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31 Olympic Athletes to Watch at the 2018 PyeongChang Games | Time » 6 days ago ...Here are the winter Olympic athletes to watch as they prepare to compete in the 2018 PyeongChang Games starting Feb. 8. Getty Images (5); Photo .....She moved to Maryland from Ghana at age 5, and took up the Winter Olympic sport when her father spotted a sign offering lessons. Biney started out in... Time.com

Seven black athletes making history at the 2018 PyeongChang ... » 5 days ago ...From bobsled to hockey, these African-American athletes are making historic contributions to the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics. ...all month long. Follow these athletes on their journey in the Olympic Winter Games as they compete for the gold for Team USA. ...The Washington Post via Getty. Nbcnews.com

2018 Winter Olympics schedule: Highlights, date, time, channels ... » 5 days ago ...Two-hundred forty-three athletes will represent the United States. There are 135 men and 108 women, the closest the team has come to parity at the Winter Games. NBC paid nearly $1 billion for broadcast rights, and events will be shown on the parent network as well as NBC Sports Network, CNBC, USA... Washingtonpost.com

About PyeongChang 2018 | Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang ... » The world's best athletes will compete on Asia's centre stage to launch New Horizons in winter sports and create a sustainable legacy for Gangwon Province and the Republic of Korea. Pyeongchang2018.com

Team USA sends most diverse team to Winter Olympics 2018 - The ... » Feb 4, 2018 ...Team USA numbers 243 athletes, which is the largest team any nation has sent to a Winter Olympics. Of that group, 10 are African American — 4 percent — and another 10 are Asian American. The rest, by and large, are white. The Winter Games contingent is typically much smaller than its summer... Washingtonpost.com

Why Beijing Was Picked to Host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games ... » Aug 3, 2015 ...Building temporary venues for a sporting mega-event that demands unrivaled extravagance of its hosts is a bad bet for most any city. ...The International Olympic Committee announced last week that Beijing will host the 2022 Winter Games, making the first city in the world to host both the Summer and... Citylab.com

South Korea fielded a men's Olympic hockey team by importing ... » 3 days ago ...The host country of the Winter Games has no men's ice hockey tradition but is competing with a polyglot lineup of players, many of them from Canada. ...South Korea has 19 foreign-born athletes competing for it in these Olympics, most of any country, with hockey accounting for the largest share. The men... Washingtonpost.com

North Korea agrees to send athletes to Winter Olympics, South says » Jan 9, 2018 ...Asia & Pacific ...North Korea agreed to send a delegation to the 2018 Winter Olympic Games taking place in South Korea next month. ...weapons are aimed only at the United States, not at its neighbors, as they struck a deal to send athletes to next month's Winter Olympics and to reopen a military hotline. Washingtonpost.com

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'Pyongyang Olympics': How North Korea stole the Winter Games ... » Jan 27, 2018 ...The procession through Seoul this week of the North Korean pop singer Hyon Song-wol, best known for her song Excellent Horse-like Lady, has inspired hopes for peace thanks to North Korea's participation in the upcoming Pyeongchang Winter Olympics – but for others, her visit conjured images of the... Scmp.com