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Chile at the 2018 Winter Paralympics

**Chile** sent people to compete at the **2018 Winter Paralympics** in Pyeongchang, South Korea. There were 4 people in para-alpine skiing. The skiers went to races to be allowed to go to South Korea.  Starting in November 2017, they went to 15 races in Europe, the United States and Canada to get ready. Santiago Vega went to the 2014 Winter Paralympics.  Nicolás Bisquert, Diego Seguel and Julio Soto were going to their first Paralympic Games.

## Team 
Chile had 4 people at the 2018 Winter Paralympics.  In the past, Diego Seguel was part of Team Chile at competitions around the world in another sport: para-athletics. All four had 220 points by February 2018.  They needed to have 220 total points or more in the time between when the 2014 Winter Paralympics ended and February 2018.  The team practiced for South Korea at the La Parva Ski Center in Chile. When at La Parva, they lived at the Ski Chile Hotel in Farellones. They worked together for over 170 days before leaving for the Winter Paralympics. Soto was able to compete in the Slalom because of a race in 2017 where he was fifth.  He was the first person from Chile who could go to the South Korea. Soto said he wanted to finish in the top 20 in the Slalom race in Pyeongchang.

When he was 9-years-old, Soto went to school.  He had pain in his legs. He was later told by doctors he had osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer.  To fix it, doctors needed to amputate one of his legs.  He played sports as part of his rehabilitation.  After he finished university, he became a Level 1 Ski Instructor class at the National Ski School.  In 2015, he became of part of Team Chile and represented his country in ski races around the world.

#### Nicolás Bisquert 
Bisquertt went to a ski race in Winter Park in January 2018 with other people from Chile.  Because of past races, he could go to South Korea in two events.  After his races in Winter Park, he could go to Pyeongchang for the Super G. In January 2018, Bisquertt said he wanted to win a medal at the 2018 Winter Paralympics.

Bisquertt had a motorcycle accident when he was a 14-year-old.  The accident fractured his spine.

#### Diego Seguel 
Before the 2018 Winter Paralympics, Diego Seguel went to a ski race in January 2018 in Winter Park.  He finished third in the Giant Slalom. It was the first time he finished in the top three places at an international ski race. Because of his finishes in Winter Park, he could go to the South Korea in the slalom and giant slalom races.

In 2002, Diego Seguel had a snowboarding accident. He was 17-years-old. He got a disability because the accident hurt his spine.  One year after the accident, he started doing para-alpine skiing using a mono-ski. He has competed for Chile every year since 2011.

### Results 
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Uzbekistan at the 2018 Winter Paralympics

**Uzbekistan** sent people  to compete at the **2018 Winter Paralympics** in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Only one skier from Uzbekistan was selected to go.  Yokutkhon Kholbekova () is going to compete in para-Nordic skiing. Saodat Numanova was selected to referee para-alpine skiing events. 2018 is the second time for Uzbekistan going to the Winter Paralympics.

## Team 
Skiers from Uzbekistan were invited to the 2018 Winter Paralympics. Yokutkhon Kholbekova () was the only skier selected.  She competed in para-Nordic skiing. Saodat Numanova was selected to referee para-alpine skiing events.

The table below contains the list of members of people (called "Team Uzbekistan") in the 2018 games.

## History 
Uzbekistan first went to the Winter Paralympic Games in 2014. They sent 2 sportspeople. Ramil Gayazov was the only one who competed. They did not win any medals.

## Para-Nordic skiing 
### Skiers 
Yokutkhon Kholbekova went to a World Cup event in January 2018.

### Schedule 
On 12 March, the 15&nbsp;km race takes place. Standing and vision impaired women race started at 10:00 PM.  The sprint classic qualification took place on 14 March from 10:00 AM – 11:25 AM for both men and women in all classes. It was followed in the afternoon by the semifinals and finals.  The classic race took place on 17 March. The standing and visually impaired women's race took place from 10:00 AM - 12:30.

## References
Iran at the 2018 Winter Paralympics

**Iran** sent people  to compete at the **2018 Winter Paralympics** in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Iran had 2 people at the 2018 Winter Paralympics, 1 man and 1 woman who competed in para-alpine skiing. Elaheh Gholi Fallah was announced as the flag bearer.

## Team 
Iran had 2 people at the 2018 Winter Paralympics, 1 man and 1 woman who competed in para-alpine skiing. Elaheh Gholi Fallah was announced as the flag bearer in late February. She is the first blind person to carry the flag for Iran at the Winter Paralympics.

The table below contains the list of members of people (called "Team Iran") that will be participating in the 2018 Games.

## References
Turkey at the 2018 Winter Paralympics

**Turkey** sent people  to compete at the **2018 Winter Paralympics** in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The country sent one person, alpine skier Mehmet Çekiç. Turkey tried to qualify in other sports, like wheelchair curling.  They just were unable to win spots to the Games. Turkey only made its first Winter Paralympics appearance at the 2014 Games.

