The elected host city for the XXII Olympic Winter Games will be Pyeongchang County in South Korea. The games will be held February 9-25, 2018. This will be the first time that South Korea has hosted a Winter Games. There is still time to purchase tickets and attend the games. Here’s what you need to know.
Ticket Prices
Surprisingly, only around 60% of the tickets to the games have already sold. This means that there are still plenty of seats left. Prices range from around $17 to $1,293. The most expensive tickets are those for the opening and closing ceremonies as well as those for the men’s hockey gold medal game and figure skating.
What To See
This year there will be 15 sports and 102 different events. Big air snowboarding will be making its debut and will replace parallel slalom. Also new this year will be mixed team alpine skiing, mass start speed skating and mixed doubles curling.
The Medals For Each Event
Wondering which sport will have the least and most amount of medal events? Here’s how they break down:
-Alpine Skiing 11
-Biathlon 11
-Bobsleigh 3
-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
-Snowboarding 10
-Speed Skating 14
Who To Watch
With over 200 countries participating in the Winter Olympics this year, the participants from the United States will have their work cut out for them as they vie to win as many medals as possible. There are plenty of contenders to watch this year that have been making news recently. At only 17 years old Maame Biney is the first black woman to ever qualify for the U.S.’s short track speed skating team. Another 17 year old to watch, Chloe Kim is among the favorites to win a gold in snowboarding for Team USA. Lowell Bailey will try to win Team USA’s first Olympic biathlon medal. Bailey is no stranger to the Olympics as he has competed in the past and placed 8th in the men’s 20-kilometer in 2014, which was the highest finish ever in the sport for the United States. The Men’s Curling Team hopes to bring home some kind of medal this year after failing to do so for the past ten years. John Shuster will be returning to the team once again and will hopefully be able to help the team earn a medal like he was able to do in 2006.
