Pyeongchang 2018: what happened on day four of the Winter Olympics?
Unsafe winds played havoc with the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics on Wednesday, forcing the postponement of two medal events and closing a major area for spectators who were told to stay indoors.
South Korea has been using the Pyeongchang Games to break the ice with the reclusive North, which has been trading nuclear threats with the United States recently.
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People living in Pacific Standard Time – cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, Vancouver and Seattle – are 17 hours behind PyeongChang.
“I was trying to keep the spirits high, like, “Let’s run it,”‘ Anderson said”.
Shiffrin already had her giant slalom race postponed Monday at blustery Yongpyong.
The Canadians won the men’s moguls title for the third consecutive Olympics, with six-time world champion Mikael Kingsbury filling the only hole in his resume. They’re the first German team to win two straight doubles golds since Hans Rinn and Norbert Hahn in 1976 and 1980.
The gold medal is the 100th overall gold for the United States in the Winter Olympics, and White is the first American male to win gold at three separate Winter Games.
Strong gusts at the coastal Olympic Park have led to outdoor activities concluding prematurely with one of the focal points of the Games showing visible damage from the conditions.
The spacesuit inspired $800 Burton jackets similar to uniforms that the USA snowboard team competed in are also out of stock for both men and women on the Burton website. When this article was published, Germany was in the lead with 4 golds, 1 silver and 2 bronzes making the total number of medals won – 7.
Condoms were first given out at the Seoul Olympic Games in 1988. The first were Irving Jaffee and Jack Shea, who became the country’s first two-time winter gold medalists in 1932. The country topped Biathlon with two gold medals and Ski Jumping with one.
The 17-year-old Kim produced a top score of 98.25 points on her third and final run to beat Liu by nearly 10 points in front of the largest crowd seen at the venue.
This is White’s third gold medal and first since 2010. The U.S. will look to rebound against Slovakia on Friday.
As the Week noted, the International Olympics Committee has formally banned Russian Federation from participation in the games but allowed 169 athletes to compete under a neutral flag.
Shortly before the ceremony, the official Pyeongchang 2018 site stopped working, with users unable to access information or print tickets for events.