Tomorrow, the Opening Ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics will take place in Pyeongchang, South Korea, kicking off more than two weeks of winter-sports action in the Taebaek Mountains. Contractors have been finishing venues and support structures, course workers have been grooming the slopes and tracks, volunteers have been greeting international teams as they arrive, athletes have been settling in and training, and the stage is nearly set. Before the opening, a collection of images of the preparation and training in Pyeongchang over the past several weeks.
Pyeongchang Preview: Ready for the Winter Olympics
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From left: France's snowboarders Sophie Rodriguez, Mirabelle Thovex, and Clemence Grimal pose at the end of a press conference at the French house in Pyeongchang on February 8, 2018. #
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Statues featuring different winter sport disciplines are attached to the Olympic Cauldron for the upcoming 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games at the Alpensia resort, photographed on February 7, 2018. #
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Team Canada's Marie-Philip Poulin and Haley Irwin pose for a photo during a women's hockey training session at Kwandong Hockey Center in Gangneung, South Korea, on February 8, 2018. #
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Maren Hammerschmidt of Germany skis during the biathlon women's 7.5-kilometer sprint official training at the Alpensia Biathlon Center on February 7, 2018. The device in her mouth is a humidity and heat exchanger made to capture the heat and moisture of exhaled breath and use it to warm and humidify inhaled cold air. #
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