Morning all. I'll open with a lovely stat. So far, Britain has won more Winter Olympic medals in Sochi than Russia, Germany, Switzerland and France combined. Enjoy it while it lasts, folks. We're ninth in the medal table. Thank you Jenny Jones.

With the early speed skaters whizzing round the ice, I'm going to take a breather and hand you over to Lawrence Barretto.

More good news for Team GB. Lizzy Yarnold has been more than half a second faster than anyone in both training runs in the women's skeleton. She will go for gold on Thursday and Friday.

Martina Sablikova of the Czech Republic, dubbed the "Queen of Skating" by then IOC president Jacques Rogge in 2010, is the reigning champion in both the 3,000m and 5,000m. But she faces a big challenge from Dutch star Irene Wust. The skaters will race in pairs, and compete against he clock on a 400m oval.

Has Jenny Jones' bronze got you hooked on the Winters? Anxious for your next fix? Well, let me inform you that the women's 3,000m speed skating is about to start in the Adler Arena. And you can watch it live right here.

Britain's Callum Smith comes in 62nd out of 68 in his first Olympics. A great experience for the 21-year-old.

Rob Hodgetts
BBC Sport in Sochi

"Olympic downhill winner Matthias Mayer and silver medallist Christoph Innerhofer were clapped into their press conference here at the alpine centre. No sign of third-placed man Kjetil Jansrud.

"Mayer was introduced as the 2014 Olympic champion and a huge smile spread across his face. Mention of his father Helmut's super-G silver at Calgary in 1988 also produced big beams.

"The conference kicked off in German, while everyone just sat at their desks tapping away. Unfortunately I can't tell you what was said, becomes I am a "kartoffelkopf" (potato-head) when it comes to German."

Cologna, 27, lies back in the snow and savours his victory. It will feel all the sweeter given that he injured an ankle jogging and didn't race for the first time this season until 10 January.

Dario Cologna powers over the line in a time of 1 hour, 8.15.8 minutes. Marcus Hellner of Sweden takes second place and Martin Johnsrud Sundby gets the bronze.

The men's 30km skiathlon is building to a climax with lots of skiers still in contention. Martin Johnsrud Sundby of Norway is becoming detached off the back of the group and Swiss ace Dario Cologna is the current leader.

Ed Leigh
BBC Sport snowboarding and freestyle skiing commentator

"We have managed to compose ourselves now. Jenny is an athlete who has dominated our sport for a decade now. To see her event and do so well, it all came flooding out.

"It has put some pressure on the freestyle skiers but it gives people a fair amount of confidence that Britain that we are a force to be reckoned with.

"The joy of this and when you listen to the snowboarders is they started out for fun. You get to grow with that and the fun keeps going. I hope Jenny has managed to inspire people today."

GB slopestyler Aimee Fuller on BBC TV: "The great thing about our sport is you can be as creative as you want. You have to go for it and put everything you have got down on the table but you need you make it look good too. You need to fine tune those skills.

"At first, everyone was a little tentative and we thought some of the girls would hold back. We have adapted to the size of it and as everyone has got their confidence, everyone is stepping up to the plate and it is amazing to see at the Olympics."

Judy, external: Congratulations Jenny Jones Olympian, Bronze medal winner. Great tv moment with her proud parents. Congratulations

Peter Hannah, external: Amazing medal win for Jenny Jones in Slopestyle. Excellent coverage and commentary by #bbcsochi not a dry eye in the house - me included!

Diane Francou, external: Just watched Jenny Jones win bronze this morning! Totally made me cry... and I'm not even British!

Tim Warwood
BBC Sport snowboarding and freestyle skiing commentator

Snowboarding just won the Olympics and I just cried Live on BBC2! If I get fired I'm invoicing you Jenny Jones.

Just to put Jenny Jones' achievement into some perspective: Great Britain have only won a single medal at each of the last two Winter Olympics and only seven in total at the last seven Games. Never before had a Briton won a medal on snow.

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The nation has a new darling. Jenny Jones take a bow. I've got a feeling you'd quite like to know a bit more about the 33-year-old from Bristol. Here's a little profile we put together before the start of the Games.

The men's 30km skiathlon is continuing with the racers around halfway through the 15km freestyle phase.

Norway's Martin Sundby, the overall World Cup leader, is setting the pace at the front of the field but he is being chased by Sweden's defending champion Marcus Hellner while Switzerland's Dario Cologni is also part of a competitive leading group of 17 athletes.

"This is unbelievable," said the Austrian after his surprise gold. "I thought maybe in a few years I could dream of this sort of achievement. It was really cool and my family will be excited. I woke up this morning and know I could win this race. I was smiling the whole day, throughout inspection. It was my day.

"Before the race, Bode told me that he was nervous, but I was looking forward to it and I think that was an advantage."

Watch the video of Mayer's win.

Jenny Jones will be given her bronze medal at 15:30 GMT.

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The Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics were at 81% capacity on day one, according to Games organisers. Around 92% of tickets available were sold but not all the holders turned up, it seems.

Sochi 2014 director of communications Alexandra Kosterina said: "In terms of the attendance in the park, it was more than 30,000 people. If we talk about all the venues there were around 40,000 people.

"We had 501 athletes competing yesterday, we had 12 events, five of them were medal events and we had 11,033 volunteers in shifts.

"I think 92% sold is a really good figure, we are happy with that."

Among the attendees at the downhill skiing on Sunday were Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (right) and International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach.