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Yokutkhon Kholbekova () was the only skier selected to go to South Korea.
She competed in para-Nordic skiing.
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.
Yokutkhon Kholbekova went to a World Cup event in January 2018.
She also competes in para-athletics events, participating in national championships in Uzbekistan.
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.
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.
Help for the team
The government of the Ukraine gave money to the national team for the 2018 Winter Paralympics.
The money was for clothes, footwear and accessories for competition, and the opening and closing of the 2018 Paralympics.
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 the Ukraine for free.
In the women's 6 km biathlon standing race,  Ekaterina Rumyantseva won gold, Anna Milenina won silver, and Liudmyla Liashenko of Ukraine won bronze.
Ukrainian sportspeople who win a Paralympic medal get money from the government as part of an work of the government to bring dignity and make life better for Paralympians compared to Ukrainian Olympians.
Gold medalists get USD$125,000.
Silver medalists get USD$80,000.
Bronze medalists get USD$55,000.
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.
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.
Turkey tried to go to the 2018 Winter Paralympics in wheelchair curling.
Turkey Physically Disabled Sports Federation Wheelchair Curling was created a year before the ability to get the right to go by winning the Wheelchair Curling World Championships B Tournament.
The team had many problems, and did not do well.
They did not the earn the right to compete.
The team was coached by Gökçe Ulugay.
It included wheelchair curlers Züleyha Bingöl, Kenan Coşkun, Serpil Arslan , Mesut Güle and Turan Akalın.
The competition was the first international tournament Turkey participated in.
Skiers from Turkey also tried to get the right to go to  Pyeongchang.
Like wheelchair curlers in Turkey, the skiers had many challenges.
They were not able to get the right to compete.
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.
Esat Hilmi Bayindir was in a traffic accident.
Because of this, he has a disability.
At the time of the 2014 Winter Paralympics, the skier was living in the United States.
He started skiing in 1982.
Mehmet Çekiç started skiing in France in 2011.
In 2013, Çekiç went to alpine skiing competition in France and Italy.
Because of a traffic accident in 2009, he has a disability.
After the 2014 Winter Paralympics, Turkey hoped they could go to 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.
The team has 13 people.
18 other people are part of the team.
They include coaches, administrators and sport officials.
The flag bearer for the Opening Ceremonies is Felix Wagner.
Luana Bergamin is the Chef-de-Mission.
Bergamin said he wants Switzerland to win 3 medals at the 2018 Games.
Switzerland and Germany share a meeting place during the Winter Paralympics.
It is called "Maison des Alpes".
Fans, sportspeople, journalists and other people can go there and talk.
The place includes a Swiss restaurant.
Christoph Kunz went to Pyeongchang with 2 gold medals.
He won them at earlier Winter Paralympic Games.
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 Switzerland national wheelchair curling team members are Felix Wagner, Claudia Hüttenmoser-Pfister, Marcel Bodenmann, Beatrix Blauel, and Hans Burgener.
Wagner is the skip.
They won the 2016 Wheelchair Curling World Championships.
This won them the right to go to the 2018 Winter Paralympics.
To get ready for the Games, the team played in 5 international tournaments.
They took place in Copenhagen, Wetzikon, Stirling in Scotland, Richmond in British Colombia, and Ottawa.
B. Braun Medical SA is the team's sponsor.
Wheelchair curling competition started on 10 March.
Switzerland plays against Sweden on 15 March.
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.
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.
People from Sweden went to the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi, Russia.
Of the 22 total people, 18 were men and 4 were women.
They won 1 gold medal, 2 silver medals and 1 bronze medal.
People from Sweden were critical of anti-doping work planned for the 2018 Winter Olympics and Paralympics.
They did not like the fact that anti-doping officials were not being paid.
Aaron Lindström made the team for the 2018 Games when he was a 17-year-old.
He was the first alpine skier to be named to the team for Sweden.
He competes in the slalom, giant slalom and Super G races.
Zebastian Modin has problems seeing, and uses a guide skier.
Before South Korea, he competed at the 2010 Winter Paralympics in Vancouver and the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi.
