Question

The Winter Olympics 2018 was held at:
1. Vancouver, Canada
2. PyeongChang, South Korea
3. Sochi, Russia
4. Beijing, China

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 2 : PyeongChang, South Korea

The correct answer is PyeongChang, South Korea.

• The Winter Olympics 2018 was held in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

• It was the first time South Korea has hosted a Winter Olympics. 
• Winter Olympics includes events like alpine skiing, biathlon, cross-country skiing, freestyle skiing, Nordic combined, ski jumping, and snowboard. The rest take place on ice: curling, bobsled, figure skating, hockey, luge, short track, skeleton, and speed skating.
• A total of  2,925 athletes from 92 countries participated in the event.
• Pyeongchang is the capital of South Korea.

 

• Olympics:
  • Olympic Games were started in 776 B.C. on Mount Olympus in the honour of Greek God ‘Zeus’.
  • The Olympic motto is “Citius Altius Fortius” (faster, higher, stronger).
  • The modern Olympic Games started in Athens, the capital of Greece on 6 April 1896 with great efforts made by Pierre de Coubertin of France.
  • The Olympic Games are organized after every four years.
  • The Head Office of the International Olympic Committee is in Lausanne (Switzerland).
  • The first Indian player who participated in the Olympic Games was an Anglo-Indian ‘Norman Pritchard’, who took part in the Second Olympic Games in 1900 and won two Silver medals in Athletics.
  • India took part in Olympics for the first time in 1928 (in Amsterdam Olympics).
  • In the Olympics, India has won the hockey title a maximum of eight times.