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Friday 9 February 2018
Lots of gold medals, sure, but how about those 15,000 eggs

They will unfold — officially, 149 — In Sochi the best
at least — without the Rus- teams were made up of
sians who dominated on NHL players, 149 of them
the ice and snow and in in all. No current players
the backroom of the drug will be in Pyeongchang,
testing labs four years ago after the league decided
in Sochi. And they will take its best interests were not
place amid rising world served by shutting down in
tensions and a last-minute midseason for three weeks
rapprochement of sorts be- like it did the last five Winter
tween the two Koreas that Olympics.
may be as much of a show $900 million — The amount
as the games themselves. of ads NBC has sold for its
Politics are very much in broadcast of the games.
play, but in the end the 14 — The time difference in
Olympics are usually de- hours from New York, which
fined more by numbers is why some of the biggest
than philosophies. prime-time events on NBC
With that in mind, here's will actually take place in
some numbers that might the morning in Korea.
help make sense of it all: 86 — The number of work-
3 — Mikaela Shiffrin's goal ers ill with norovirus a day
is to do what no skier has before opening ceremony.
ever done — win five gold The figure is expected to
medals on the slopes. The rise, forcing organizers to
young American star prob- bring in 900 military person-
ably won't do that, but nel to take the place of sick
Max Parrot, of Canada, trains ahead of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, there's a good chance she or exposed security work-
Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018.
Associated Press can win three, something ers.
skiers have done only three 4 - If it’s a Winter Olym-
By TIM DAHLBERG Moscow Olympics and the rural mountains near the times. Shiffrin is a prohibitive pics there have to be new
PYEONGCHANG, South Ko- Soviets returned the favor North Korean border, with favorite to defend the sla- sports. There are four of
rea (AP) — The world hasn't four years later in Los An- a lot more at stake than lom title she won in Sochi, a them in this Olympics, in-
seen such an intersection geles. The Winter Olympics the glittery medals chased top contender in the giant cluding a mass start speed-
of sports and politics since begin Friday in a rugged by the best ice and snow slalom and the favorite in skating event featuring 24
the U.S. boycotted the 1980 and brutally cold area of athletes in the world. the combined. skaters that has been com-
2 — The number of North pared to a NASCAR race
Korean athletes who quali- on ice.
fied for the Olympics on 168 — Russia is officially
merit. Up to 22 will actu- banned from the Olympics
ally compete in the games, because of a state-spon-
cheered on by a highly sored doping scheme the
choreographed group of country carried out in So-
singers and dancers, along chi. But 168 Russians will still
with the sister of North Ko- compete under a neutral
Located in the Riu Antilles Resort (Formerly the Westin Resort) rean leader Kim Jong Un. flag as “Olympic athletes
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1,500 eggs from a Korean athletes.
GAMES START 8 PM TO THE WEE HOURS distributor for the Games 100 — The perfect number
but a translation mistake Shaun White scored last
caused 15,000 to be deliv- month to give him a spot
1-2.....2-5......5-5 1-3.....2-5......5-5 ered instead. in the snowboard halfpipe.
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fore flaming out in Sochi.
the North Korean border.
CRAPS 4 — The unofficial over-un- 32 — The temperature wa-
der for the number of half-
ter freezes, and also the
ONLY CASINO IN ARUBA TO OFFER 3, 4 & 5 TIME ODDS pipe snowboarders carried forecast for Friday night’s
off the slopes on stretch- opening ceremonies. Or-
ers. White himself was sent ganizers are giving 35,000
SPORTSBOOK to the hospital twice af- fans heated seat cushions,
ter crashes last year, and hand warmers and other
LIVE SIMULCAST OF ALL MAJOR TRACKS defending gold medalist gear to ward off the cold
THROUGHOBRED AND HARNESS Iouri Podladtchikov was in the outdoor stadium,
knocked out in a scary where winds are expected
crash last month at the to make it feel like it is in the
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