He won a bronze medal in 2010, and  two silver medals and a bronze medal in 2014.
Sweden's first game is on 10 March against Canada.
They play against Italy on 12 March.
They play against Norway on 13 March.
The Swedish national wheelchair curling team includes Viljo Petersson Dahl, Kristina Ulander, Ronny Persson, Zandra Reppe and Mats-Ola Engborg.
The team starts playing on 10 March when they compete against China.
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.
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.
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.
Traditionally, the United States, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, New Zealand, Norway and Sweden have been the best countries at the Winter Paralympics.
Spain has not sent many people, and has not won many medals.
One of the reasons is that there are not many places to ski, and it is very expensive.
This discourages people from trying winter sports.
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.
There were some issues related to clothing making Joma sponsoring the Winter Paralympic team.
The company already sponsored the 2018 Spanish Winter Olympic team.
This started during preparations for the 2016 Summer Paralympics.
Joma wanted to provide clothing for only some members of the Spanish team going to Rio de Janeiro.
They did not want to provide clothes for the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the Summer Paralympics.
The company cited a lack of commercial visibility for the Paralympic Games as the reason they wanted to do this.
While Joma was not providing clothing for all team members for all parts of the Summer Paralympics, the company created advertising saying they were official sponsors of the team.
The Spanish Paralympic Committee did not consider them to be sponsors as they were not providing everyone with clothing.
They asked Joma to stop what they thought was deceptive advertising.
The Spanish Paralympic Committee also considered taking legal action against Joma.
The Summer Paralympics became the first Paralympic Games in 20 years where the Spanish Olympic and Paralympic teams did not have the same clothing sponsor.
This situation continued with the 2018 Winter Paralympics.
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.
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.
Astrid Fina Paredes
Astrid Fina Paredes went to the IPC World Cup 2017 in La Molina, Spain.
She won two silver medals.
The World Cup was part of her training for the 2018 Winter Paralympics.
In February 2017, she went to the IPC Para-Snowboarding World Championships in Big White, Canada.
She finished fourth in the snowboard slalom race and fifth in the snowboard cross race.
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.
Astrid Fina Paredes was at the 2014 Winter Paralympics, with the 2018 Games being her second Games.
At Sochi 2014, she finished sixth in snowboard cross.
From Barcelona, Fina Paredes has a physical disability because of a traffic accident in 2009.
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.
Participating in snowboarding costs a lot of money.
To continue to practice and compete in the southern hemisphere during 2016, she needed to rent out her apartment in Spain.
Team Spain had no money to help her.
Víctor González
Víctor González was a snowboarder.
Because of the accident, he got a disability in his legs.
After the accident, he switched to para-snowboarding.
The Government of Spain said there was 135,000 € total to give to Spanish sportspeople who won medals at the 2018 Games.
If a person won a gold medal, they got up to 30,000 €.
If a person won a silver medal, they got up to 15,000 €.
A person with a bronze medal got up to 9,000 €.
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 €.
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.
South Korea wanted to win at the 2018 Winter Olympics and 2018 Winter Paralympics because they did not want to be embarrassed as the Games were going to be South Korea.
To do this, they looked around the world for coaches and people who could compete at the Games.
They gave citizenship to 19 people for Team South Korea at the Olympics.
They gave citizenship to one person for the Paralympics, but this person was not chosen to be part of the team that competed at the Paralympic Games.
The country has the fourth largest team among all nations.
It has 36 people.
South Korea had a goal of winning four medals at the Games.
They wanted to win one gold, one silver and two bronze medals.
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.
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.
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 played in a tournament in January in Japan.
They beat Norway 0 - 5 to win gold.
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 Japan on 10 March.
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.
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.
At the end of December 2017, he was the only Slovene to have earned the right to compete at the Paralympics.
Because his recovery went so fast, he competed at a World Cup in Zagreb, Croatia in early December.
This was in addition to the World Cup a week later in Slovenia.
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."
Slivnik said after qualifying for the Paralympics, "Before the first run there were some problems with the track, but the Kranjska Gora team did a great job and prepared a track that was excellent.
In the second, the track was already slightly slapped.
I made a little mistake, but I did not want to give in, I wanted to aim.
