Korea and USA set the pace on sheet A at the Vancouver Olympic Centre today, as they played a quick game, wrapping up long before the other teams. With skip Augusto Perez, USA produced two late steals to win 9:6 over Korea. The set up by USA second, Jim Pierce, who froze a stone against a Korean rock by running back a guard stone in the seventh end, was crucial to the two point steal that put USA two points ahead of Korea. Without the option to draw for a single in the last end, Korea's Kim Haksung was forced to attempt a difficult double take-out that missed and allowed USA to steal one more point.

Sheet B saw Great Britain take on Canada, with the Canadians controlling to game to the end with a 9:2 win. Sweden and Switzerland wrapped up last among the afternoon games as the Swiss narrowly edged out the Swedes 7:6.

After stealing from Germany in the first and fourth end, Norway led the game 6:4 after six ends. However, German skip Jens Jaeger drew for a massive six points on the seventh end, leading to their 10:6 win over the Norwegians.

With only four sheets at the Vancouver Paralympic Centre, Germany and Switzerland will play their second game tomorrow.

With wet snow coming down heavily, the Biathlon athletes fought hard to make their best performances.

The finals for Biathlon kicked off with the Men's 2.4km Sitting category. In first place was Irek Zapirov (LW12) of Russia, followed by Iurii Kostiuk (LW10.5) of Ukraine and USA's Andy Soule (LW12), who won the first ever medal for the USA in Paralympic Biathlon.

In the Women's 2.4km Sitting category, Olena Iukovska (LW12) of Ukraine took first place, followed by Maria Iovleva (LW12) of Russia and Lyudmyla Pavlenko (LW11.5) of Ukraine in third. In the Women's 3km Standing category, Russian Anna Burmistrova (LW8), who won first in the World Cup this year, took gold, followed by Majia Loytynoja (LW8) of Finland. Third place was won by Russian Alena Gorbunova.

In the Men's 3km Standing category, Kirill Mikhaylov of Russia (LW4) came in first place, followed by Nils-Erik Ulset (LW3) of Norway and Grygorii Vovchynskyi (LW8) of Ukraine. For the Men's 3km in the Visually Impaired category, Vitaliy Ludyanenko (B3) of Ukraine won first place with guide Volodymyr Ivanov. Second place was taken by Nikolay Polukhin (B2) of Russia with guide Andrey Tokarev, and the bronze medal was won by Belarusian Vasili Shaptsiaboi (B2) with guide Mikalai Shablouski.

The day ended with Women's 3km Visually Impaired category and German Verena Bentele (B1), a favourite for Germany, who came in first place with guide Thomas Friedrich. Bentele was followed by Russia's Liubov Vasilyeva (B2) with guide Natalia Yakimova, and Mikhalina Lysova (B3) with guide Alexey Ivanov.

In a classic Sweden-Norway rivalry, the Swedish Ice Sledge Hockey team took an early lead despite trailing on the shot clock and having not many scoring opportunities. They led courtesy of a late goal in the first period by Marcus Holm, surprising and sending a wake-up call to the 2009 World Champions Norwegians. Sweden's Ulf Nilsson was sensational stopping most of the rubber thrown at him on the night. Nilsson said: "That it was the best game [he has played] ever", despite a heart breaking 2:1 loss in a shoot-out.

Norwegian forward Pedersen summed up his team performance: "Opening games are tough and we had chances [to score] but the main problem is that we did not convert. It would have been catastrophic if we did not win this game."

A capacity crowd at UBC Thunderbird stadium went home happy as the Canada won against Italy 4:0. Canada's team opened the scoring when forward Marc Dorion scored after a broken play in Team Italy's zone at the 9:28 mark of the first period. The Canadian crowd erupted, and a sea of Canadians began cheering "Go Canada Go" as the goal went in to put Canada up 1:0.

Santino Stillitano was a big reason why Team Canada did not run up the score against Italy afterwards stating: "They were happy about their performance. They tried to have a defensive game plan and conceded that Canada is a good team".

"We were missing the net and not burying our chances, but I was proud [of our performance]… going into the third period you want to finish the other team it was good practice for us being in a tight game, but credit Italy they are playing better systems and did a really good job of clogging up the neutral zone and keeping us to the outside" said Adam Dixon of Team Canada.

A huge fan favourite, Ice Sledge Hockey is growing since debuting at the Paralympic Winter Games in 1994. Christine Young from South Carolina watched the opening game of the tournament and said "[the atmosphere] it was unreal... it gave me chills when it started". Volunteer Christopher Grahn echoed these sentiments, stating it was the first time he had ever seen the Paralympic Sport and that it was a great game.

From Spruce Grove, Alberta, Kirk Schornstein began his young skiing career in the Nancy Greene Programme at Snow Valley. He began racing with able-bodied skiers before joining the Canadian Para-alpine Development Ski team. As a member of the Canadian Para-Alpine team, Kirk showed his incredible potential by winning the Giant Slalom event and placing third in the Slalom event at the 2009 TELUS Canadian Para-Alpine Ski Championships. Being a part of the Canadian Para-Alpine team helped Kirk develop some personal goals. "This was a goal I completed, to be at the Paralympics," said Schornstein. "In Russia (Sochi 2014), it will be a big year. Also, next year I really hope to win the Crystal Globe," Schornstein continued.

Although, he is not expecting to dominate the field, he will use this time as "an experiment for the up and coming years" and to get a feel for his competition.

Krista McArthur is 29 years old and from Surrey, Canada. She works as a volunteer at the Athletes' Village in Vancouver in the Plaza and Events areas. More specifically, Krista is responsible for taking care of the athletes needs in the games room of the Athletes' Village, which is housed in a newly renovated old salt factory building. Krista chose to be a volunteer because she has been a volunteer all of her life. She enjoys getting out and dealing with people, and likes to be involved with new people. So far, Krista has met some of the athletes from the Wheelchair Curling team from Norway.