## Team 
In December 2017, the National Paralympic Committee of Turkey said one person would go to Pyeongchang.  Alpine skier Mehmet Çekiç was the person selected.  The National Paralympic Committee provided Çekiç with all the resources he needed. This was done with assistance from Turkey's national ski federation. The country wanted to send more people to South Korea for the Games.  People had problems with qualifications for the Games.  The President of the National Paralympic Committee of Turkey said they wanted to send more people to the 2022 Winter Paralympics.  They would work hard to make that happen. Financial problems and being responsibility for 18 sports made securing more positions for Pyeongchang difficult.  The team was coached by Gökçe Ulugay.  It included wheelchair curlers Züleyha Bingöl, Kenan Coşkun, Serpil Arslan , Mesut Güle and Turan Akalın.

## History 
Turkey went to the 2014 Winter Paralympics. It was the first time Turkey competed at the Winter Paralympics. The Winter Sports division of the National Paralympic Committee was created in 2012.  This was two years before the start of the 2014 Winter Paralympics. Esat Hilmi Bayindir earned the right to go. Because of a process to help countries that are underrepresented at the Paralympics, Mehmet Çekiç was invited to participate.  This process is called Bipartite Invitation.

## References
Ukraine at the 2018 Winter Paralympics

**Ukraine** sent people to compete at the **2018 Winter Paralympics** in Pyeongchang, South Korea. People from Ukraine competed in para-alpine skiing, para-Nordic skiing and para-snowboarding. The National Paralympic Committee of Ukraine, Ministry of Youth and Sports of Ukraine and Lifecell helped the team go to the Winter Paralympics.  They gave the team money, clothes and mobile phones.  They also gave money to pay for people to practice for their races.

On the first day of competition, Anatolii Kovalevskyi, Liudmyla Liashenko, Vitaliy Luk'yanenko, Ihor Reptyukh and Oksana Shyshkova all won medals in the biathlon.  The Government of Ukraine gives monetary awards to Paralympic Games medalists.  For the 2018 Winter Paralympics,  dold medalists get USD$125,000, silver medalists get USD$80,000 and bronze medalists get USD$55,000.

## Team 
The first time Ukraine sent people to the Winter Paralympics was in 1998. At the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi, Ukraine was the fourth country by total medals won.  People from Ukraine went to Pyeongchang to compete in  para-alpine skiing, para-Nordic skiing and para-snowboarding. The government gave people UAH 20.2 million in 2017 to practice for the Winter Paralympics.  In 2018, the government gave people UAH 10.27 million.

Lifecell gave mobile phones to members of the team.  The phones could be used in Pyeongchang by people from Ukraine for free.

### Schedule 
On 12 March, the 15&nbsp;km race takes place, with standing and vision impaired women starting at 10:00 PM.  Thee sprint classic qualification takes place on 14 March from 10:00 AM – 11:25 AM for both men and women in all classes. It is followed in the afternoon by the semifinals and finals.  The classic race takes place on 17 March. The standing and visually impaired women's race takes place from 10:00 AM - 12:30.

### Results 
#### Biathlon 
In the men's 7.5&nbsp;km standing race,  Benjamin Daviet of France won gold, Mark Arendz won silver and Ihor Reptyukh of Ukraine won bronze. In the men's 7.5&nbsp;km visually impaired race,  Vitaliy Luk'yanenko of Ukraine won gold, Yury Holub of Belarus won silver and Anatolii Kovalevskyi of Ukraine won bronze.

## References
Sweden at the 2018 Winter Paralympics

**Sweden** sent people  to compete at the **2018 Winter Paralympics** in Pyeongchang, South Korea.  The team has 22 people.  They are competing in  para-alpine skiing, para-Nordic skiing, sledge hockey and wheelchair curling. The Games are being shown on television on SVT.

## Team 
22 people from Sweden competed in the 2018 Winter Paralympics.  People are competing in para-alpine skiing, para-Nordic skiing, sledge hockey and wheelchair curling. New Zealand, Sweden and the United States were the first countries to name people to their teams after sportspeople won spots by November 2017.  The first person named to the team was para-Nordic skier Zebastian Modin. They won 1 gold medal, 2 silver medals and 1 bronze medal.

## Para-alpine skiing 
### Skiers 
Aaron Lindström made the team for the 2018 Games when he was a 17-year-old.

## Para-Nordic skiing 
### Skiers 
Zebastian Modin has problems seeing, and uses a guide skier.

### Roster 
### Schedule and results 
Canada, Norway, Italy and Sweden were in Group A for the sledge hockey competition. Sweden's first game is on 10 March against Canada. They play the United States on 11 March. They play Slovakia on 12 March. They play Great Britain on 12 March.  They play Norway and Germany on 13 March. On 14 March, they play against Finland and South Korea.

## Media coverage 
The Games are being shown on television on SVT.

## References
Switzerland at the 2018 Winter Paralympics

**Switzerland** sent people to compete at the **2018 Winter Paralympics** in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Switzerland has a team of 31 people. Only 13 are sportspeople. They are competing in three sports: para-alpine skiing, para-Nordic skiing and wheelchair curling.

## Team 
The team has 13 people. They are competing in three sports: para-alpine skiing, para-Nordic skiing and wheelchair curling. It is called "Maison des Alpes". Their practice runs in the downhill on 8 and 9 March were cancelled.

