PYEONGCHANG 2018

Dario Cologna of Switzerland became the first ever Cross Country Skier to win the Men’s 15km event thrice. Cologna showed his power and endurance to score hat-trick at Pyeongchang after Sochi in 2014 and Vancouver in 2010. He also won the Skiathlon at Sochi taking his total Olympic medal tally …

Canada’s Ted-Jan Bloeman won gold in the Men’s 10,000m Speed Skating breaking the Olympic record in the penultimate heat set by Jorrit Bergsma 15 minutes prior in the second heat. Bergsma timed 12.41.98  while Bloeman broke it in 12.39.11. Bergsma settled for silver while Italy’s Nicola Tumolero took the bronze. …

Jorien ter Mors of the Netherlands gave her country a record-equalling fourth Olympic gold medal in the event as he cruised to victory in 1,000m gold at Pyeongchang. In her way to the gold, she powered to a new Olympic record of 1:13.56. Nao Kodaira of Japan settled for silver …

American teenager, Chloe Kim, claimed gold in Women’s Snowboard Halfpipe by defeating China’s Liu Jiayu by almost 10 points. Kim scored a near-perfect score of 98.25 on her final run. Kim is the dual gold medallist from the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) in Lillehammer 2016. Arielle Gold of USA who …

Laura Dahlmeier took her second gold medal at PyeongChang 2018, as she emerged victorious in women’s 10km biathlon. Two days prior she took the gold in 7.5km Biathlon event., thus creating history in Biathlon for Germany. Slovakia’s Anastasiya Kuzmina pipped past Anais Bescond of France by a mere 0.2 seconds. …

Redmond Gerard of USA scored a run of 87.16 to win gold in the Men’s Swboarding Slopestyle event ahead of Max Parrot and Mark McMorris of Canada. 17-year old Gerard, the youngest in the men’s competition, landed a perfect backside triple cork 1440 on his final run. He became the …

Sweden’s Charlotte Kalla claimed the first gold of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in skiathlon cross country race ahead of Norway’s Marit Bjoergen who was set to win her third straight gold medal in the event. Though not a gold but with silver, Bjoergen became the most decorated woman in Winter …

At around -28 degrees centigrade with steady winds making the chill further, Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee, inaugurated the 23rd Winter Olympics Games at Pyeonghang in South Korea. “This is the moment that we have all been waiting for: the first Olympic Games on snow and ice …