Italian Olympic skier Giuseppe Michielli competing today in the Nordic Combined Large Hill event. Courtesy of Gary Susman over at Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch.

In fact, I have been pleasantly surprised by a number of really excellent photgraphs from the Olympics this year. Here are a few of them that I hope you enjoy.

Pierre Lueders's Canada 1 bobsleigh hurtling down the track (Michael Sohn/AP)

Team Canada captain Cassie Campbell with her gold medal (Julie Jacobson/AP)

The first day of snow at the Olympics (Bernard Weil/Toronto Star)

Italian Armin Zoeggler before his luge run (Herbert Knosowski/AP)

And then there's this one, which isn't a particularly great photo but certainly illustrates one of the big issues with this games. In case you get confused, the Canadian gentleman is the one wearing white.