The first event on the para-alpine program was the downhill. It started on 10 March, running from 9:30 AM to 1:30 PM. The second event on the program was Super-G. All skiers will raced between 9:30 AM and 1:00 PM on 11 March. The super combined takes place on 13 March. The Super-G part of the event is in the morning. The slalom part is in the afternoon. The slalom event gets underway on 14 March and conclude on 15 March. Women and men both race during the same sessions in the morning. The afternoon sessions start with the women doing their second run. Then the men go.The last para-alpine skiing race of the 2018 Games is the giant slalom. It takes place on 17 - 18 March.  Men and women both race at the same time in the morning sessions.  Women race first in the afternoon sessions, with the men racing a half hour after they end.

### Results 
Theo Gmur won a gold medal in the men's downhill standing race.  Arthur Bauchet of France won silver.  Markus Salcher of Austria won bronze. In the men's Super-G standing race, Theo Gmur of Switzerland won gold, Arthur Bauchet of France won silver, and Markus Salcher of Austria won bronze.
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; Women

## Para-Nordic skiing 
### Results 
; Men's distance

## Wheelchair curling 
The Switzerland national wheelchair curling team members are Felix Wagner, Claudia Hüttenmoser-Pfister, Marcel Bodenmann, Beatrix Blauel, and Hans Burgener. Wagner is the skip.

## References
Slovenia at the 2018 Winter Paralympics

**Slovenia** sent people  to compete at the **2018 Winter Paralympics** in Pyeongchang, South Korea.  One para-alpine skier was named to the team.  The person was 16-year-old Jernej Slivnik.  He had an injury a few months before the Winter Games started.  He is coached by Roman Podlipnik.  While he was named to the team in 2017, he met all the criteria to compete at the Games in January 2018.

## Team 
The table below contains the list of members of people (called "Team Slovenia") that will be participating in the 2018 Games.

## Para-alpine skiing 
### Skiers 
16-year-old Jernej Slivnik had a shoulder injury five months before the 2018 Games.  He started practicing again at a ski resort in Slovenia in December 2017.  His goal was to be prepared for the 2018 World Cup in Kranjska Gora.  The competition was one of seven World Cup races before the season before the Games.  He was coached by Roman Podlipnik.  He also trained with Slovene deaf skier Anja Drev. His coach was happy in late December. Slivnik was recovering faster than expected from his shoulder injury.  After his first run in Zagreb, he was in thirteenth position.  He did not finish his second run.  His coach was still happy with his performance. At the World Cup in  Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, he finished his races.  The World Cup was only a few days after the World Cup in Zagreb.  While he finished thirteenth, his finishing the World Cup race was very important.  It meant he completed all the things required of him to compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics.  After the race, his coach said, ""I congratulate Jernejo, because I know he has not been able to do it in the last few weeks. He was injured, but he did not finish the race in Zagreb, even though he was skiing well. Depending on the layout and the conditions on the track it worked well. I expect that now the preparations for the Paralympic Games will be relaxed and fully dedicated."

## References
South Korea at the 2018 Winter Paralympics

**South Korea** sent people to compete at the **2018 Winter Paralympics** in Pyeongchang, South Korea.  South Korea and North Korea will enter the Opening Ceremonies as one team, walking behind a unification flag.  South Korea is competing in sledge hockey.

## Competing together 
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) said North Korea was going to participate in the Winter Games for the first time.  The North Koreans will competing under a Korean unification flag like their delegation for the 2018 Winter Olympics did.  This is the first time that North Korea went to the Winter Paralympics. The country had gone to the 2012 Summer Paralympics and the 2016 Summer Paralympics. On 1 January 2018, Kim Jong-un said he wanted to have North Koreans competing at the 2018 Winter Olympics and Paralympics. North Koreans had a meeting with the IPC in Lusanne, Switzerland on 20 January 2018. At the meeting, North Korea and South Korea asked the IPC if they could compete as one team. On 27 February, the two countries met at a small village on the border with South Korea.  They discussed how the two countries would compete together at the Winter Games.  The Government of South Korea thinks the North going to the Games is important.  They think it can reduce the tensions between the two countries.

The country has the fourth largest team among all nations.  It has 36 people.

## Goals 
South Korea had a goal of winning four medals at the Games.  They wanted to win one gold, one silver and two bronze medals. In September 2017, this decision was reviewed and upheld.  The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) still had concerns about doping in Russian sport.  All the conditions the IPC required of the Russians were not met.

## History 
South Korea was where the 1988 Summer Paralympics were.  The 2018 Winter Paralympics was the second time South Korea hosted the Games.  South Korea has gone to every Winter Paralympic Games since the 1992 Winter Paralympics.

### Results 
In cross country skiing's men's 15&nbsp;km sitting race, Maksym Yarovyi of Ukraine won gold, Daniel Cnossen of the United States won silver, and Sin Eui Hyun won bronze.

## Sledge hockey 
### Roster 
People think Jung Segun-Hwan is one of the best forwards in the world.  He scored a goal in the bronze medal match at the 2017 Sledge Hockey World Championships.  The goal helped his team win bronze.

### History 
South Korea could play at the 2018 Paralympics because the Games were in South Korea. South Korea played in the 2017 World Sledge Hockey Challenge in December in Charlottetown, Canada.

South Korea won a bronze medal at the 2014 Winter Paralympics.  They went to the Games with people thinking they could win another medal in 2018. They play against the Czech Republic on 11 March.
; Preliminary round

## Related pages
* North Korea at the 2018 Winter Paralympics
* Korea at the 2018 Winter Paralympics

## References
Serbia at the 2018 Winter Paralympics

**Serbia** sent people to compete at the **2018 Winter Paralympics** in Pyeongchang, South Korea.  One person on the team is para-Nordic skier Milos Zaric. In addition to para-Nordic skier, Zaric is also a para-athlete.  He is the world champion in the men's F55 javelin.

