Winter Olympics 2018

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HEERENVEEN, NETHERLANDS – JANUARY 06: Nikola Zdrahalova of Czech Republic competes in the Ladies Allround 500m during day 1 of the European Speed Skating Championships at ice-rink Thialf on January 6, 2017 in Heerenveen, Netherlands. (Photo by Joosep Martinson – ISU/ISU via Getty Images)

Ryazia Allen, Contributor

This year the 2018 winter Olympics are taking place in  PyeongChang,  South Korea.

There are 5 countries in total competing.

Russian athletes are competing as individuals because they are banned.

Olympics is time for the thrill of winning, the agony of defeat and plenty of stories to go around.

Here are just a few.

 

An all women first Jamaican bobsleigh team loses their coach during the olympics.

According to BBC, team officials asked Kiriasis to change her role from driving coach to track performance analyst.]

She wasn’t okay with it so she quit.

She took her bobsleigh with her back to Germany.

Luckily a bar gave the team a bobsleigh.

At the end the women lost the olympics.