2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang
XXIII Winter, 2018 will take place in Pyeongchang, South Korea, between 9th and 25th February 2018. Pyeongchang won the right to host the 2018 Games after winning the majority votes at a International Olympic Committee’s 123rd session in Durban, South Africa defeating Annecy (France) and Munich (Germany) in the bidding process.
Winter Olympics Games will also be the first time the Winter Olympics Games held in Asia (Except Russia) since the 1998 Nagano Olympics. The first celebration of the Winter Olympics which occur every four years was held in Chamonix, France, in 1924 while most recent winter Olympics took place in 2010 Vancouver (Canada), and the next in 2014 will be hosted by Sochi, Russia.
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