I am glad that I have confirmed my departure for the Paralympic Games, as this idea of ​​successfully passing the game was a long time in the head."
Slovakia sent people  to compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
Slovakia is sending up to fifteen sportspeople to the 2018 Games.
They are competing in para-alpine skiing and wheelchair curling.
The team includes Henrieta Farkasova.
Farkasova has the more medals won at the Winter Paralympics than any other person from Slovakia.
Before the 2018 Paralympics, she had five gold medals, one silver and one  bronze medal.
They are also sending another 15 people to assist them.
The sportspeople are competing in para-alpine skiing and wheelchair curling.
Henrieta Farkasova went to the Games as the world champion in slalom and giant slalom.
She won gold in both races at the 2014 Winter Paralympics.
Before the 2018 Paralympics, Farkasova  had five gold medals, one silver and one  bronze medal.
Born in 1986, Farkasova is blind.
Jakub Krako was second in Slovakia for most medals won at the Winter Paralmpics.
Before 2018 Pyeongchang, he won four gold medals and two silver medals.
Krako has a physical disability.
Farkasova went to Slovenia in January 2018.
Henrieta Farkasova, guided by Nataly Subrtova, won the first gold medal at the Winter Paralympics.
Farkasova won gold in women's downhill vision impaired race.
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.
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.
The upper limb amputee competed in the slalom and giant slalom standing events.
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.
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.
The person was Mihaita Papara.
He competes in para-snowboarding
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.
Their 2014 budget was   for twelve sports.
Snowboard became their thirteenth sport.
This happened after Mihaita Papara asked the Committee Chairperson Sally Wood Lamont to support him.
In 2016, the budget for the Romanian National Paralympic Committee increased.
The year of the Summer Paralympics, their budget was   .
In comparison, Croatia had a budget of  in 2015.
They money increased because Romanians did well in international competitions.
Because the costs to compete are very high, the money was still not enough.
There are few sponsors for disability sportspeople in Romania.
The Paralympic Games do not get much media coverage.
This makes it very difficult for people in Romania to go to the Paralympic Games.
Papară started snowboarding after a car accident.
Snowboarding made his life more normal.
It was more like life before his accident.
He started using a new knee prosthesis in 2012.
He could have tried to go to the 2014 Winter Paralympics.
He chose not to.
Because he would not have been at his best, Papară thought it was not honorable to go.
He also did not have much experience competing at snowboarding.
By 2018, things had changed.
Papară had participated in a lot more races.
He had more experience.
His fitness was better.
He entered his first international snowboard race in November 2014.
Before his first race, a little voice in his head said, "Wait, what you're doing, it's too risky, you're going to hurt yourself, give up!"
The prosthetic he uses to snowboard costs .
The Romania Olympic Committee assisted in paying for part of his prosthetic.
Laura Văleanu is Papară's role model.
Her amputation is similar to his.
She was a skier.
She represented Romania at the 2010 Winter Paralympics.
Those were the first Winter Paralympics Romania went to.
Sport was a passion for her.
It assisted in her recovery.
Papară tried to do the same as Văleanu.
Sport became a way to regain life.
Papară was in a car accident in 3 September 2005.
Because of the accident, doctors amputated his leg.
After the accident, he tried to live a normal life.
He tried to make sure his amputation did not mean he could not do things he wanted to do.
He said, "The recovery after such an accident, after an amputation is very difficult and lasting.
If I were to give advice to a person in the same situation, I would tell them to start a physical activity, to start sport as soon as possible."
Papară is from Gheorgheni, Harghita.
He was born in Harghita.
In early February, Papară went to a World Cup in Canada.
He was in the banked slalom and snowboard cross races.
He said it was important people in Romania saw him snowboarding.
He thinks it will help change people's mind about what people with disabilities can do.
He wants to be a role model for others with disabilities.
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.
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.
It can be difficult for people with disabilities to participate in winter sports.
Katarzyna Rogowiec said the reason is because people are more dependent on others.
They need help to put on jackets.
They may need help to get into a special chair.
It can be difficult to stay warm when you do not have hands.
