The 2018 Winter Olympics will feature 102 events in 15 sports, making it the first Winter Olympics to surpass 100 medal events. Four new disciplines in existing sports were introduced to the Winter Olympic programme in Pyeongchang, including big air snowboarding, mixed doubles curling, mass start speed skating, and mixed team alpine skiing.
The very first time since 1998, the National Hockey League will not provide accommodations (including a break in the season for all teams during the Olympics) to allow its players to participate in the men's ice hockey tournament. The NHL's decision stemmed from their demands that the IOC cover the money necessary for insuring the NHL players who participate in the Games. Although it did pay to insure NHL players in Sochi, the IOC was unwilling to achieve this for Pyeongchang, and was concerned that the NHL's demand could set a precedent for other professional sports bodies to follow. NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman added that a factor in the decision could be that the IOC did not allow the NHL to promote the involvement of its players in the Olympics.[22][23][24] The NHL secured the cooperation of the International Ice Hockey Federation and the IOC, who agreed to establish a blacklist forbidding national teams from nominating or accepting players under NHL contract to their Olympic rosters.
Participating National Olympic Committees:
A total of 95 teams have qualified more then one athlete so far, with 92 of them expected to compete. Six nations are scheduled to make their Winter Olympics debut: Ecuador, Eritrea, Kosovo, Malaysia, Nigeria and Singapore.
Athletes from the Cayman Islands, Dominica and Peru qualified to compete, however all three National Olympic Committees returned the quota spots back to the International Ski Federation (FIS).
Under an agreement with North Korea, its qualified athletes will be permitted to cross the Korean Demilitarized Zone into South Korea and compete in the games.[28][29][30] The two nations will march together under the Korean Unification Flag during the opening ceremony.[31][32] A Unified Korea women's ice hockey team will also compete under a separate IOC country code designation (COR); in all other sports, there might be a separate North Korea team and a separate South Korea team. See North Korea at the 2018 Winter Olympics for further details.
On 5 December 2017 the IOC announced that the Russian Olympic Committee was suspended due to Russian doping controversy. Individual athletes who qualified and can demonstrate they have complied with the IOC's doping regulations will instead compete as "Olympic Athletes from Russia" (OAR) under a neutral flag to provide a source Olympic anthem played in any ceremony.
Participating National Olympic Committees
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Albania (2)
Andorra (5)
Argentina (6)
Armenia (3)
Australia (51)
Austria (105)
Azerbaijan (1)
Belarus (33)
Belgium (21)
Bermuda (1)
Bolivia (2)
Bosnia and Herzegovina (4)
Brazil (9)
Bulgaria (21)
Canada (226)
Chile (7)
China (81)
Colombia (4)
Croatia (19)
Cyprus (1)
Czech Republic (95)
Denmark (17)
Ecuador (1)
Eritrea (1)
Estonia (22)
Finland (106)
France (107)
Georgia (4)
Germany (156)
Ghana (1)
Great Britain (59)
Greece (4)
Hong Kong (1)
Hungary (19)
Iceland (5)
India (2)
Iran (4)
Ireland (5)
Israel (10)
Italy (122)
Jamaica (3)
Japan (124)
Kazakhstan (46)
Kenya (1)
Korea[a] (35)
North Korea[a] (10)
South Korea[a] (121) (host)
Kosovo (1)
Kyrgyzstan (2)
Latvia (34)
Lebanon (3)
Liechtenstein (3)
Lithuania (9)
Luxembourg (1)
Macedonia (3)
Madagascar (1)
Malaysia (2)
Malta (1)
Mexico (4)
Moldova (2)
Monaco (3)
Mongolia (2)
Montenegro (3)
Morocco (2)
Netherlands (33)
New Zealand (21)
Nigeria (3)
Norway (109)
Pakistan (2)
Philippines (2)
Poland (62)
Portugal (2)
Puerto Rico (1)
Romania (27)
San Marino (1)
Serbia (4)
Singapore (1)
Slovakia (56)
Slovenia (71)
South Africa (1)
Spain (12)
Sweden (119)
Switzerland (170)
Chinese Taipei (4)
Thailand (4)
Timor-Leste (1)
Togo (2)
Tonga (1)
Turkey (8)
Ukraine (33)
United States (241)
Uzbekistan (2)
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