## Team 
The table below contains the list of members of people (called "Team Serbia") that will be participating in the 2018 Games.

## Russian doping scandal 
15 National Paralympic Committees and the International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation signed a letter expressing support for the National Paralympic Committee of Russia in August 2017.  The countries included Armenia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Laos, Moldova, Mongolia, Serbia, Tajikistan, Montenegro, and South Korea.  They asked the IPC Governing Board to consider letting Russia compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics.  The letter was signed weeks before the IPC Governing Board met in Abu Dhabi. In September 2017, this decision was reviewed and upheld.  The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) still had concerns about doping in Russian sport.  All the conditions the IPC required of the Russians were not met.

## History 
Serbia first competed at the Winter Paralympics in 2010, and had yet to win a medal going into the 2018 edition of the Games.  Serbia was represented by Jugoslav Milosevic in 2014.  He competed in para-alpine skiing.  The upper limb amputee competed in the slalom and giant slalom standing events.

## Para-Nordic skiing 
### Skiers 
Milos Zaric competes in two sports: para-athletics and para-Nordic skiing.  In 2017, he won a gold medal at the 2017 IPC Athletics World Championships in the men's F55 javelin. A few months later, he competed in para-Nordic skiing at the World Cup in Oberried, Germany.  The World Cup was the first time he was part of Team Serbia at an international sporting competition.

## References
Romania at the 2018 Winter Paralympics

**Romania** sent people to compete at the **2018 Winter Paralympics** in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Romania sent only one person to the 2018 Games.  The person was Mihaita Papară.  He competes in para-snowboarding. Romania first went to the Winter Paralympics in 2010.  The country has never won a medal at the Winter Games. At the 2010 and 2014 Games, Romania was represented by one skier, Laura Văleanu.

## Team 
Romania sent only one person to the 2018 Games.  The person was Mihaita Papara.  He competes in para-snowboarding 

The table below contains the list of members of people (called "Team Romania") that will be participating in the 2018 Games.

## Assistance 
The Romanian National Paralympic Committee has few employees.  They also have very little money.  Despite this, they try very hard to help all sportspeople with disabilities in Romania. The slalom race is scheduled to take place on 16 March.  It goes from 10:30 AM – 4:55 PM.  Men and women in all classes are racing at that time. At the 2010 and 2014 Games, Romania was represented by one skier, Laura Văleanu.

## References
North Korea at the 2018 Winter Paralympics

**North Korea** sent people to compete at the **2018 Winter Paralympics** in Pyeongchang, South Korea.  It was the first time that North Korea competed in the Winter Paralympics. The country had two skiers, Kim Jonghyon and Ma Yuchol, racing in para-Nordic skiing.

## Playing together 
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) said North Korea was going to participate in the Winter Games for the first time.  The North Koreans will competing under a Korean unification flag like their delegation for the 2018 Winter Olympics did.  This is the first time that North Korea went to the Winter Paralympics. The country had gone to the 2012 Summer Paralympics and the 2016 Summer Paralympics. On 1 January 2018, Kim Jong-un said he wanted to have North Koreans competing at the 2018 Winter Olympics and Paralympics. North Koreans had a meeting with the IPC in Lusanne, Switzerland on 20 January 2018. At the meeting, North Korea and South Korea asked the IPC if they could compete as one team. On 27 February, the two countries met at a small village on the border with South Korea.  They discussed how the two countries would compete together at the Winter Games.  The Government of South Korea thinks the North going to the Games is important.  They think it can reduce the tensions between the two countries.  Ma is a physical education student.  She was in a car accident when she was a 5-year-old.  Because of the accident, doctors amputated her foot.  She played table tennis.  At the 2013 Asian Youth Para Games, she won a silver medal in the sport. Kim used to play table tennis.  He is a student.

The table below contains the list of members of people (called "Team North Korea") that will be participating in the 2018 Games.

## Para-Nordic skiing 
### Skiers 
Two members of the Korea team are North Koreans.  They are Kim Jonghyon and Ma Yuchol.  They first competed internationally at the 2018 Paralympic Nordic Skiing World Cup in Oberried, Germany in January 2018.

## Related pages
* Korea at the 2018 Winter Paralympics
* South Korea at the 2018 Winter Paralympics

## References
Spain at the 2018 Winter Paralympics

**Spain** sent people to compete at the **2018 Winter Paralympics** in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The team from Spain had 4 people.  They included 2 snowboarders and 2 skiers. Blind skier Jon Santacana and guide skier Miguel Galindo Garces competed at the Paralympics before in  2002, 2006, 2010 and the 2014. Astrid Fina Paredes went to the 2014 Winter Paralympics. Snowboarder Víctor González will be going to his first Paralympic Games.

