Capturing the Passion of the Winter Olympics
After four long years waiting for the 2018 Winter Olympics inย Pyeongchang, South Korea, it’s sadly coming to an end with closing ceremonies on Sunday. This Olympics has included 2,952 athletes from 92 different countries facing off in 102 events across 15 different sports. It’s been a jam-packed two weeks full of amazing athletes and memorable moments.
Capturing these moments in action is a skill and we are lucky to have such wonderful coverage of these events. These images capture the passion, drive, concentration, competition, and camaraderie of the athletes featured in them. You can see the highest highs and the lowest lows – all the emotions that truly embody the Olympics.ย
Pyeongchang had so many remarkable moments to choose from, here are just a handful of our favorites (in no special order) that tugged on our heart strings and made us say “WOW!”
#FigureSkating Ladies Single Skating Free Skating :
Alina Zagitova #OAR #gold
Evgenia Medvedeva #OAR #silver
Kaetlyn Osmond #CAN #bronze
๐Congrats! ๐ #PyeongChang2018 #Olympics pic.twitter.com/1L4zVkU4hQ— The Olympic Games (@Olympics) February 23, 2018
https://twitter.com/NBCOlympics/status/967043958009458691
#Gold for #CAN! @SamGirardCAN takes the first place in men's #shorttrackskating 1000m! ๐๐๐ John-Henry Krueger #USA is #silver and Yira Seo #KOR #bronze. Congrats! #PyeongChang2018 #Olympics pic.twitter.com/5KqmuUOgFs
— The Olympic Games (@Olympics) February 17, 2018
#Gold medal for team #KOR! Sungbin Yun takes the first place in men's #Skeleton! Congratulations! #PyeongChang2018 #Olympics pic.twitter.com/YSFmZxufgK
— The Olympic Games (@Olympics) February 16, 2018
This is so cool. ๐ #Snowboard @fissnowboard pic.twitter.com/D8VGr2bBPP
— The Olympic Games (@Olympics) February 20, 2018
https://twitter.com/Olympics/status/962685483116527619
Tonight, the final heats of Women's Bobsleigh will begin! โจ See which nation goes out as Champions! ๐ฅ #PyeongChang2018 #Bobsleigh ์ค๋ ๋ฐค, ์ฌ์ ๋ด ์ฌ๋ ์ด 2์ธ์น์์ ๋ฉ๋ฌ์ ์ฃผ์ธ์ ๊ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ 3, 4์ฐจ ์ฃผํ์ด ์์๋ฉ๋๋ค!โ๏ธ #8์40๋ถ #์ฌ๋ผ์ด๋ฉ์ผํฐ pic.twitter.com/rg8DMFQnCD
— Gangwon2024 (@gangwon2024) February 21, 2018
#Gold medal to team #HUN in Men's #ShortTrackSkating 5000m Relay with an Olympic record time of 6:31.971! ๐ The #silver goes to #CHN and #CAN takes the #bronze. Congratulations! ๐๐๐ #PyeongChang2018 #Olympics pic.twitter.com/uLCjQlAbaI
— The Olympic Games (@Olympics) February 22, 2018
#Gold medal to #NOR in men's 500m #speedskating! Havard Lorentzen takes the first place with an Olympic record! Min Kyu Cha #KOR takes #silver and Tingyu Gao #CHN #bronze. Congratulations! ๐๐๐ #Olympics #PyeongChang2018 pic.twitter.com/YNapGmASPr
— The Olympic Games (@Olympics) February 19, 2018
https://twitter.com/olympicchannel/status/967038790748590081
New World Record for Dajing Wu #CHN in men's #ShortTrackSkating 500m! ๐ฑ 39.800 Congratulations! ๐๐ #PyeongChang2018 #Olympics pic.twitter.com/uodCe4zxfF
— The Olympic Games (@Olympics) February 22, 2018
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And of course stay tuned for the closing ceremonies on Sunday that will include performances by K-Pop singers CL and EXO, a march of the 2018 class of Olympians, and the passing of the torch to Beijing, host of the next Winter Games in 2022.
