PyeongChang Winter Olympics 2018: Everything you need to Know

Winter Olympics which is officially known as XXIII Olympics games in scheduled to take place from 9 February. The event will continue till 25 February 2013 and will be held in Pyeongchang County, South Korea. Because of this the international multi-sport event is also known as PyeongChang 2018.

The previous winter Olympics were held in the year 2014 and was hosted by Sochi. However, the next winter Olympics will be held in 2022 and expected to be hosted by Beijing. The motto of this event is “passion connected”. The Olympics will be South Korea second Olympics and the first winter Olympics that it will be hosting. South Korea hosted its first Olympics which was the summer Olympics held in the year 1988.

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The country that will be hosting the Olympics was already announced in the year 2011. International Olympics committee has announced that PyeongChang would host the event. The announcement was made back in 6th July 2011. PyeongChang hand won in its first bid itself.

It received more votes than the Munich, Germany and France combined. The announcement was made after 23rd IOC session in South Africa, Dubai. The venue will be PyeongChang Olympic stadium. The first two were in Japan, Sapporo (1972) and Nagano (1998).

Participating countries in Winter Olympics 2018

Countries that would be participating in winter Olympics 2018 includes,

List of Countries Participating in Winter Olypics 2018
Albania	Chile	Guam	Luxembourg	Poland	Togo
Algeria	China	Guatemala	Macedonia	Portugal	Tonga
American Samoa	Colombia	Honduras	Madagascar	Puerto Rico	Trinidad and Tobago
Andorra	Costa Rica	Hungary	Malta	Romania	Turkey
Argentina	Croatia	Hong Kong	Mexico	Russia	Uganda
Armenia	Cyprus	Iceland	Moldova	San Marino	Ukraine
Australia	Czech Republic	India	Monaco	Senegal	Uruguay
Austria	Denmark	Ireland	Mongolia	Serbia	USA
Azerbaijan	Dominica	Israel	Montenegro	Slovenia	Uzbekistan
Belgium	Egypt	Italy	Morocco	South Africa	Unified Team
Belarus	Estonia	Jamaica	Nepal	South Korea	USSR
Bermuda	Ethiopia	Japan	Netherlands Antilles	Spain	West Germany
Bolivia	Fiji	Jordan	New Zealand	Swaziland	Yugoslavia
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Finland	Kazakhstan	Nigeria	Sweden	Virgin Islands
Brazil	France	Kenya	North Korea	Switzerland	Venezuela
British Virgin Islands	Georgia	Kyrgyzstan	Norway	Taiwan	Zimbabwe
Bulgaria	Germany	Latvia	Pakistan	Tajikistan
Cameroon	Ghana	Lebanon	Paraguay	Thailand
Canada	Great Britain	Liechtenstein	Peru	The Netherlands
Cayman Islands	Greece	Lithuania	Philippines	Timor-Leste

Winter Olympics 2018 Games

There will be 102 events in 15 sports.

4 new rules will be included in PyeongChang. It will involve big air snowboarding, mixed doubles Curling, mass start speed skating and mixed team Alpine skiing. However, this time National Hockey League would not allow its readers to participate in men’s eyes tournament since 1998.

The sports that will be there in the event are mentioned below (the number of medals it will contain are indicated in bracket):

Sports	No. of Medals
Alpine skiing	11
Biathlon	11
Bobsleigh	11
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
Snow Boarding	10
Speed skating	14

List of countries that did the best in Winter Olympics

Mentioned below is a list of countries and the number of medals they have worn in winter Olympics (as of 2010) :

Top 10 Countries – Olympics
Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
USA	156	245	143	544
Canada	203	181	112	496
USSR	281	111	103	495
Norway	134	182	112	428
Sweden	119	100	174	393
Finland	73	154	162	389
Germany	136	106	87	329
Switzerland	82	86	121	289
Austria	71	84	91	249
Italy	67	64	76	207