Summury

I. Article presentation

II. Pyeongchang 2018 Olympics Games presentation

III. Reasons why this city was chosen rather than an other one?

I. Article presentation

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/07/sports/2018-winter-olympics-go-to-south-korea.html

I choose an article about Winter Olympics Games 2018 written by Jéré Longman and Chloe Sang-Hun. It was published on July 6, 2011 in the New York Times. So this article was posting some time ago because it was the day after the Pyeongchang election for hosting the 2018 Olympics. I preferred take an old article to come back to the raisons why Pyeongchang was elected to host the next Winter Olympics Games.

II. Pyeongchang 2018 Olympics Games presentation

On July 5, 2011, Pyeongchang was announced as the host city for the 2018 Winter Olympics. So in 2018, Winter Olympics Games will go to Pyeongchang, in south Korea, a city situated about 100 miles east of Seoul.

Pyeongchang was a persistent candidate. In fact the city finished second to Vacnouver and to Sochi in 2010 and 2014. In 2018, they won with 63 votes, compared with 25 for Munich and 7 for Annecy. “Patience and perseverance have prevailed.” said Jacques Rogge, the president of the I.O.C (International Olympic Comunitee). Pyeongchang will be the third Asian city to be elected, after Sapporo in 1972 and Nagano 1998.

The logo : The emblem for the Games was established on 3 May 2013. It is a stylized representation of hangul letters representing the initial sounds of Pyeongchang. The left symbol is said to represent the Korean philosophical trinity of heaven, earth and humanity and the right symbol to represent a crystal of ice.

III. Reasons why this city was chosen rather than an other one?

1/ All events within 30-minutes’s drive from Pyeongchang

Pyeongchang is in a mountainous region where there aren’t a lot of inhabitants so there are many free spaces. Thus, it is easier to build new infrastrucutures for Winter Games in this type of place than in others places with a lot of inhabitants and no space to build.

2/ Lee Myung-bak traveled to Durban

Lee Myung-bak, the 10th President of South Korea from 2008 to 2013, traveled to Durban to make a personal pitch for the 2018 Games, Durban being the place where the election were done.

3/ South Korea had not previously hosted the Winter Games

An other argument is the chance to further expand the popularity of winter sports in a country that had not previously hosted the Winter Olympics. South Korea had just hosted the 1988 Summer Olympics Games.

4/ Give Asia another chance

19 of the previous 21 winter Games had been held in Europe and North America: It was time to give Asia another chance. In fact, in 1972 and 1998, the winter games were in Japan and in 2022, it will be in China.

5/ Give new hope for developing countries

Park Yong-sung, head of the South Korean Olympic Committee, said that Pyeongchang’s victory “gave new hope for those developing countries, because in the past we think the Olympics are only for the rich and big countries.”

6/ Give opportunity to new peoples to access to the Winter Games.

Cho Yang-ho, the bid committee’s chairman, described as an opportunity to “expand winter sports to new regions of the world and give opportunity to new peoples to access to the Winter Games.”

7/ South Korea had already shown its ability to organize major international sporting events

South Korea had already shown its ability to organize major international sporting events: In addition to being the host of the 1988 Summer Olympics, South Korea was the co-host with Japan of the 2002 World Cup.

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