kim Yo-jong

Photograph: Yonhap/EPA

(GUARDIAN)