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2018

XXIII Olympic Winter Games

Host city Pyeongchang, South Korea

Motto: Passion. Connected.

Nations participating 79 (estimated)

Events 102 in 7 sports (15 disciplines)

Opening ceremony 9 February

Closing ceremony 25 February

Stadium Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium

The 2018 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXIII Olympic Winter Games

(French: Les XXIIIeme Jeux olympiques d'hiver; Hangul: 평창 동계 올림픽; RR: Pyeongchang Donggye Ollimpik), and commonly known as PyeongChang 2018 is a major international multi-sport event scheduled to take place from 9 to 25 February 2018, in Daegwallyeong-myeon, South Korea.

The elected host city was announced on 6 July 2011 by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), after the 123rd IOC Session in Durban, South Africa. Other candidates that applied to host the games were Annecy, France and Munich, Germany. Pyeongchang won on its third consecutive bid, having lost previously to Vancouver in Canada and Sochi in Russia.

It will be the first Winter Olympic Games and second Olympic Games in South Korea; the 1988 Summer Olympics were held in Seoul. Pyeongchang will also be the third East Asian city to host the Winter Games after Sapporo, Japan (1972), and Nagano, Japan (1998); and the first Winter Games in Continental Asia.

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