PyeongChang (RWH) On 26 September there are exactly 500 days remaining until the official opening ceremony of the XXIII Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea,. Korea’s second Olympics, following the 1988 Summer Games in Seoul, is due to take place from 9 to 25 February 2018.
It will be the third time that the Winter Olympics will have been staged in Asia, following on from Sapporo in 1972 and Nagano in 1998 (both Japan). After two failed bids in 2010 and 2014, PyeongChang won at its third attempt in 2011 against Annecy (FRA) and Munich (GER).
In the Alpensia Sliding Center, medals will be awarded in five IBSF disciplines: skeleton women, skeleton men, two man bob, women’s bob and four man bob.