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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 .
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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 ...
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 ...
At first, the French Olympic Committee (CNOSF) was quite reluctant in bidding for a Winter Games, preferring to focus on a bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics. [1] However, four cities (Annecy, Grenoble, Nice and Pelvoux) expressed interest in hosting the 2018 games.
Nevertheless, Munich was already considering a bid for 2022 even before the 2018 bid failed. [2] Organizers budgeted US$42 million for the bid and US$331 million for venues with $143 million budgeted for an ice hockey arena. $743 million was allotted for new and planned transportation improvements.
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]