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Three cities applied with bids to host the 2018 Winter Olympics and Paralympics (also known as XXIII Olympic Winter Games and XII Paralympic Winter Games) in October 2009. The International Olympic Committee , under the leadership of Jacques Rogge , received three bids on October 15, 2009.
The games featured 102 events in 15 sports, making it the first Winter Olympics to surpass 100 medal events. Four new disciplines in existing sports were introduced to the Winter Olympic programme in Pyeongchang, including big air snowboarding, mixed doubles curling , mass start speed skating , and mixed team alpine skiing .
The Winter Olympics are a multi-sport event in winter sports organized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) every four years. Selection of the host city is done at an IOC Session four to seven years prior to the tournament, in which the IOC members vote between candidate cities which have submitted bids.
The 2018 Winter Olympics (Korean: 2018년 동계 올림픽, romanized: Icheon sip-pal nyeon Donggye Ollimpik), officially the XXIII Olympic Winter Games (French: Les XXIII es Jeux olympiques d'hiver; [B] Korean: 제23회 동계 올림픽, romanized: Jeisipsamhoe Donggye Ollimpik) and also known as PyeongChang 2018 (Korean: 평창2018, romanized: Pyeongchang Icheon sip-pal), were an ...
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At the 2018 Winter Olympics, athletes were tied in three events. In the women's 10 km cross-country skiing , two bronze medals were awarded due to a tie. [ 19 ] In the two-man bobsleigh , two gold medals and no silver medal were awarded due to a tie, [ 20 ] while in the four-man bobsleigh , two silver medals and no bronze medal were awarded due ...
[1] [2] According to a survey by The Chosun Ilbo on December 23, 2009, 91.4% of Koreans, 93.4% of Pyeongchang and Jeongseon residents, and 93% of Gangwon residents supported the 2018 Winter Olympics bid. [3] Cho Yang-ho, Chairman of Hanjin Group, was appointed as the bid committee chairman in 2009, and successfully won the bid in 2011.
The Netherlands qualified with the fastest time, setting a new Olympic record of 2:55.61. [102] The men's 500 m was won by Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen of Norway in an Olympic record time of 34.41, ahead of South Korea's Cha Min-kyu with a time of 34.42 and China's Gao Tingyu with a time of 34.65. [103]