About the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics

The Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics will feature delegations that surprisingly qualified despite not being able to practice winter sports due to unfavorable weather conditions.

Jamaica

This country had a men's bobsleigh team appearance in the Winter Olympics in Calgary 1998. Now, in Pyeongchang 2018, the women's team qualified in the same discipline.

Jazmine Fenlator, Audra Segree, and Carrie Russell secured their spot for Pyeongchang, after achieving a seventh-place finish in the Winterberg stage of the World Cup they competed in December.

Mexico

Our country will have a representation of four athletes:

Sarah Schleper will participate in alpine skiing in the giant slalom.

Robert Franco will be in freestyle skiing.

Germán Madrazo will compete in the 15 Km.

Rodolfo Dickson will be the representative in the giant slalom discipline.

Colombia

It is worth mentioning that the skater Pedro Causil and Sebastian Uprimny, who practices cross-country skiing, and Michael Poettoz, who practices skiing, prepared previously in the United States, as reported by Alberto Galvis, press representative of the Colombian Olympic Committee.

Ecuador

Klaus Jungbluth, the first Ecuadorian to participate in the Winter Olympics, will be in the cross-country skiing event in the 15-kilometer freestyle style. He practiced this discipline on asphalt.

Puerto Rico

The enchanting island will have participation in the skiing event. It is remarkable because this region is known for its high temperatures.

Fun Facts

Latin America has not won any Olympic medals in the history of the Winter Olympics.

The countries with the most gold medals in this competition are Norway, with 107 medals, and the United States, with 96 gold medals.