Editing 2018 Winter Olympics (section)

==Bidding and election==
{{Main|Bids for the 2018 Winter Olympics}}
[[file:Announced PyeongChang Card.jpg|thumb|Pyeongchang's award card, announced by the [[IOC]]'s honorary president [[Jacques Rogge]]]]
[[file:월정사1.jpg|thumb|[[Woljeongsa]] in [[Pyeongchang]], [[Gangwon Province, South Korea|Gangwon-do]]]]
[[file:오대산_상원사.jpg|thumb|[[Sangwonsa]] in [[Pyeongchang]], [[Gangwon Province, South Korea|Gangwon-do]]]]

[[Pyeongchang County|Pyeongchang]] was elected as the host city at the [[123rd IOC Session]] in [[Durban]], South Africa, on 6&nbsp;July 2011, earning the necessary majority of at least 48 votes in just one round of voting.<ref name=ESPN20110706>{{cite web|url=http://www.espn.com/olympics/news/story?id=6742361|title=Pyeongchang picked to host 2018 Winter Games|date=6 July 2011|website=ESPN.com|access-date=6 February 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180207005233/http://www.espn.com/olympics/news/story?id=6742361|archive-date=7 February 2018|df=dmy-all}}</ref> Winning 63 of the 95 votes cast in the first secret ballot, Pyeongchang received more votes than its competitors combined, overwhelmingly beating [[Munich]] in Germany (also hosted the [[1972 Summer Olympics]]), which received 25 votes, and [[Annecy]] in France, which received seven.<ref name=NYT20110706>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/07/sports/2018-winter-olympics-go-to-south-korea.html|title=2018 Winter Games to Be Held in Pyeongchang, South Korea|last1=Longman|first1=Jeré|date=6 July 2011|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=7 June 2017|last2=Sang-hun|first2=Choe|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170804175732/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/07/sports/2018-winter-olympics-go-to-south-korea.html|archive-date=4 August 2017|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref name="bidresults">{{cite web|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/breaking/chi-vote-for-2018-winter-games-over-in-one-round-20110706-story.html|title=Pyeongchang wins 2018 Winter Olympics|first=Philip|last=Hersh|date=6 July 2011|website=[[Chicago Tribune]]|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170409200444/http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/breaking/chi-vote-for-2018-winter-games-over-in-one-round-20110706-story.html|archive-date=9 April 2017|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

This was South Korea's third consecutive bid for the Winter Olympics, having been defeated by [[Vancouver]] and [[Sochi]] respectively in the final rounds of voting for the [[2010 Winter Olympics|2010]] and [[2014 Winter Olympics|2014]] Games.<ref name=NYT20110706 /> Earlier, PyeongChang lost to Vancouver with a difference of 3 votes in bidding the 2010 Olympics, and lost to Sochi with a difference of 4 votes in bidding the 2014 Olympics. Since then, South Korea made great progress in preparing to host the Winter Olympics and succeeded in hosting the 2018 Olympics after three challenges.<ref name="bidresults" />

After winning the election, Pyeongchang became the third Asian city to host the Winter Olympics.<ref name=ESPN20110706 /><ref name=NYT20110706 /> Also, South Korea became the second country in Asia to host both the Summer ([[1988 Summer Olympics]]) and Winter Olympics. 

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|+ 2018 Winter Olympics bidding results<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/pyeongchang-2018|title=IOC's PyeongChang 2018 Page (look at More About the Election tab)|website=[[International Olympic Committee]]|date=6 July 2011|access-date=22 September 2020|df=dmy-all|archive-date=28 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170528190634/https://www.olympic.org/pyeongchang-2018|url-status=live}}</ref>
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! City
! Nation
! Votes
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||'''[[Pyeongchang County|Pyeongchang]]'''||'''{{KOR}}'''
|align=center|'''63'''
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||[[Munich]]||{{GER}}
|align=center|25
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||[[Annecy]]||{{FRA}}
|align=center|7
|}