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Where is Pyeongchang?

Part 1 :

1. Label the capital of South

Korea.

2. Label Pyeongchang.

3. Label Gangneung.

Pyeongchang Mountain Cluster Gangneung Coastal Cluster

Part 2 : Complete the chart and find out where each winter sport will be played .

Rachel Homan

Date of Birth : April 28th, 1989Age : 28Height : 5’6Home Province : Ontario

Rachel Homan is the skipper, the captain, of her curling team. Her team includes

Emma Miskew, Joanne Courtney, and Lisa Weagle. Emma Miskew and Rachel

Homan have been teammates since the age of 11. She led her team to the gold

medal at the 2017 World’s Curling Championship. It was her third appearance in

the World’s Curling Championship where she won a bronze and silver medal. She

started curling at the age of 5 and started to compete in competitions at the age of

12. She participated in the Canada Winter games in 2007 where she won a gold

medal.

Justine Dufour-Lapointe

Date of Birth : April 28th, 1989Age : 28Height : 5’6Home Province : Ontario

Justine Dufour-Lapointe is the youngest of the three Dufour-Lapointe sisters

(Maxime and Chloe). Justine’s first Winter Olympic Games was in Sochi 2014. The

sisters became the 3rd set of sisters to participate in the same individual event at

the Olympic Games. She won a gold medal in freestyle skiing (moguls) and her

sister, Chloe, won the silver. Chloe and Justine, with their gold and silver win,

became the 3rd set of sisters to win both 1st and 2nd place in the Winter Olympic

Games. She started skiing at the age of 8. Her parents gave her cookies to ski with

her sisters. Justine always wears unicorn socks when she is competing. She has

won two bronzes, a silver and a gold medal for freestyle skiing (moguls) in the FIS

World Championships

Max Parrot

Date of Birth : June 6th, 1994Age : 23Height : 5’9Home Province : Quebec

Max Parrot is from the region of Bromont, Quebec. He is the son of Alain Parrot,

alpine skier and water ski jump champion. At the age of 10, Max Parrot changed

from skiing to snowboarding. At the age of 16, he won 3rd place at the St-Sauveur

Shakedown and it is at this moment he became a professional snowboarder. In

2014, Max participated in the Winter Olympic Games for snowboarding (slopestyle)

and won 5th overall. He won a silver medal in 2015 at the X Games in Aspen. In

2016 and 2017, he won back-to-back gold medals at the X Games in Norway. He

landed the first ever switch quadruple underflip in big air competition.

Alex Harvey

Date of Birth : September 7th, 1988Age : 29Height : 6’0Home Province : Quebec

Alex Harvey was introduced to cross-country skiing at the age of 3. His father is the

legendary cross-country skier Pierre Harvey (4- time Olympian for cross-country

and cycling). Alex Harvey participated in Vancouver 2010 and Sochi 2014 Winter

Olympic Games. In 2011, Alex Harvey and his teammate Devon Kershaw won a

gold medal for team sprint at the World Championships. They became the first

Canadian men who would to ever reach the podium for cross-country skiing. In

2013, he became the first Canadian man to win an individual medal with his bronze

medal at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships.

Kailie Humphries

Date of Birth : September 4th, 1985Age : 32Height : 5’6Home Province : Alberta

Kailie Humphries is from Calgary, Alberta. She has participated in two Winter

Olympic games (Vancouver 2010 and Sochi 2014) in bobsleigh. In the Vancouver

2010, Kailie and her teammate, Heather Moyse, won a gold medal. They became

the first Canadian bobsleigh team to ever win gold. In Sochi 2014, they won a gold

medal by winning by .10 of a second. Kailie and Heather were named the flag

bearers for the Sochi closing ceremonies. Kailie Humphries was named the 2014

winner of the Lou Marsh award as Canadian athlete of the year.

Charles Hamelin

Date of Birth : April 14th, 1984Age : 33Height : 5’7Home Province : Quebec

Charles Hamelin is from Ste-Julie, Quebec. Charles Hamelin first sport was

baseball but got into speed skating at the age of 9 after seeing it and thinking it

looked cool. His little brother, Francois Hamelin, will also be participating in the

PyeongChang Winter games. He is participating in his 4th Olympic Games. His

first Olympic Games were Turin 2006. He has won 4 Olympic medals, three gold

medals and one silver. He is the most decorated, has the most medals, male

Winter Olympian for Team Canada. In the 2016-17 season, he won 32

championship titles including 9 gold medals.