## Team 
Spain sent 4 people to the 2018 Winter Paralympics.  They were  snowboards and alpine skiers.  The team went to an event in Madrid on 26 February 2018 in Madrid.  After the event, they went to South Korea.  Paralympic sports are also treated the same as women's sports in Spain.  They are hidden away, and the media gives little coverage to the sporting accomplishments of its elite Paralympic sportspeople.  While Olympic people have guaranteed money because of Plan ADO, Paralympic people get much less money from Plan ADOP.  The money they get is also much less secure, changing from year to year.  This makes it difficult for Spanish Paralympic people to plan in advance their practice and competition calendar.  Olympic people get money for the year.  Paralympic people only get money for a month.  The next month, they may not get any money from Plan ADOP.  While Spain has a lot of people with disabilities, only 0.5% have a sports license.  This situation continued with the 2018 Winter Paralympics.

## Para-alpine skiing 
### Skiers 
Jon Santacana competed at the 2002, 2006, 2010 and the 2014 Winter Paralympics with his guide, Miguel Galindo Garces. He won eight medals between 2002 and 2014 at the Paralympics. Three were gold. Three were silver. Two were bronze.

## Para-snowboarding 
### Snowboarders 
Spain sent two snowboarders to the Paralympic Games in South Korea.  They were Astrid Fina Paredes and Víctor González.  They are members of Federación Española de Deportes de Personas con Discapacidad Física, a sport organization for people with physical disabilities. In 2017, she wanted to go to the 2018 Paralympic Games and win a medal.  Her fear was she would get hurt.  This would make it difficult to race and get a medal.  She leaves for South Korea on 2 March 2018, with her first race on 12 March and her second one 15 March.  In 2013, her leg was amputated.  She started para-snowboarding that year.  It was one year from when she start that she went to Sochi. The slalom race is scheduled to take place on 16 March, going from 10:30 AM – 4:55 PM for men and women in all classes.  These totals have been criticized.  At the 2016 Summer Olympics and Paralympics, the government allocated 1,861,000 € for Olympic medalists but only 684,000 €  to people who won medals at the Paralympics. The individual totals are still better than the past.  At the 2012 Summer Paralympics,  Olympic gold won a person 94,000 € but a gold medal at the Paralympics only won a person 10,000 €.

## References
Netherlands at the 2018 Winter Paralympics

**The Netherlands** sent people  to compete at the **2018 Winter Paralympics** in Pyeongchang, South Korea.  Four people were going to compete in para-snowboarding.  Five people were going to compete in para-alpine skiing. Anna Jochemsen and Jeffrey Stuut are standing skiers. Linda van Impelen, Jeroen Kampschreur and Niels de Langen are all competing in all 5 para-alpine sit-ski events.   Lisa Bunschoten, Mentel-Spee and Vos all competed at the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi. Renske van Beek is the only snowboarded on Team Netherlands who did not go to Sochi.

## Team 
There were four people who could go to the Paralympics in para-snowboarding.  There were another five people who could go in para-alpine skiing.

The table below contains the list of members of people (called "Team Netherlands") that will be participating in the 2018 Games.

## Para-alpine skiing 
### Skiers 
Anna Jochemsen and Jeffrey Stuut are standing skiers. The second event on the program is Super-G. All skiers will race between 9:30 AM and 1:00 PM on 11 March.  She is a member of the Honourary Board of the International Paralympic Committee. She goes on 8 March 2018 and leaves 13 March 2018.

## References
Mongolia at the 2018 Winter Paralympics

**Mongolia** sent people  to compete at the **2018 Winter Paralympics** in Pyeongchang, South Korea.  Ganbold Batmunkh () will compete in para-Nordic skiing. He qualified by competing at the Para Nordic Skiing World Cup.

## Team 
In November 2017, Ganbold Batmunkh () was invited to go to the 2018 Winter Paralympics.

The table below contains the list of members of people (called "Team Mongolia") that will be participating in the 2018 Games.

## Russian doping scandal 
15 National Paralympic Committees and the International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation signed a letter expressing support for the National Paralympic Committee of Russia in August 2017.  The countries included Armenia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Laos, Moldova, Mongolia, Serbia, Tajikistan, Montenegro, and South Korea.  They asked the IPC Governing Board to consider letting Russia compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics.  The letter was signed weeks before the IPC Governing Board met in Abu Dhabi. In September 2017, this decision was reviewed and upheld.  The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) still had concerns about doping in Russian sport.  All the conditions the IPC required of the Russians were not met.

## Para-Nordic skiing 
Batmunkh competed at the 2014 Winter Paralympics.  His best finish was fourteenth.  This was in the 20km Classic Style - Standing race.  He had a time of 1:11:08.3.  His best finish at the World Championships was in 2017.  He finished ninth in the 20km - Standing.  He had a result of 1:02:15.4.   He already had 130 World Cup points. Fifth of those points were in the 2017/2018 season.  These points made it possible for him to go to the Paralympics.  Batmunkh is coached by  J. Dondo  () .

## References
Poland at the 2018 Winter Paralympics

**Poland** sent people to compete at the **2018 Winter Paralympics** in Pyeongchang, South Korea.  People will compete in cross-country skiing, para-alpine skiing, biathlon and para-snowboarding. Team members include Katarzyna Rogowiec and Igor Sikorski.

## Team 
In January 2018, Poland thought their team for the 2018 Games would include ten sportspeople in four sports: cross-country skiing, para-alpine skiing, biathlon and para-snowboarding. The complete list of all members of Team Poland was shared in February 2018.

The table below contains the list of members of people (called "Team Poland") that will be participating in the 2018 Games.