Winter sports are also very expensive.
The cost makes it difficult for many people to participate.
Poland did not win any medals at the 2014 Winter Paralympics.
Poland won a bronze medal at the 2010 Winter Paralympics.
Polish Paralympic Committee President Łukasz Szeliga said the goal of Poland is to have better finishes than 2010 and 2014.
They would like to win at least one medal.
The team includes Igor Sikorski.
Sikorski is from Krakow.
In January 2018, Igor Sikorski went to the World Cup in Zagreb, Croatia.
He skied really well at the competition.
Russia sent people to compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
They competed as  "Neutral Paralympic Athletes" in 5 sports.
Only Russian sportspeople that had not participated in doping were allowed to compete.
On 26 February 2018, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) said which people from Russia could compete as Neutral Paralympic Athletes at the 2018 Winter Paralympics.
The list included 30 people.
They were going to compete in para-alpine skiing, para-Nordic skiing, para-snowboarding and wheelchair curling.
Ekaterina Rumyantseva won gold and  Anna Milenina won silver in the women's 6 km biathlon standing race.
In the women's 6 km biathlon visually impaired race,  Mikhalina Lysova won gold.
The medals were won on 10 March, the first day of para-Nordic skiing competition at the 2018 Games.
10 people are competing in para-alpine skiing, 12 in para-Nordic skiing, 3 in para-snowboarding and 5 in wheelchair curling.
The team also includes 6 guide skiers.
There are also going to be 39 support people and officials.
Despite limitations on who can compete because of the doping scandal, Neutral Paralympic Athletes from Russia will be one of the largest delegations at the Games.
After the 2014 Winter Paralympics, the McLaren report said 35 people from Russia had done doping during the Games in Sochi.
A decision had been made by mid-2016 that Russia would not be able to compete under the Russian flag at the 2018 Games.
The  International Paralympic Committee (IPC) set conditions for Russia's membership in November 2016.
The McLaren Report, printed in December 2016, said more than 1,000 Olympic and Paralympic people had been involved with Russia's government sponsored doping program.
In early January 2017, the Russians asked the ban be removed.
They wanted to be able to participate in specific qualifying competitions.
In April 2017, a proposal was made to allow Russians to compete using a neutral flag.
The IPC explained that people could only use a neutral flag if they were refugees or had no National Paralympic Committee.
In May 2017, the IPC said the Russians had until September 2017 to meet all the conditions if they wanted to go to the Winter Paralympics.
If they did not meet the conditions, the Russians probably would not be able to go.
In October 2017, Russians were allowed to compete in qualifying as Neutral Paralympic Athletes.
They were allowed to do this in alpine skiing, biathlon, cross-country skiing and snowboarding.
A decision was not made in October about their participation at the 2018 Games.
Because the  IPC thought Russia had a doping program run by the government, Russian people were stopped from going to the Games with the Russian flag at the 2018 Games.
Some Russian people competed as "Neutral Paralympic Athletes" if the IPC thought they were had not done doping.
Because of this, Russians were allowed to compete in 5 sports:  para-alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, biathlon, snowboarding and wheelchair curling.
Russians were allowed to compete because the IPC thought their National Paralympic Committee had met some of the conditions the IPC had demanded of them.
More improvements were still needed though before they could compete at the Paralympics as Russia.
Russia's Paralympians currently face more difficult conditions than those of Russia's Olympians.
The Government of Russia has said the allegations about doping are not true.
They blame the United States, saying it is a conspiracy to make sure they cannot compete.
Vladmir Putin said the United States was doing this to try to prevent him from winning the election for President of Russia.
All eligible people from Russia would need additional testing for use of banned substances.
The testing would be more than people from other countries would have to do.
As of 29 January 2018, the IPC said 30 to 35 Russian sportspeople might be able to go to the Games the way to decide who was going was still taking place.
The last date to win a spot at the 2018 Paralympics was 23 February.
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|bgcolor=F7F6A8 |2
|bgcolor=DCE5E5 |1
|bgcolor=FFDAB9 |0
|Day 2
|11 March
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|Day 3
|12 March
|Day 4
|13 March
|Day 5
|14 March
|Day 6
|15 March
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|Day 7
|16 March
|Day 8
|17 March
|Day 9
|18 March
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On 28 January 2018, it looked like 6 women and 10 men from Russia could go to South Korea.
