Gangneung in a sentence

Smoke from a wildfire covers near a lake in Gangneung, South Korea on Tuesday, April 11, 2023.

The United States beat Japan to win the title for the first time in the South Korean city of Gangneung this year.

At the Gangneung Ice Arena, the venue for figure skating and short track speed skating, a tent set up for security screenings lay flat on the pavement.

Canada's Kaitlyn Lawes and teammate John Morris looks towards the stands before the mixed doubles gold-medal curling action against Switzerland at the Olympic Winter Games in Gangneung, South Korea on Tuesday, February 13, 2018.

Eighty orchestra members and 60 singers and dancers will be performing in Seoul, the capital; and Gangneung, where the North Koreans will be housed for the trip, according to The New York Times.

GANGNEUNG — Nobody saw this coming.

GANGNEUNG, South Korea (AP) — The world, some fret, is falling apart.

GANGNEUNG, South Korea — Over the past four years, Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson had practiced the move thousands of times.

GANGNEUNG, South Korea — These were going to be the Redemption Games for Elise Christie, who crashed or was disqualified from all three of her individual races in short-track speedskating at the 2014 Olympics in Sochi.

Ice dancers Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of Canada perform their short dance as part of the figure skating team event at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games at the Gangneung Ice Arena.

I don’t know about that, I was the only one in there,” Bourque said with a wry grin Friday after a brisk practice at the Gangneung Hockey Centre’s training facility.

Murray, who examined the North Koreans first-hand during an event in Gangneung last year, has identified five players as memorable, but among them, only forwards made the trip for the Olympics.

Nao Kodaira stormed to gold in the women's 500 metres in an Olympic record time of 36.94 seconds at the Gangneung Oval on Sunday.

No wonder the Gangneung Ice Area was a happy mess of orange colors.

Once again, there were plenty of empty seats and not much atmosphere at the 10,000-capacity Gangneung Hockey Centre.

Perched on a low, pine-forested hill overlooking the beachfront in the city of Gangneung the geometric white tower of the hotel, which opened in 2015 in the run-up to the Games, is perfectly sited to bask in the glow of the rising sun.

Team Canada after being defeated in the Ice Hockey gold medal game between Canada and the United States at the Gangneung Hockey Centre in South Korea.

The 140-member Samjiyon Orchestra is scheduled to hold concerts on Thursday at the Gangneung Art Center and Sunday at the National Theater of Korea’s Haeoreum Grand Theater in Seoul.

Then for dinner, her South Korean hosts took her to a fancy restaurant in Gangneung, on the east coast, before the hockey game.

There were gasps at the Gangneung Ice Arena during practice.