Winter Olympic Games 2018 Best of Social Media

[dcro 10,210]

Just now, heywoodu said:

 

Martin Rettl? 

 

That's the very one. I never seem to remember coaches' names, no matter how many times I heard them.

[heywoodu 15,253]

2 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

That's the very one. I never seem to remember coaches' names, no matter how many times I heard them.

 

I must admit I only remembered because at first he made me think of none less than Hitler, which made me remember that he is Austrian, so I googled for Austrian skeleton athletes (I knew he is an ex-athlete)  

[phelps 7,742]

55 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

 

I must admit I only remembered because at first he made me think of none less than Hitler, which made me remember that he is Austrian, so I googled for Austrian skeleton athletes (I knew he is an ex-athlete)  

 

well, he is the Olympic Silver medallist from Salt Lake City 2002...not just a former athlete like many others...

[heywoodu 15,253]

25 minutes ago, phelps said:

 

well, he is the Olympic Silver medallist from Salt Lake City 2002...not just a former athlete like many others...

I know, but I was 11 at that time, not following anything else than speed skating  

[Dragon 1,887]

KIM Hyunjun - director, Korean Centre for Disease Control and Prevention

On the number of confirmed norovirus cases:

"As of 6 February we had 32 cases, but today, Wednesday 7 February, we have an additional confirmed 54 cases so the total we have 86 cases of norovirus.

"The most problematic venue is Odaesan Youth Centre and the outbreak centres on that venue. On the 6 (February) we had about 20 confirmed cases and on the 7 (February) we discovered an additional 38 cases in this venue. Odaesan Youth Centre cases, 58 cases have been confirmed.

"On the 6 (February) we had three police officers and nine police officers on the 7th (February) which means we have 12 police officers contracted the virus, and three food preparation staff, all of them in the media village who contracted the virus."

[hckošice 15,028]

Team SVK today

 

at 11:00 AM local time (03:00 CET) during the flag raising ceremony in the Olympic village, it was the turn of Slovak flag and our team to be officially welcomed in the village, altogether with the host country, the Philippines, Azerbaijan and Macedonia.

 

some pics from the ceremony

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also our lone Snowboarding participant Klaudia Medlová (right on the photo) arrived to PyeongChang with her coaches Kjersti Buaas and Channelle Sladics

 

 

 

and our luge team started their official trainings sessions in Alpensia Sliding Center, Katarína Šimoňáková, Jakub Šimoňák and Jozef Ninis

 

 

 

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and few more pics from SVK team today

 

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[dcro 10,210]

1 hour ago, hckosice said:

and few more pics from SVK team today

 

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[heywoodu 15,253]

"That norovirus only makes the ski jumping more fun to watch"