First event of PyeongChang 2018 starts with mixed doubles curling
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Only one place to start today and that's in PyeongChang,... with the opening ceremony less than 36 hours away.
The host city and the sub host city of Gangneung are bustling with athletes from around the world,... ready to put in their best possible performance on the ice or snow.
Even though the opening cermeony is still a day-and-a-half away, a number of sporting disciplines have already started their qualification rounds.
For more, let's connect to our Lee Ji-won, who is standing by at the Gangneung Curling Centre.
Ji-won, so most of us we expecting the sporting action to start this weekend, but we got a headstart?
Hi Mark, the first games of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics started this morning,... with four round robin preliminary rounds of the mixed doubles curling.
Over the next four days, eight countries, including South Korea, the United States and Finland, will compete to qualify for the medal round.
The game has been added to the Olympics for the first time this year, so we're still unsure who's likely to be standing on the medal podium in the coming days.
Team Korea got off to the best possible start though.
They beat Finland in the first game, and will take on China this evening.
The Men's individual normal hill qualification for Ski Jumping will also start tonight at the Alpensia Ski Jumping Centre in PyeongChang.
Sounds like some exciting stuff lined up for the day. Well, here in Seoul, we've been seeing freezing temperatures, and I'm guessing it's worse for you guys in the mountains. But can you still feel the Olympic buzz despite the biting cold?
Mark, it was freezing cold earlier this week,... but starting yesterday the temperature has improved a lot.... thankfully.
It now ranges somewhere in the low negatives here in Gangneung.
And despite today being a weekday,... a lot of people came to watch the games and cheer for their teams.
I was able to talk to some of the spectators who came to watch, let's have a look.
"It's a once-in-a-lifetime experience to watch these kinds of major global sporting events in Gangwon-do Province, so we came to check it out. It made me feel that the Olympics has started and I'm very excited "
"It was really cool to watch the athletes compete We were really happy that we won the first match. I don't know much about curling, but it was really intense and the atmosphere was really great so I had a lot of fun."
The excitement is expected to build throughout the day, as there will be various performances and events held later,... or even as we speak,... including the Olympic torch relay.
The torch will visit different parts of Gangneung and the city's major tourist attractions today, like Gyeongpo Beach, before it finally heads to Pyeongchang and the Olympic Plaza for Friday's opening ceremony.
That's all from me for now.
Back to you Mark.
The host city and the sub host city of Gangneung are bustling with athletes from around the world,... ready to put in their best possible performance on the ice or snow.
Even though the opening cermeony is still a day-and-a-half away, a number of sporting disciplines have already started their qualification rounds.
For more, let's connect to our Lee Ji-won, who is standing by at the Gangneung Curling Centre.
Ji-won, so most of us we expecting the sporting action to start this weekend, but we got a headstart?
Hi Mark, the first games of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics started this morning,... with four round robin preliminary rounds of the mixed doubles curling.
Over the next four days, eight countries, including South Korea, the United States and Finland, will compete to qualify for the medal round.
The game has been added to the Olympics for the first time this year, so we're still unsure who's likely to be standing on the medal podium in the coming days.
Team Korea got off to the best possible start though.
They beat Finland in the first game, and will take on China this evening.
The Men's individual normal hill qualification for Ski Jumping will also start tonight at the Alpensia Ski Jumping Centre in PyeongChang.
Sounds like some exciting stuff lined up for the day. Well, here in Seoul, we've been seeing freezing temperatures, and I'm guessing it's worse for you guys in the mountains. But can you still feel the Olympic buzz despite the biting cold?
Mark, it was freezing cold earlier this week,... but starting yesterday the temperature has improved a lot.... thankfully.
It now ranges somewhere in the low negatives here in Gangneung.
And despite today being a weekday,... a lot of people came to watch the games and cheer for their teams.
I was able to talk to some of the spectators who came to watch, let's have a look.
"It's a once-in-a-lifetime experience to watch these kinds of major global sporting events in Gangwon-do Province, so we came to check it out. It made me feel that the Olympics has started and I'm very excited "
"It was really cool to watch the athletes compete We were really happy that we won the first match. I don't know much about curling, but it was really intense and the atmosphere was really great so I had a lot of fun."
The excitement is expected to build throughout the day, as there will be various performances and events held later,... or even as we speak,... including the Olympic torch relay.
The torch will visit different parts of Gangneung and the city's major tourist attractions today, like Gyeongpo Beach, before it finally heads to Pyeongchang and the Olympic Plaza for Friday's opening ceremony.
That's all from me for now.
Back to you Mark.