2018 winter olympics -Current affairs

winter 2018 olympics

After the long wait of 4 year the carnival of winter olympics is back ... this time the hosting opportunity is given to south korea  (PYEONGCHANG) ...2018 Winter olympics official name is XXIII OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES. this will be south koreas second olympics and 1st winters olympics


PYEONGCHANG BIDDING AND HOST CITY ELECTION

 Pyeongchang won its 1st round of voting  ... official announcement of the result of the selection was made on 6 july2011 . their primary opponents were munich , germany and annecy , france combined.

With this pyeonchang is the 3rd ASIAN CITY to host the winter olympics and the other 2 were in japan ( SAPPORO (1972)  & NAGANO .(1998) ) ...

MOTTO : Passion  Connected.

NATION 
PARTICIPATING : 90 (ESTIMATED).

OPENING
CEREMONY : 9 FEBRUARY

CLOSING 
CEREMONY :25 FEBRUARY






PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES

              

ESTIMATED 
COUNTRIES IS ABOUT 92.






DEBUTING NATIONS 

6  NATIONS TO BE DEBUTED ARE :

                                                                                              EUCADOR.
                                                                                                                                   ERITREA.

 

                                                                                                                                                                KOSOVO.
                                                                                                                                    MALAYSIA.                                                                                                                                        NIGERIA . 
                                                                                                                                                             SINGAPORE.           

            

OLYMPIC SCHEDULE 

 

SEATS AND TICKETS

Ticket prices for the 2018 Winter Olympics were announced in April 2016 and went on sale in October 2016, ranging from ₩20,000 (approximately US$17) to ₩900,000 (US$776).

 Of the 750,000 seats allocated to South Koreans, only 20.7% have been sold. International sales have been better, with 59.7% of the 320,000 allocated tickets sold. In total, 61% of tickets have been sold. Sales of tickets to the Paralympic Games are increasing slowly, with 37% of them sold .

RUSSIAN DOPING CRITICISM

On 5 December 2017, the IOC announced that the Russian Olympic Committee had been suspended effective immediately from the 2018 Winter Olympic.

After the IOC decision was announced, Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Chechnya, announced that no Chechen athletes would participate under a neutral flag.

On 6 December, Putin stated that the Russian government would not prevent any athletes from participating at the Games as individuals, but there were calls from other politicians for a boycott.

The IOC's decision was criticized by Jack Robertson, primary investigator of the Russian doping program on behalf of the World Anti-Doping Agency, who said that the IOC has issued "a non-punitive punishment meant to save face while protecting the [IOC’s] and Russia’s commercial and political interests".

." According to Robertson, "[WADA] has discovered that when a Russian athlete [reaches] the national level, he or she [has] no choice in the matter: [it is] either dope, or you’re done" ...

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