One Russian woman in her early 30s said she intended to compete in Pyeongchang.
Vladimir Kiselev said he was not allowed to compete in South Korea.
He said he had also been stopped from going to the 2016 Summer Paralympics.
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The wheelchair curling competition starts on 10 March.
Russia plays against Sweden on 15 March.
Norway sent people  to compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
People are competing in para-alpine skiing, para-Nordic skiing, para-snowboarding, sledge hockey and wheelchair curling.
Owe Lüthcke is a sledge hockey referee.
The Norwegian went to  Pyeongchang to referee matches.
He was part of the official Norwegian delegation.
At the 2014 Winter Paralympics, there were 31 people from Norway competing.
There were 25 men and 6 women.
For the 2018 Winter Paralympics, Nord-Trøndelag County Council has some goals.
These included getting more people to compete in disability sports.
They also wanted to increase the level of accessibility to sports buildings and sports field in Nord-Trøndelag County and the rest of Norway.
In December 2017, Norway said it would not send any anti-doping officials to the Winter Olympics or Paralympics.
They are tired of needing to use unpaid volunteers.
They think anti-doping officials need to be paid.
Anti-doping Norway chief executive Anders Solheim said, "If you sell TV rights for this arrangement for billions of dollars, then we think it's wrong that we pay for Norwegian doping controllers to help with the controls.
An inspector should receive a reasonable salary and his trip paid for the three weeks he or she will be there.
By not paying doping controllers, the organisers are de facto relying on volunteers.
Anti-doping work should not be a voluntary profession for those who want to.
It is downplaying the priority of our work, and we are tired of it."
Birgit Skarstein competes in two sports: adapted rowing and para-Nordic skiing.
She won a gold medal at the 2017 World Rowing Championships in the PR1 W1x.
Skarstein also went to the 2016 Summer Paralympics, and she finished fourth.
Skarstein has also went to the 2014 Winter Paralympics, competing in para-Nordic skiing.
Norway finished in the first four at the 2017 Sledge Hockey World Championships.
Norway played in a tournament in January in Japan.
They lost to the Paralympic Games host nation South Korea 0 - 5 in the gold medal game.
Lena Schroeder is the only woman to be competing in sledge hockey at the 2018 Winter Paralympics.
While the sport allows both men and women to compete against each other, this rarely happens at the Paralympic level.
They play against Italy on 10 March.
They play against Canada on 12 March.
That day, Norway plays Great Britain.
They play against Sweden on 13 March.
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.
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Two people are representing North Korea at the 2018 Winter Paralympics.
They are Kim Jonghyon and Ma Yuchol.
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.
Georgia, North Korea and Tajikistan are the three countries making their first appearance Winter Paralympics.
Two members of the Korea team are North Koreans.
They first competed internationally at the 2018 Paralympic Nordic Skiing World Cup in Oberried, Germany in January 2018.
Before that, they had a national team training camp near Frankfurt.
In December 2017, they worked with a Canadian coach at a national team training camp in Mount Baektu.
Kim was number 59 in the world in January 2018 in cross country skiing men's sitting race.
He had 516.18 points.
Ma was number 58 in the world in January 2018 in  cross country skiing men's sitting race.
He had 505.88 points.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Kampschreur went to his first Winter Paralympics as the world champion in slalom, giant slalom and super-combined.
Bibian Mentel-Spee has competed at the Paralympics before, winning several medals.
Chris Vos won the World Para Snowboarding Championships four times.
The South Korea Games are her first.
Chris Vos celebrated his 20th birthday in February.
Despite his young age, people thought he could win a medal at the 2018 Winter Games.
During the 2017-2018 snowboarding season, his results were not consistent but his speed was very good.
The lack of consistency was why some people thought he might not be able to win gold.
The program has  snowboard cross starting on 12 March, running from 10:30 AM to 5:00 PM for all classes for both men and women.
