Sporting Pictures of the Week :- Winter Olympics Special

Zoi Sadowski-Synnott’s Olympics.

The panoramic beauty of the ski cross.

Liubov Nikitina of the Russian Olympic Committee makes the rest of us feel better during the freestyle skiing women’s aerials qualifiers.

It’s been a tough week all-round for Canada.

One of the best things about these games has been the quality of the camera work.

And you never see the up-close people in the coverage.

In that summer the ski jump gets converted into a football ground.

Those pandas don’t make themselves you know.

Patrick Roest of the Netherlands competes in the men’s speed skating 10,000m.

From the archives.  The mascot from the 1984 Sarajevo Olympics.

And a ride out for the mascots in Innsbruck, 1976.