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Thursday, February 8, 2018

2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea Feb 09-25,2018


The 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea is scheduled to be held from Feb 09,2018 to Feb 25,2018

Pyeongchang was selected as the host city in July 2011 during the 123rd International Olympic Committee(IOC)Session in Durban,South Africa

It marks the first time that South Korea has hosted the Winter Olympics and the second Olympics held in the country since the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul

The torch relay started on 24 October 2017 in Greece and will end at the start of the Olympics on 9 February 2018. On 1 November 2017 the relay entered Korea. The relay will last 101 days. There will be 7,500 torch bearers to represent the 75 million population living in Korea. There will also be 2018 support runners. The support runners will guard the torch and be messengers.

The Games will feature 102 events in 15 sports disciplines, making it the first Winter Olympics to surpass 100 medal events

2,952 athletes from 92 National Olympic Committees will compete

The Games will have a total of 13 competition venues, six of which will be new

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