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The 2018 Winter Olympics, officially the XXIII Olympic Winter Games and also known as PyeongChang 2018, were an international winter multi-sport event held between 9 and 25 February 2018 in Pyeongchang, South Korea, with the opening rounds for certain events held on 8 February, a day before the opening ceremony.
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- 1 2 "[Olympics] North Korean short track skater injured in training". The Korea Times . Yonhap. 2018-02-03. Retrieved 2018-02-11.
- ↑ "Short Track Speed Skating - Results - Olympic Winter Games 2018 - Men - 1,500m - Heats". shorttrack.sportresult.com. ISU. 2018. Retrieved 2018-02-11.
- ↑ "Short-track speedskater Choe Un Song, North Korea's first Pyeongchang competitor, eliminated in 1,500-meter heats". The Japan Times . AFP-JIJI. 10 February 2018. Archived from the original on 2018-02-11. Retrieved 2018-02-11.
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