, nations = 93 , athletes = 2,922 (1,680 men and 1,242 women) , events = 102 in 7

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, cauldron = Kim Yun-a , stadium =

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, winter_prev =

Sochi 2014 , ''Zharkie. Zimnie. Tvoi'') , nations = 88 , events = 98 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , athletes = 2,873 , opening = 7 February 2014 , closing = 23 February 2014 , opened_by = President Vladimir Putin , cauldron = , stadium = Fisht Olympic ...

, winter_next =

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, summer_prev =

Rio 2016 ) , nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams) , athletes = 11,238 , events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines) , opening = 5 August 2016 , closing = 21 August 2016 , opened_by = Vice President Michel Temer , cauldron = Vanderlei Cordeiro de ...

, summer_next =

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held between 9 and 25 February 2018 in

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, South Korea, with the opening rounds for certain events held on 8 February, a day before the

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. Pyeongchang was elected as the host city for the 2018 Winter Games at the

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, South Africa in July 2011. This marked the second time that South Korea had hosted the

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(having previously hosted the

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in Seoul), as well as the first time it hosted the Winter Olympics. The 2018 Games marked the third time that an Asian country had hosted the Winter Olympics, after

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and Nagano

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, both in Japan. It was also the first Winter Olympics to be held in mainland

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, and the first of three consecutive Olympic Games to be held in

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, preceding the

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in Tokyo, Japan and the

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in Beijing, China. The 2018 Games featured 102 events over 15 disciplines, a record number of events for the Winter Games. This is the first edition in Winter Olympic Games history to feature more than 100 medal events, four of which made their Olympic debut in 2018: "big air" snowboarding,

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, and mixed team

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. A total of 2,914 athletes from 93 teams competed, with the national debuts of

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and

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. After a state-sponsored doping program was exposed following the 2014 Winter Olympics, the

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was suspended, but selected athletes were allowed to compete neutrally under the special IOC designation of "

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" (OAR), provided they could meet certain anti-doping requirements.

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agreed to participate in the Games in spite of tense relations with South Korea. The two nations paraded together at the opening ceremony as a

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, and fielded a unified team (COR) in the

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. South Korea ranked seventh overall at the 2018 Winter Games, with five gold medals and 17 overall medals. South Korea has traditionally been a country that won many medals in

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, but in this competition, it also won medals in skeleton racing,

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and

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. South Korea's

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won a gold medal in men's skeleton racing, the first Olympic gold ever won by Asia in the sledding event.

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led the total medal tally with 39, followed by

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at 31 and

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at 29. Germany and Norway were tied for the highest number of gold medals, both winning 14.

Bidding and election

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was elected as the host city at the

, South Africa, on 6 July 2011, earning the necessary majority of at least 48 votes in just one round of voting. Winning 63 of the 95 votes cast in the first secret ballot, Pyeongchang received more votes than its competitors combined, overwhelmingly beating

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in Germany, which received 25 votes, and

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in France, which received seven. This was South Korea's third consecutive bid for the Winter Olympics, having been defeated by

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and

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respectively in the final rounds of voting for the

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Games. Earlier, PyeongChang lost to Vancouver with a difference of 3 votes in bidding the 2010 Olympics, and lost to Sochi with a difference of 4 votes in bidding the 2014 Olympics. Since then, South Korea made great progress in preparing to host the Winter Olympics and succeeded in hosting the 2018 Olympics after three challenges. After winning the election, Pyeongchang became the third Asian city to host the Winter Olympics. Also, South Korea became the second country in Asia to host both the Summer (

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) and Winter Olympics.

Development and preparation

On 5 August 2011, the

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(IOC) announced the formation of the Pyeongchang 2018 Coordination Commission. On 4 October 2011, it was announced that the Organizing Committee for the 2018 Winter Olympics would be headed by

Kim Jin-sun Kim Jin-sun (Korean: 김진선, hanja: 金振兟; born November 10, 1946) is a former governor of Gangwon Province, South Korea, and former president of the Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Organizing Committee for the 2018 Winter Olympics which was ...

. The

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(POCOG) was launched at its inaugural assembly on 19 October 2011. The first tasks of the organizing committee were putting together a master plan for the Games as well as forming a design for the venues. The IOC Coordination Commission for the 2018 Winter Olympics made their first visit to Pyeongchang in March 2012. By then, construction was already underway on the Olympic Village. In June 2012, construction began on a high-speed rail line that would connect Pyeongchang to

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. The

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met for an orientation with the Pyeongchang 2018 organizing committee in July 2012. Then-IOC President

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visited Pyeongchang for the first time in February 2013. The Pyeongchang Organizing Committee for the 2018 Olympic & Paralympic Winter Games created Pyeongchang WINNERS in 2014 by recruiting university students living in South Korea to spread awareness of the Olympic Games through

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s and news articles. Gold medal of the 2018 Winter Olympics in in Pyeongchang

Medals

The design for the Games' medals was unveiled on 21 September 2017. Created by Lee Suk-woo, the design features a pattern of diagonal ridges on both sides, with the Olympic rings on the front, and the obverse showing the 2018 Olympics' emblem, the event name and the discipline. The edge of each medal is marked with extrusions of

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alphabets, while the ribbons are made from a traditional South Korean textile. Gold medals contained 99 percent of silver and 1 percent of gold, which is a traditional composition for Olympic gold medals. At they were the heaviest medals in the Olympic history. 2018 Winter Olympic & Paralympic Torch,NMKCH

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Torch relay

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n population of approximately 75 million people. There were also 2,018 support runners to guard the torch and act as messengers. The torch and its bearers traveled by a diverse means of transportation, including by

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in Hansando Island,

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on the

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, marine cable car in

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over

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Island,

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in the

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Train Village, marine rail bike along the east coast in

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, and by

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Metropolitan City. There were also robot torch relays in Jeju and

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Venues

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Bidding and election

Development and preparation

Medals

Torch relay

Venues

Pyeongchang (mountain cluster)

Gangneung (coastal cluster)

Ticketing

The Games

Opening ceremony

Sports

Participating National Olympic Committees

Number of athletes by National Olympic Committee

Event scheduling

Calendar

Medal table

Podium sweeps

Records

Closing ceremony

Broadcasting

Marketing

Concerns and controversies

North–South Korean relations

Russian doping

See also

Notes

References

External links