It can be difficult for people with disabilities to participate in winter sports.

## References
New Zealand at the 2018 Winter Paralympics

**New Zealand** sent people  to compete at the **2018 Winter Paralympics** in Pyeongchang, South Korea.  The team is competing in para-alpine skiing and para-snowboarding.

## Team 
New Zealand said they will have 3 sportspeople at the 2018 Games.  Two will compete in para-alpine skiing and one will compete in para-snowboarding. New Zealand, Sweden and the United States were the first countries to name people to their teams after sportspeople won spots by November 2017.

## Alpine skiing 
### Schedule and training 
Skiers had training runs for the downhill race on 7 March.  Their practice runs in the downhill on 8 and 9 March were cancelled.

The first event on the para-alpine program was the downhill. It started on 10 March, running from 9:30 AM to 1:30 PM. The second event on the program is Super-G. All skiers raced between 9:30 AM and 1:00 PM on 11 March.  The super combined takes place on 13 March. The Super-G part of the event is in the morning. The slalom part is in the afternoon. The slalom event gets underway on 14 March and conclude on 15 March. Women and men both race during the same sessions in the morning. The afternoon sessions start with the women doing their second run. Then the men go.The last para-alpine skiing race of the 2018 Games is the giant slalom. It takes place on 17 - 18 March.  Men and women both race at the same time in the morning sessions.  Women race first in the afternoon sessions, with the men racing a half hour after they end.

### Results 
In the men's downhill sitting race, Andrew Kurka of the United States won gold, Taiki Morri of Japan won silver and Corey Peters of New Zealand won bronze.

## Snowboarding 
### Schedule and results 
The snowboard cross event starts on 12 March, running from 10:30 AM to 5:00 PM for all classes for both men and women. The slalom race is scheduled to take place on 16 March, going from 10:30 AM – 4:55 PM for men and women in all classes.

## References
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**Justin Allgaier** is an American racecar driver. He currently drives in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 7 Chevrolet Camaro for JR Motorsports. Allgaier is a native of Illinois and has also driven in the ARCA Racing Series, NASCAR Camping World Truck Series and NASCAR Cup Series. 

## Racing career 
Allgaier started racing early in life, driving quarter midgets and late models.

Allgaier, driving for a team owned by his family, won the ARCA Racing Series championship in 2008. He won the last three races of the season and claimed the title when the two drivers above him in points, Scott Speed and Ricky Stenhouse Jr., crashed each other during the last race of the season.

Due to that, he signed a contract with Team Penske to drive in the NASCAR Nationwide Series. He started with a few races in 2008 and ran a full season in 2009. Allgaier again drove for Penske in 2010, winning his first race. As early as September 2010, Allgaier was linked to a new team, HScott Motorsports. He wound up driving full-time in 2011 and scored his first win with the team at Chicagoland Speedway later in the year. Allgaier continued driving for the team in 2012 and 2013. He also ran a part-time Cup schedule for Phoenix Racing in late 2013.

In 2014, Allgaier got a full-time Cup ride with HScott Motorsports. He returned to HScott for 2015, scoring his first top-ten finish at Bristol Motor Speedway. At the end of the year, Allgaier announced that he would move back down to the Xfinity Series to drive for JR Motorsports, owned by Dale Earnhardt, Jr. After a consistent 2016 season, he won two races in 2017.

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Lowest common denominator

The **lowest common denominator** (also **least common denominator** and **LCD**) is the least common multiple of the denominators (bottom parts) of a group of fractions. It makes it easier to add, subtract, and compare fractions.

The LCD of \frac{1}{2} and \frac{2}{3} is 6. This is because \frac{1}{2} and \frac{2}{3} equal \frac{3}{6} and \frac{4}{6}. 6 is the smallest number that can be at the bottom of both of those fractions.

The same thing also works with variables:

: \frac{1}{2x} + \frac{3}{x^2} = \frac{1}{2x} {\color{Green}\cdot \frac{x}{x}} + \frac{3}{x^2} {\color{Green}\cdot \frac{2}{2}} = \frac{x}{2x^2} + \frac{6}{2x^2} = \frac{x+6}{2x^2}
Elise Christie

**Elise Christie** (born August 13th, 1990) is a British short track speed skater. She is trained by Nicky Gooch. She is devoted to 1000m short track speed skating. She has won gold medals ten times at European championships in the sport. She has won the entire event in 2015 and 2016.
Kenneth Haigh

**Kenneth Haigh** (25 March 1931 – 4 February 2018) was an English actor. He was born in Mexborough, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. He was known for his roles in *Man at the Top* (1970–72) and the spin-off movie *Man at the Top* (1973) and as Brutus in the 1963 movie *Cleopatra*. 

Haigh died of complications from cerebral edema on 4 February 2018 in London at the age of 86.

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Jeff Bell

**Jeffrey Leonard Bell** (December 13, 1943 – February 10, 2018) was an American Republican Party politician, political consultant, author and former presidential speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan. 

Bell was the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate from New Jersey in 1978, was a candidate for the Republican nomination for the Senate in 1982, and was the nominee against Democratic incumbent Cory Booker in 2014.

Bell was born in Washington, D.C.. He studied at Columbia University. Bell died in Leonia, New Jersey on February 10, 2018 of a suspected heart attack at the age of 74.

