Pyeongchang in a sentence

PYEONGCHANG: Alpine skiing was once a young man’s game won by racers from the nations that gave the sport its name but at the Pyeongchang Olympics the old order was overturned with the two specialist events won by Scandinavian men aged 35.

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) — After several weather delays, Mikaela Shiffrin finally made her Pyeongchang Olympic debut, speeding to gold in the women’s giant slalom.

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) — The International Olympic Committee rejected a request on Monday to invite 15 Russians to the Pyeongchang Winter Games just days after the athletes’ doping bans were overturned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Snow volleyball was showcased as a demonstration sport at both the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics and Lausanne 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games.

The three players were part of Canada’s gold-medal run at the 2022 Beijing Olympics and its silver-medal performance at the 2018 Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

This past week, Lee curled with the Korean women's team in Pyeongchang on the same sheet of ice where they won the silver medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics.

So could Nicole Silveira, who finished third in a World Cup skeleton race in Pyeongchang, South Korea, last month for Brazil’s first podium result in a winter sport.

An Olympic runner, Alexi Pappas, plays the fictional Penelope, a cross-country skier whose personal best isn’t enough to bring home a medal from the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

From the time of her debut on the international scene in 2018 at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Kim has been by turns characterized in foreign media as a harmless angel and a terrifying dragon lady.

The Russian Winter Olympians at Pyeongchang is than the Russians who competed at the 2010 Winter Olympics.

The two Koreas' athletes took part together at the opening and closing ceremonies of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in the South two years ago, and subsequently formed a series of joint teams in other events.

The women's bronze final during the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics saw Japan lead Britain 4-3, entering the 10th and final end.

At the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics, Mowinckel took silvers in downhill, ahead of third-placed Lindsey Vonn, and giant slalom.

At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, 20 years after the sport appeared at the Games for the first time, Carpenter was a constant presence as won gold in the women’s snowboard halfpipe at only 17 years old.

In 2018, pro player Sasha “Scarlett” Hostyn won the Intel Extreme Masters event in Pyeongchang, South Korea, making her the first woman to win a major event.

Kobayashi didn’t medal in Pyeongchang, but since the Olympics he has dominated the World Cup circuit, recording six consecutive wins in the 2018-19 season (he has 11 wins in total).

Russian fans were allowed to carry their flag at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games.

Their career also includes three world titles, most recently in 2017 when the victory capped an undefeated season, and they went on to led Team Canada as flag-bearers for the opening ceremony at the Pyeongchang Games.

They went on to earn a pair of silver medals at the 2014 Sochi Olympics and then won gold in both events four years later in Pyeongchang.

A decision to ban the Russian team from next month’s Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, but invite a number of carefully screened Russian athletes, had been “a balance”, Olympics president Thomas Bach said on Wednesday.