Princess Margriet of the Netherlands is going to attend the 2018 Winter Paralympics.
She is a a member of the Honourary Board of the International Paralympic Committee.
She goes on 8 March 2018 and leaves 13 March 2018.
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.
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.
In September 2017, Batmunkh went to a World Cup in Germany.
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  () .
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.
Mexico arrives in Pyeongchang to compete in their fifth Winter Paralympics.
Arly Velásquez will be competing at his third Paralympics in Pyeongchang.
He went to the 2010 and 2014 Winter Paralympics.
He had a big accident at the 2014 Games.
Prior to the 2018 Games, Velásquez lived in Europe for six months.
This was to prepare for the 2018 Games.
Velásquez  started alpine skiing in 2008.
Velásquez was born in Cancun.
When he was a child, he moved to the United States.
When he was a 12-year-old, he an a mountain biking accident.
Because of the accident, he could not use his legs.
He continues to cycle.
Velásquez has represented Mexico internationally in the sport.
2018 in Mexico
Canada sent people to compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
They are competing in para-Nordic skiing, sledge hockey and wheelchair curling.
10 men and 4 women are participating in para-Nordic skiing.
The team has 10 skiers, and 2 guide skiers.
Canada, Norway, Italy and Sweden are in Group A for the sledge hockey competition.
The country has the second largest team among all nations.
It has 55 people.
The team also includes 16 coaches and 26 support staff.
James Anseeuw is the oldest member of the team.
James Dunn is the youngest member of the team.
Canada had several people going to the Games as part of their team.
These were coaches, referees and sports officials.
Ken Babey went to the Games as the coach of the sledge hockey team.
The second event on the program was Super-G. All skiers will raced between 9:30 AM and 1:00 PM on 11 March.
10 men and 4 women are part of Team Canada at the 2018 Winter Paralympics.
Brian McKeever is part of the team, along with his guide skiers Graham Nishikawa and Russell Kennedy.
Kennedy competed in Nordic skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Mark Arendz will be 27 years old in Pyeongchang.
He competed at the 2014 Winter Paralympics, and he won a silver medal in the men´s sprint and a bronze medal in the men's middle distance standing.
Chris Klebl was at the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi, where he won a gold medal the men’s 10-kilometre sit ski race.
Cindy Ouellet has been part of Team Canada at the Summer Paralympics, where she played wheelchair basketball.
She started going to ski races a year before the 2018 Winter Games.
When she was a 12-year-old, Ouellet got bone cancer.
She has a disability because of the bone cancer.
Before she got bone cancer, Ouellet was an alpine skier.
She had dreams of going to the Winter Olympics.
The 2018 Games were the first Games for Collin Cameron and Emily Young.
Young was a wrestler before doing para-Nordic skiing.
On February 21, 2018, Canada Snowboard announced the nominations of 7 athletes (five men and two women) to Team Canada.
Canada finished in the first four at the 2017 Sledge Hockey World Championships.
Canada played in the 2017 World Sledge Hockey Challenge in December in Charlottetown, Canada.
The sledge hockey team went to South Korea after winning bronze at the 2014 Winter Paralympics.
Canada went to Pyeongchang wanting to win a gold medal.
Their biggest competitor was thought to be the United States.
The United States was going to the 2018 Winter Paralympics looking to win their third consecutive Paralympic gold, having claimed gold at the 2010 and 2014 Winter Paralympics.
In comparison, Canada had won three consecutive gold medals at the World Championships, with their most recent gold at the 2017 World Championships A-Pool.
The coach for the 2018 Games is Ken Babey.
He said choosing the 17 players for the team was very hard.
Canada plays against Sweden on 10 March.
They play against Italy on 11 March.
They play against  Norway on 12 March.
Wheelchair curling starts on 10 March.
Canada plays against Sweden on 11 March.
Jedek is an Aslian language from Malaysia.
It is spoken by about 280 people.
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 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series.
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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It makes it easier to add, subtract, and compare fractions.
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6 is the smallest number that can be at the bottom of both of those fractions.
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 (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.
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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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Fox served in the United States House of Representatives representing Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district from 1995 through 1999.
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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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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.
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.
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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).
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