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* Biographical information for Jeffrey Bell from The Political Graveyard
Alfonso Lacadena

**Alfonso Lacadena García-Gallo** (21 August 1964 &ndash; 9 February 2018), was a Spanish researcher of Mayan subjects. He was born in Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain. He was a known specialist in his writing, epigraphy, and in the deciphering of his texts and professor at the Complutense University of Madrid in the department of Anthropology of America.

Lacadena died on 9 February 2018 of lymphoma in Madrid at the age of 63.

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Vic Damone

**Vic Damone** (born **Vito Rocco Farinola**; June 12, 1928 – February 11, 2018) was an American traditional pop and big band singer-songwriter, actor, radio and television presenter, and entertainer. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He was best known for his performances of songs such as "You're Breaking My Heart" (a number one hit), the number four hit "On the Street Where You Live" (from *My Fair Lady*), and "My Heart Cries for You" (also No. 4).

Damone died of complications from respiratory failure on February 11, 2018 in Miami Beach, Florida at the age of 89.

## References
## Other websites
*Vic Damone's Official Website 
*Vic Damone's autobiography from St. Martin's Press 
*[ All Music Guide on Vic Damone]
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*VH1 page  on Vic Damone
Giuseppe Galasso

**Giuseppe Galasso** (19 November 1929 – 12 February 2018) was an Italian historian and politician. He was born in Rome. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1983 to 1994.

Galasso died in Rome of prostate cancer on 12 February 2018 at the age of 88.

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Jon D. Fox

**Jon Dennis Fox** (April 22, 1947 – February 11, 2018) was an American politician. He was born in Abington Township, Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Republican Party. Fox served in the United States House of Representatives representing Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district from 1995 through 1999.

Fox died on February 11, 2018 of complications from liver cancer in Abington Township at age 70.

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Nguyễn Thị Doan

**Nguyễn Thị Doan** (born 8 November 1951) is a Vietnamese politician. Shee was Vice President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam from 2007 to 2016. She is a former member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, and former deputy to the National Assembly of Vietnam for Hà Nam Province.          

Nguyễn Thị Doan became member of the Communist Party of Vietnam on  11 July 1982. In June 1996 at the 8th National Party Congress, she became member of the  Party  Central Committee. In August 1999: At the 7th Conference of the Party Central Committee, she was elected member of the Central Commission for Inspection. In 25 July 2007 She was elected Vice-President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam at the first session of the Twelfth National Assembly.

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Fethia Mzali

**Fethia Mokhtar Mzali** (6 April 1927 – 12 February 2018) was a Tunisian teacher and politician, She was born in Tunis. She became one of the country's first two female ministers in 1983. Her husband, Mohammed Mzali served as the country's Prime Minister from 1980–1986.

Mzali died in Tunis on 12 February 2018 of congestive heart failure in Paris at the age of 90.

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Luo Haocai

**Luo Haocai** (; March 1934 – 12 February 2018) was a Chinese legal scholar, Supreme Court judge, and politician. He was born in Singapore. He served as professor and Vice President of Peking University, Vice President of the Supreme People's Court, Chairman of the China Zhi Gong Party (Public Interest Party), and Vice Chairperson of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).

Luo died in Beijing on 12 February 2018 at the age of 83.

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Daryle Singletary

**Daryle Bruce Singletary** (March 10, 1971 – February 12, 2018) was an American country music singer. He was born in Cairo, Georgia. Between 1995 and 1998, he recorded for Giant Records: *Daryle Singletary* in 1995, *All Because of You* in 1996 and ''Ain't It the Truth'' in 1998. He reached number two with "I Let Her Lie" and "Amen Kind of Love", and number four with "Too Much Fun".

A third album of covers, 2007's *Straight from the Heart*, was issued on the independent Shanachie Records label. He returned to Jack Noseworthy Studios (now renamed E1 Music) in 2010, to release ''Rockin' in the Country''.

Singletary died of a blood clot in Lebanon, Tennessee on February 12, 2018 at the age of 46.

## References
## Other websites
* DaryleSingletary.net 
* AGR Television Records International Record Label of Daryle Singletary (multi-lingual)
Hua Chenyu

**Hua Chenyu** (born February 7, 1990), also known by his nickname **Hua Hua**, is a Chinese singer and songwriter. He rose to fame after winning the 2013 Super Boy singing contest produced by Hunan TV, China.

Hua hua released his debut album ''Quasimodo's Gift* in September 2014. The sales volume of this album  ranked Top 1 in the Jingdong Top 100 Annual Sales Chart (Music). His second physical album *Aliens'' was released in December 2015.
2016 Donald Trump Chicago rally protest

video about Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders's responses to the postponed Chicago rally]]
On March 11, 2016, the Donald Trump presidential campaign cancelled a planned rally at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), in Chicago, Illinois, due to "growing safety concerns" due to the protest of thousands of protesters in and outside his rally.

Thousands of anti-Trump protesters responding to civic leaders' and social media calls to shut the rally down had gathered outside the arena, and several hundred more filled seating areas within the UIC Pavilion, where the rally was to take place. When the Trump campaign announced that the rally would not take place, there was a great deal of shouting and a few small fights between Trump supporters and anti-Trump protesters.

