SOUTH AFRICA: OLYMPICS: IOC President Jacques Rogge announces that the South Korean city of Pyeongchang will host the 2018 Winter Olympics

Record ID: 455187

  • Title: SOUTH AFRICA: OLYMPICS: IOC President Jacques Rogge announces that the South Korean city of Pyeongchang will host the 2018 Winter Olympics
  • Date: 7th July 2011
  • Summary: PYEONGCHANG DELEGATES CELEBRATING
  • Embargoed: 22nd July 2011 13:00
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  • Location: South Africa, South Africa
  • Country: South Africa
  • Topics: Sports
  • Reuters ID: LVA9VKVLCM9QJ8IB5ERX0G945AYS
  • Story Text: Pyeongchang of South Korea won the right to host the 2018 Winter Olympics on Wednesday (July 6), comprehensively winning a vote by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) over rivals Munich of Germany and France's Annecy.
    IOC President Jacques Rogge announced Pyeongchang's victory at the IOC's session in Durban.
    It will be the first time a Korean city has staged the Winter Games and only the third time it will have been held in Asia.
    The Pyeongchang delegation in Durban cheered and chanted "Korea, Korea" after Rogge announced the decision.
    Pyeongchang narrowly missed victory in each of the last two Winter Olympic votes, losing out to Vancouver of Canada for the 2010 Games and to the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi for 2014.
    The Koreans put in a determined bid, stressing their virtues of perseverance and patience, and employed their country's President Lee Mying-bak and Olympic women's figure skating champion Kim Yuna to persuade and charm the IOC.
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