Less than a month to go until the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea - it starts on 9 February. What's happened so far?
• Three Nigerian women have qualified in their bobsled for the Winter Olympics, the first time any team from Africa has competed in the event.
• North Korea reopened some diplomatic ties with the South, wishing them well for the games and confirming that they will send qualified athletes and a delegation.
• Russia are of course banned due to state-sponsored doping, but athletes who qualify and can satisfy the authorities that they are clean can compete as Olympic Athletes from Russia (OAR). But even athletes with doping bans are competing in qualifying events, as described here.
I'd forgotten how bad it looks when a bobsled overturns, I looked at a video of the bobsled track for these games, which was used last year in a world cup event. Here's Canada's men going over. They slide and bump their heads along the side for a long time. And then when one of them gets out after it stops, his act of pressing on the sled sends it sliding back up the other way again.
But then I suppose the Winter Olympics are full of moments that make you go 'ouch'.
BBC seems to have extensive rights, hopefully with choice of events online.
• Three Nigerian women have qualified in their bobsled for the Winter Olympics, the first time any team from Africa has competed in the event.
• North Korea reopened some diplomatic ties with the South, wishing them well for the games and confirming that they will send qualified athletes and a delegation.
• Russia are of course banned due to state-sponsored doping, but athletes who qualify and can satisfy the authorities that they are clean can compete as Olympic Athletes from Russia (OAR). But even athletes with doping bans are competing in qualifying events, as described here.
I'd forgotten how bad it looks when a bobsled overturns, I looked at a video of the bobsled track for these games, which was used last year in a world cup event. Here's Canada's men going over. They slide and bump their heads along the side for a long time. And then when one of them gets out after it stops, his act of pressing on the sled sends it sliding back up the other way again.
But then I suppose the Winter Olympics are full of moments that make you go 'ouch'.
BBC seems to have extensive rights, hopefully with choice of events online.
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