Trump blamed Senator Bernie Sanders for the clashes in Chicago. He said that the protesters were "Bernie's crowd" and that a protester who charged the stage at an event in Dayton, Ohio the following day was a "Bernie person", calling on Sanders to "get your people in line." Sanders later called out Trump as a "pathological liar" who leads a "vicious movement", and said that "while I appreciate that we had supporters at Trump's rally in Chicago, our campaign did not organize the protests."

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Tanya Monro

Professor **Tanya Mary Monro** is an award-winning Australian physicist who is known for her work in photonics. She is currently the Deputy Vice Chancellor, Research and Innovation (DVCR&I) at the University of South Australia. She was awarded the ARC Georgina Sweet Laureate Fellowship in 2013. She was the inaugural chair of photonics, an inaugural director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale Biophotonics and the inaugural director of the Institute for Photonics & Advanced Sensing (IPAS), and the inaugural director of the Centre of Expertise in Photonics (CoEP) within the School of Chemistry and Physics at the University of Adelaide (known as the School of Physical Sciences). She is currently a professor of physics at the University of Adelaide.

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Tijana Bogićević

**Tijana Bogićević** is a Serbian singer. She participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017, with the song **"In Too Deep"**. But this did not qualify, despite the positive comments it received. Her other Eurovision participation was in 2011, as a backing vocalist for Nina.
She married Mark Robertson, who was a lead singer of the band Queen Of Hearts, in 2015.
## Discography
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Sherron Watkins

**Sherron Watkins** (born August 28, 1959) is an American former Vice President of Corporate Development at the erstwhile Enron Corporation. Watkins testified about her role in the Enron fraud before committees of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate at the beginning of 2002.

In August 2001, Watkins alerted then-Enron CEO Kenneth Lay of accounting irregularities in financial reports. However, Watkins has been criticized for not reporting the fraud to government authorities and not speaking up publicly sooner about her concerns, as her memo did not reach the public until five months after it was written. Ms. Watkins was represented by Houston attorney Philip H. Hilder.

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Korea at the 2018 Winter Paralympics

**Korea** sent people to compete at the **2018 Winter Paralympics** in Pyeongchang, South Korea.  While North Korea and South Korea compete as separate countries at the 2018 Winter Games, the two countries will enter the stadium during the Opening Ceremonies under one flag.  The two countries are still officially at war as the Korean War never officially ended.  They had entered the Olympic Games under one flag before, including at the  2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2006 Winter Games. Reciprocal military threats made in August and September 2017 by the governments of North Korea and the United States made this possibility at the 2018 Games more complicated.

## Competing together 
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) said North Korea was going to participate in the Winter Games for the first time.  The North Koreans will competing under a Korean unification flag like their delegation for the 2018 Winter Olympics did.  This is the first time that North Korea went to the Winter Paralympics. The country had gone to the 2012 Summer Paralympics and the 2016 Summer Paralympics. On 1 January 2018, Kim Jong-un said he wanted to have North Koreans competing at the 2018 Winter Olympics and Paralympics. North Koreans had a meeting with the IPC in Lusanne, Switzerland on 20 January 2018. At the meeting, North Korea and South Korea asked the IPC if they could compete as one team.  On 27 February, the two countries met at a small village on the border with South Korea.  They discussed how the two countries would compete together at the Winter Games.  The Government of South Korea thinks the North going to the Games is important.  They think it can reduce the tensions between the two countries.

## Developments 
The issue of North Korea's participation in the 2018 Games is complicated by the reciprocal military threats made in August and September 2017 by the governments of North Korea, under the leadership of dictator Kim Jong-un, and the United States, led by President Donald Trump.  This included  North Korea conducting a nuclear test on September 3 and the firing of North Korean missiles over the territory of Japan.

## Related pages
* North Korea at the 2018 Winter Paralympics
* South Korea at the 2018 Winter Paralympics

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Philip H. Hilder

**Philip H. Hilder** is an American criminal defense attorney and founder of the Houston law firm Hilder & Associates, P.C. He has represented whistle-blowers and other witnesses and defendants in several high-profile white-collar crime cases. He represented Sherron Watkins, the former Enron vice president who helped shed light on details of the company’s collapse in 2001. Ms. Watkins was named one of Time magazine’s three “Persons of the Year 2002.” Hilder was interviewed and featured in the 2005 Oscar-nominated Alex Gibney documentary, *Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room.* 

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Mexico at the 2018 Winter Paralympics

**Mexico** sent people  to compete at the **2018 Winter Paralympics** in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Only one person from Mexico is going to Pyeongchang.  That person is para-alpine skier Arly Velásquez. Mexico arrives in South Korea to compete in their fifth Winter Paralympics.  They first went to the 2006 Winter Paralympics in Turin.  Mexico's best winter sport is para-alpine skiing.

## Team 
Only one person from Mexico is going to Pyeongchang.  That person is para-alpine skier Arly Velásquez.

The table below contains the list of members of people (called "Team Mexico") that will be participating in the 2018 Games.

## History 
Mexico arrives in Pyeongchang to compete in their fifth Winter Paralympics.  They first went to the 2006 Winter Paralympics in Turin.  Mexico's best winter sport is para-alpine skiing.

## Para-alpine skiing 
### Skiers 
Arly Velásquez will be competing at his third Paralympics in Pyeongchang. He went to the 2010 and 2014 Winter Paralympics.

Velásquez was born in Cancun.  When he was a child, he moved to the United States.

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