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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 ...
- Bids for The 2018 Winter Olympics
Three cities applied with bids to host the 2018 Winter...
- 2018 Winter Olympics Closing Ceremony
The closing ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics was held on...
- Figure Skating
Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or...
- Speed Skating
A total quota of 180 athletes were allowed to compete at the...
- Luge
Doubles luge, Myroslav and Ivan Lenko at the 2022 Luge World...
- Biathlon
The biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country...
- 2018 Winter Olympics medal table
The 2018 Winter Olympics medal table is a list of National...
- Bids for The 2018 Winter Olympics
- New Horizons
- Compact Games
- Promising Future For Winter Sport
PyeongChang's vision for the 2018 Games was to offer the Olympic Movement and the world of winter sports New Horizons—a legacy of new growth and new potential never seen before.
Its Winter Games plan was one of the most compact in Olympic history. It offered a unique stage on which the world’s best athletes could achieve superior performances.
With PyeongChang’s strategic position in Asia, and its access to a young and fast growing youth market, the 2018 Olympic Winter Games exposed new generations of potential athletes to the power of winter sport.
The Winter Olympic Games have evolved since their inception. Sports and disciplines have been added and some of them, such as alpine skiing, luge, short track speed skating, freestyle skiing, skeleton, and snowboarding, have earned a permanent spot on the Olympic program.
The 2018 Winter Olympics, officially the XXIII Olympic Winter Games and also known as PyeongChang 2018, were an international winter multi-sport event held between 9 and 25 February 2018 in Pyeongchang, South Korea, with the opening rounds for certain events held on 8 February, a day before the opening ceremony.
This is a chronological summary of the major events of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang County, South Korea. Two events, the curling mixed doubles tournament and the men's normal hill ski jumping competition, held their preliminary rounds on 8 February. The opening ceremony took place one day later on 9 February.
Overview. The 2018 Olympic Winter Games were awarded to PyeongChang, Korea at the IOC Session in Durban, South Africa on 6 July 2011.