Marie-Philip Poulin

Date of Birth : March 28th, 1991Age : 27Height : 5’5Home Province : Quebec

Marie-Philip Poulin is from Beauceville, Quebec. She joined the national team

program in 2007 and has been on the team ever since. She has been in three

Olympic Winter Games : Vancouver, Sotchi, and PyeongChang. She was only 18

years old during the Vancouver Olympics in 2010 where she scored the two goals

in the gold medal match against the USA. In Sotchi, she was Canada’s leading

scorer with three goals and two assists. One of these goals led to the team tying

the game in the last minute of the Gold Medal game against USA and would again

score the winning goal to give Canada their 4th straight Olympic Gold medal. She

was nominated captain of the women’s hockey team for the national team in

PyeongChang.

Marianne St-Gelais

Date of Birth : February 17th, 1990Age : 28Height : 5’3”Home Province : Quebec

Marianne St-Gelais is one of the best 500m short track speed skaters in the world

and was ranked 1st in the 2016-17 season in the 500 metres. In 2009, she started

skating in the senior competitions for Team Canada after a successful junior career

and winning a gold medal in the the 2009 Junior World Championships. She

participated in the Vancouver and Sochi Olympic Games and will be going to her

third Olympics in PyeongChang. In Vancouver, she won two silver medals in the

500 m and the 1000m. In Sotchi, she would win another silver medal as part of the

3000m relay team.

Mark McMorris

Date of Birth :December 9th, 1993 Age : 25Height : 5’9Home Province : Saskatchewan

Mark McMorris is a snowboarder from Regina, Saskatchewan. He is always

looking to improve snowboarding and in 2011 he did just that by being the first

snowboarder to land a backside triple cork 1440. He was part of Team Canada in

the Sochi Games in 2014. Two weeks before Sotchi, McMorris would break his

ribs in the X Games in Aspen. He snowboarded through pain and would go on

and win an Olympic bronze medal. In March 2017, McMorris would suffer a

horrific accident while snowboarding in the mountains. He fractured his jaw, left

arm, pelvis, ribs, ruptured spleen and collapsed lung; however, this will not stop

McMorris for going to his second Olympic Games in PyeongChang.

Alex Gough

Date of Birth : May 12th, 1987Age : 31Height : 5’6”Home Province : Quebec

Alex Gough is a veteran member of Canada’s luge team and was part of the

national team in both the Vancouver and Sochi Olympic Games. She competes

in singles and in the team relay. In 2011, she became the first canadian luger to

win a gold medal at the World Cup Race breaking a 105-race streak held by the

Germans. She is currently ranked in the top 5 female lugers in the world. In

2014, she finished 4th in the singles event which is the best any Canadian Luger

has done before. She would participate in the relay team event where the

Canadian team would place 4th. She is working on improving the sport and

making Canada one of the best in luge.

Mikael Kingsbury

Date of Birth : July 24th, 1992Age : 25Height : 5’7”Home Province : Quebec

Mikael Kingsbury is a freestyle mogul skier for team Canada. In 2010 at the

Vancouver Olympics, Mikael witnessed Alexandre Bilodeau win a gold medal.

After the games, Mikael was inspired and competed in the FIS World Cup 2010

where he won Rookie of the Year. The following season, he went on to win 13

World Cup medals (8 gold, 4 silver, and 1 bronze) and won the Crystal Globe as

the overall World Cup champion. He was just under 20 years old making him the

youngest to win the Crystal Globe. In 2014, Mikael Kingsbury competed in the

Sochi Olympic Games where he won a silver medal behind Alexandre Bilodeau.

Tessa Virtue

Date of Birth : May 17th, 1989Age : 29Height : 5’4”Home Province : Ontario

Tessa Virtue and her partner, Scott Moir, have been competing together since

they were little children in Ontario. Tessa and Scott would make their Olympic

debut in 2010 at the Vancouver Winter Games. At the Vancouver Games, Scott

and Tessa went on to win a gold medal making them the youngest ice dancing

partners to win a gold medal. Tessa was 20 years old at the time. Tessa

competed with a leg injury which made walking very painful. In the fall of 2010,

she had surgery on her leg to relieve some pain. Scott and Tessa competed

again in Sochi, in 2014, where they won two silver medals (team and ice

dancing). In 2016, they moved their training base to Montreal under their new

coaches Marie-France Dubreuil and Patrice Lauzon.

Scott Moir

Date of Birth : September 22nd, 1987Age : 30Height : 5’7Home Province : Ontario

Scott Moir and his partner, Tessa Virtue, have been competing together since

they were little children in Ontario. Tessa and Scott would make their Olympic

debut in 2010 at the Vancouver Winter Games. At the Vancouver Games, Scott

and Tessa went on to win a gold medal making them the youngest ice dancing

partners to win a gold medal. Scott was 22 years old at the time. Scott and Tessa

competed again in Sochi, in 2014, where they won two silver medals (team and

ice dancing). In 2016, they moved their training base to Montreal under their new

coaches Marie-France Dubreuil and Patrice Lauzon. They were undefeated in

the 2016-17 competing season. They will be competing again in PyeongChang.

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