Onderwerp: 2018 Winter Olympics

2018 Winter Olympics

The 2018 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXIII Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as PyeongChang 2018, is a major international multi-sport event scheduled to take place from 9 to 25 February 2018 in Pyeongchang County, South Korea.

The elected host city was announced on 6 July 2011 by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) after the 123rd IOC Session in Durban, South Africa. Pyeongchang won its bid on the first round of voting, receiving more votes than both Munich, Germany and Annecy, France combined.

These will be South Korea's second Olympic Games and its first Winter Games; Seoul hosted the Summer Games in 1988. Pyeongchang will be the third Asian city to host the Winter Games; the first two were in Japan, at Sapporo (1972) and Nagano (1998).




PyeongChang

PyeongChang 2018's vision for the 2018 Games is 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 is one of the most compact in Olympic history, it offers a unique stage on which the world’s best athletes can 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 will no doubt expose new generations of potential athletes to the power of winter sport.




Sports

The 2018 Winter Olympics will feature 102 events in 15 sports. Four new disciplines in existing sports will be introduced in Pyeongchang, including big air snowboarding, mixed doubles curling, mass start speed skating, and mixed team alpine skiing. It will also feature two eSports tournaments organized by Intel and supported by the IOC as a demonstration sport prior to the Opening Ceremony.

Numbers in parentheses indicate the number of medal events contested in each sports discipline:

* Alpine skiing (11)
* Biathlon (11)
* Bobsleigh (3)
* Cross-country skiing (12)
* Curling (3)
* Figure skating (5)
* Freestyle skiing (10)
* Ice hockey (2)
* Luge (4)
* Nordic combined (3)
* Short track speed skating (8)
* Skeleton (2)
* Ski jumping (4)
* Snowboarding (10)
* Speed skating (14)



Medals

Composition:
Gold : a silver medal with a purity of 99.9% plated with 6 g of gold.
Silver: a silver medal with a purity of 99.9%.
Bronze: a copper medal (Cu90-Zn10).

Weight:
Gold: 586 g.
Silver: 580 g.
Bronze: 493 g.

Diameter: 92.5 mm

Number of medals: 259




Virtual Medal Table

The final countdown to the 2018 Winter Olympics is on. These are some of the predictions, like number of medals per country, rising star athletes, and more.

Website:
http://www.gracenote.com/virtual-medal-table/

Gracenote’s Virtual Medal Table (VMT) is a statistical model based on individual and team results in previous Olympics Games, World Championships and World Cups to forecast the most likely gold, silver and bronze medal winners by country.




Competition Schedule

https://www.pyeongchang2018.com/en/game-time/results/OWG2018/en/general/competition-schedule.htm


Medal table

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Winter_Olympics_medal_table


Live stream 2018 Winter Olympics

http://livetv.sx/enx/allupcomingsports/18/

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Move that to spam please, thank you.

funny fact:

dude that is on croatia bob sleigh team went with me on the same year/class on university (first half of 2000 decade), cool dude.. originally he was 100m and 200m sprinter, he tried to get to some major tournaments but things didn't go his way..

then he saw opportunity in bob and well, he succeeded..

similar to that "cool runnings" movie, jamaican dude that went on bob sleigh olympic games XD

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106611/


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Many man and woman from 100m and 200m are in bob teams, in the Netherlands also.

yea, I guess they need a runner.. they also asked my best friend to join them and he was also training in the same athletic club but he was.. damn, can't recall the word for it.. he threw spear/disc and that heavy ass metal ball XDD (sry, it's late, my brain is on strike)..

and he was about 140kg, strong like an elephant so he was perfect for inertia XD.. he never did accept the invitation though..

Sanka, are you alive?

i dont see netherlands ski jumpers.

but i see

http://www.skisprungschanzen.com/EN/Ski+Jumps/NED-Netherlands/Bergschenhoek/0397/


2018 still 0 ski jumpers?

funny

in Belgium there are also track and field athletes in the bob but not pure sprinters
A spearthrower and a heptathlete :p

But they are doing really great ;)

Ya man, do you want to kiss my lucky egg

Classic :))

Funny what?

0 ski jumpers?

Tell all

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Didn't know Belgium also has a bob team and I have no idea how good or bad they are.

That's part of the fun of watching the Olympics, all kind of new things. Sports I see once in every 4 years, like snowboarding, freestyle skiing, etc. Speed skating won't have many surprises, I know most names. But skiing is all new for me, in the past I watched it a lot on tv and new all names and winners, now I don't so that's also fun.

A pity there is so much cross-country skiing. It's boring and way too many days. And with a gun it becomes a completely new sport, even more 'cross-country' days :/