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The 2018 Winter Olympics featured 102 events over 15 disciplines in 7 sports, making it the first Winter Olympics to surpass 100 medal events. Six new events in existing sports were introduced to the Winter Olympic program in Pyeongchang: men's and ladies' big air snowboarding, mixed doubles curling , men's and ladies' mass start speed skating ...
Feb 7, 2018 · After a year of unprecedented tensions, North Korea unexpectedly decided to attend the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in South Korea. So why is the North participating and what could go right or...
At the 2018 Winter Games in P’yŏngch’ang, South Korea, Bjørgen won the 30-km and 4 × 5-km relay golds as well as one silver and two bronze medals to bring her lifetime Olympic medal total to 15, the most ever for any Winter Olympian. In April 2018….
Feb 9, 2018 · When the International Olympic Committee announced in September 1981 that it had selected Seoul to host the 1988 Summer Olympics, Seoul and Pyongyang had been locked in a decades-long power...
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Jan 29, 2018 · This effort to steal South Korea’s spotlight has caused some in the country to start referring to the Pyeongchang Olympics as the Pyongyang Olympics.
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North Korea competed in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Pair skaters Ryom Tae-ok and Kim Ju-sik qualified for the Games, but the North Korean National Olympic Committee failed to enter them by the 30 October 2017 deadline. On 9 January 2018, North Korea agreed in negotiations with South Korea to send both athletes and a ...
Feb 25, 2018 · The Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics kicked off with a bang on February 9. It was the second Olympics to be held in Korea after Seoul hosted the 1988 Summer Games.
