From Lausanne, Switzerland -- IOC officials met with delegations representing North and South Korea. IOC President Thomas Bach announced today that athletes from both Nations will jointly participate in the 2018 Winter Games. Athletes from the two Koreas will march together under a Korean unification flag during Opening Ceremonies next month.
Korean athletes and unification flag
Bach said the IOC had been working for several years to address the "special situation" of having the 2018 Winter Olympics on the Korean Peninsula. North and South Korean athletes will jointly compete as a "Korean" Women's Ice Hockey team represented by the unification flag. In addition, North Korean athletes will compete in five sports, i.e., ice hockey, figure skating, short track speedskating, cross-country skiing and alpine skiing.
Source: CNN.com
Saturday, January 20, 2018
Monday, January 15, 2018
2017-18 World Para Nordic Skiing World Cup
Reposted from www.paralympic.org
The 2017-18 season is a pivotal one for Para Nordic skiers, with all events acting as qualification and preparation for the PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games.
Three World Cups featuring both biathlon and cross-country races will take place in this Paralympic year across two continents.
The season spans three months, beginning in Canmore, Canada, with the first World Cup from 9-17 December.
Skiers return to action in Europe in 2018, with the second World Cup in Oberried, Germany from 20-28 January, before the final event of the season at Vuokatti, Finland, from 2-10 February.
Those who qualify for the Winter Games will then have one month off before the action kicks off in PyeongChang.
World Cup champions out to defend their titles this season include Germany’s Martin Fleig and Ukraine’s Iurii Utkin in biathlon, and Austria’s Carina Edlinger and Ukraine’s Oleksandra Kononova
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Saturday, January 13, 2018
Are you ready for winter time in South Korea?
Getting ready for my volunteer role in PyeongChang; enjoying brisk winter hikes on Red Mountain (AL). It felt great to return to the trails atop Red Mountain! Who minds a few snow flurries?
Friday, January 12, 2018
Red Shred -- Gerard Qualifies for Team USA Snowboarding
17-year old Red Gerard qualifies for US Olympic Team as a snowboarder during Toyota US Grand Prix in Snowmass Colorado today. His second-run score was 87.28 and featured a triple cork.
Gerard began snowboarding at age 2 and enjoys his own trick park at home. His professional snowboarding began in 2015, earning attention from fellow competitors. Gerard competes as a member of Burton Global Team.
This talented teen earned third place in a slopestyle world cup in Austria one year ago. He also scored high marks last season in California competition, as well as fourth place in the Dew Tour last month.
Gerard, who hails from Colorado, has his sights on become the youngest American snowboarder to medal during the 2018 Winter Games in PyeongChang. Go, Red, Go!
Career Highlights
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Gerard began snowboarding at age 2 and enjoys his own trick park at home. His professional snowboarding began in 2015, earning attention from fellow competitors. Gerard competes as a member of Burton Global Team.
This talented teen earned third place in a slopestyle world cup in Austria one year ago. He also scored high marks last season in California competition, as well as fourth place in the Dew Tour last month.
Gerard, who hails from Colorado, has his sights on become the youngest American snowboarder to medal during the 2018 Winter Games in PyeongChang. Go, Red, Go!
Career Highlights
- 2017 FIS World Cup Standings, 1st (slopestyle), 4th (overall)
- 2015 FIS Junior World Championships, 4th (slopestyle)
Source: Karen Price, contributor to TeamUSA.org
Friday, January 5, 2018
US Figure Skating Champtionships
Awesome, inspiring, skilled, dynamic, graceful, powerful...these adjectives are inadequate to describe athletes' performances during the U.S. Figure Skating Championships yesterday in host city San Jose, CA. Eighteen-year old Nathan Chen, defending men's champion, showed little signs of his recent illness during an exceptional short program with two quadruple jumps. His score of 104.45 points is the second-highest program tally in nationals history.
Chen told ESPN, "I try to just make sure that I'm in my zone every competition," he said. "I'll always get nervous regardless of how big or small the competition is. I definitely feel the energy is different than last year [being an Olympic year]. Ultimately, I have to do what I set out to do and focus on my new goals."
From NBC Sports, "Adam Rippon and Jason Brown, the 2016 and 2015 U.S. champions, are in second and third with 96.52 and 93.23 points, respectively.
Chen told ESPN, "I try to just make sure that I'm in my zone every competition," he said. "I'll always get nervous regardless of how big or small the competition is. I definitely feel the energy is different than last year [being an Olympic year]. Ultimately, I have to do what I set out to do and focus on my new goals."
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From NBC Sports, "Adam Rippon and Jason Brown, the 2016 and 2015 U.S. champions, are in second and third with 96.52 and 93.23 points, respectively.
The men’s free skate is Saturday, live on NBCSN and streaming on NBCOlympics.com from 8-11 p.m. ET.
The three-man Olympic team — not necessarily the top three at nationals — will be named Sunday morning, chosen by a committee looking at results from the past year."
North Korea accepts offer from South Korea for peace talks
Seoul, South Korea from CNN.com
North Korea - South Korea Talks
North Korea has accepted South Korea's proposal for official talks, in what will be the first high-level contact to take place between the two countries in more than two years.
North Korea - South Korea Talks
North Korea has accepted South Korea's proposal for official talks, in what will be the first high-level contact to take place between the two countries in more than two years.
South Korean Unification Ministry spokesman Baik Tae-hyun told reporters Friday North Korea informed its southern neighbor by fax at 10:16 a.m. local time (8:16 p.m Thursday ET) that they have accepted the South's offer to initiate talks.
The person-to-person talks will be held January 9 -- one day after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's birthday -- at the Peace House, located on the South Korean side of the so-called truce village of Panmunjom, located in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between the two nations, Baik said.
The two sides agreed to work on the details of the talks "through the exchange of documents," Baik said, adding that the agenda items of the talks will be "issues related to improving inter-Korean relationships including the Pyeongchang (Winter) Olympic Games."
Monday, January 1, 2018
Be a Samsung Paralympic Reporter - win expense-paid trip to Pyeong Chang Winter Games!
Produce and submit a two-minute film showing your reporting abilities on the subject of Do What You Can’t and include five things you’d like to report on during Games time to be in with the chance to be one of the Samsung Paralympic Reporters winning the opportunity of a lifetime – an expenses paid trip to blog from PyeongChang 2018'
If being just a spectator is not enough for you, then how about reporting on the Games? In partnership with Samsung, the IPC will fly three Para sport super-fans to PyeongChang to become Paralympic Bloggers for the Games. Sound good?
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