The countdown to PyeongChang 2018 is on! The Winter Olympics officially starts with the opening ceremony on Friday 9 February in the grandiose PyeongChang Olympic Stadium and runs through to Sunday 25 February. This is the second time South Korea will be hosting the Olympics. Back in 1988, Seoul was the host for the summer Olympics, but is the first time they are hosting the winter Olympics.
Record number of GB athletes heading to PyeongChang
Team GB have announced a team of 59 athletes for the 2018 Olympic Games in PyeongChang, including a record 25 skiers and snowboarders. For over half the team, this will be their first ever Olympic Games.
Freestyle skiers make up the largest portion of the skiers and snowboarders in Team GB, with eleven athletes competing across four disciplines: halfpipe (5), slopestyle (4), ski cross (1) and aerials (1).
Alpine skiing
Charlie Guest, Dave Ryding, Laurie Taylor, Alex Tilley.
Cross-country skiing
Andrew Musgrave, Callum Smith, Annika Taylor, Andrew Young
Freestyle skiing
Izzy Atkin, Murray Buchan, Rowan Cheshire, Alexander Glavatsky-Yeadon, Tyler Harding, Emily Sarsfield, Peter Speight, Katie Summerhayes, Molly Summerhayes, Lloyd Wallace, James Woods
Snowboarding
Rowan Coultas, Aimee Fuller, Zoe Gillings-Brier, Billy Morgan, Jamie Nicholls, Katie Ormerod
Disciplines
There will be 102 events across 15 sports, with, for the first time, over 100 gold medals on offer.
Snowsports
Alpine Skiing, Biathlon, Cross-Country Skiing, Freestyle Skiing, Nordic Combined, Ski Jumping, Snowboard
Ice sports
Short Track Speed Skating, Speed Skating, Figure Skating, Ice Hockey, Curling
Sliding sports
Bobsleigh, Luge, Skeleton
For full timings and schedules for every sport at the Winter Olympics HERE
New disciplines
There are four new events will be added to the programme, such as Snowboard Big Air (men, women), Speed Skating Mass Start (men, women), Curling Mixed Doubles, Alpine Skiing Team Event
How to watch the Winter Olympics 2018
The BBC and Eurosport will be showing full TV coverage in the UK. If you have a TV licence, then BBC iPlayer is where you should go for to catch up programmes and highlights. The online Eurosport Player will also have full coverage of every sport.
Time difference
The time difference between London and Pyeongchang is nine hours. South Korea is nine hours ahead of the UK meaning that the events will start in the early hours.
You can see a schedule of all the key skiing and snowboarding events, with their UK timings here.
Olympics medals
The PyeongChang 2018 Games to be the first in Winter Olympic history to hold more than 100 medal events.
Mixing both Korean culture and traditions, the medals are inspired by the Korean alphabe, The strap has been created using Gapsa, a traditional Korean fabric and Traditional Korean houses were the source of inspiration for the medals case which are all unique cultural assets of Korea.
