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PyeongChang Flames Out as Least-Watched Winter Olympics Ever

March 01, 2018 22:59·
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Canadian skier David Duncan, his wife, Maja Margrethe Duncan, and trainer William Ryan Raine spent Friday night behind bars, accused of stealing a auto during the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

US President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka was just a few seats away from North Korea's Kim Yong Chol, who is accused of masterminding attacks on South Korea and is blacklisted by Seoul.

Both Korean countries competed as one team in the women's hockey and marched under a unified flag at the opening and closing ceremonies.

The Canadian Olympic Committee confirmed in a statement Sunday that Duncan, his wife Maja and Canadian technical coach William Raine had been detained by police in South Korea and were now released.

"Well pals, it looks like the International Olympic Committee took down our video", the band said Friday in a post on its Facebook page.

It also featured traditional and contemporary Korean dance, music, puppets, a giant turtle - a sacred animal in Korea - and finished with a thumping dance party for the athletes.

Now, the world must brace itself for what Norway might do at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.

"Here in Korea, we will continue our endeavor to broaden the horizon of peace that began in Pyeonchang".

By one count, there are about 80 different broadcast outlets in Pyeongchang for the Winter Games, which must make catching the media bus off the mountain at the end of alpine skiing an event in its own right.

During the competition itself, fully clothed, he finished the men's 15-kilometer cross-country race.

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"This was hugely disappointing and does not permit the International Olympic Committee to envisage lifting the suspension of Russian Federation for the closing ceremony", Bach said, referring to the positive tests.

Baker said it is an unbelievable experience to see someone who grew up in the town to go on the win an Olympic medal.

Cunningham has taken 12 official trips down this track since arriving for the Olympics - six in two-man training, four more in the two-man race, and two in his four-man sled.

South Korea entered the team competition after Choi Heung-chul earned a last-minute entry to the PyeongChang Winter Olympics last week.

Norway leads the medal standings with 38 medals, followed Canada at 29 (11 gold, eight silver, 10 bronze) and Germany at 28. "We have a responsibility to give kids a nice sport to develop in so we're thinking the other way around - not, 'OK, we need so many kids to make a national team'".

Over the past two weeks, hundreds of medals have been awarded to athletes from all over the world. The IOC voted not to reinstate the Russian flag just hours before the grand finale.

- NORWAY: The country set a Winter Games record with 39 medals, helped by the five won by cross-country skier Marit Bjoergen - the most decorated Winter Olympian of all time with 15 medals, and fellow cross-country skier Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo, who is just 21 but won three gold medals in four events in his first Olympics.

While that can be seen as a strategic way of competing - given it arguably increases the country's chances of winning more medals - Øvrebø says that's more of a happy coincidence.

Bjoergen won five medals at the Pyeongchang Games, more than any other athlete.

Also Saturday, short-track speedskater Kim Boutin of Sherbrooke, Que., who claimed a silver and two bronze medals in her Olympic debut, was named Canada's flag-bearer for Sunday's closing ceremony. Team USA even added another gold medal to its collection. I'm an Olympic medal victor now.

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