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Sana said about this, "This will be a unique moment in my life and I will try to enjoy it as much as possible."
If a person wins a gold medal, the government pays them €25,000.
A silver medal is worth €15,000.
If they win a bronze medal, they get €10,000.
Coaches of people who win get 10% the amount given to the sportsperson.
Eléonor Sana has been blind since she was born.
She started skiing when she was a child.
She started competing in ski races three years before the 2018 Games.
Her sister is Chloé Sana.
She is Eléonor's guide skier.
They use a microphone and a headset in their helmets to talk to each other.
Eléonor and her older sister won two medals at the 2017 World Championships.
One was a silver and the other was a bronze.
It costs them a lot of money to participate in ski races.
There is not much sponsorship in Belgium.
Chloé said this can make it very difficult to compete in races.
Before the 2018 Games, Chloé wanted to win a medal.
At the same time, she was happy just to be going to Pyeongchang.
Marine Antoine went with the Sana sisters to South Korea.
She was a reserve guide in case an accident or injury happened to Chloe.
Jasper Balcaen finished twenty-ninth at the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi.
He wanted to do better than that in South Korea.
His goal was to finish in the top ten.
After being named to the team in late January 2018, he said, "I am happy and honored to be able to defend my country for the second time at the winter games.
The road to this selection was not always easy and would have been impossible without my family and my 2 trainers Gustav &    Mark Scorgie.
The selection is the result of Teamwork.
I hope this shows that no dream is impossible as long as you keep believing in it! "
He trains in Stubaital, Austria.
He is able to do that because of financial support from Ligue Handisport Francophone.
It started on 10 March, running from 9:30 AM to 1:30 PM.
Brazil sent people to compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
The team included two men and one woman.
Two people competed in para-Nordic skiing.
One competed in para-snowboarding.
Aline Rocha is the first woman to be part of the Brazilian team at the Winter Paralympics.
It is the second time Brazil went to the Winter Paralympics.
They first went in 2014 to the Winter Paralympics in Sochi.
Brazil sent 3 people to Pyeongchang for the 2018 Winter Paralympics.
Two were para-Nordic skiers and one was a para-snowboarder.
The team included Aline Rocha.
She is the first woman to be part of the Brazilian team at the Winter Paralympics.
The country wanted to send 5 people to South Korea.
They had the right to 2 spots in December 2017.
One spot was for a man and one spot was for a woman.
Brazil first competed at the Winter Paralympics in 2014 in Sochi.
André Cintra competed in snowboarding.
Fernando Aranha competed in cross-country skiing.
In 2017 when she was 26-years-old, Aline Rocha finished well in important ski races.
Her finishes meant she had the right to compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics.
One race was a World Cup in Canmore, Canada in December 2017.
She finished 15th in the 800 meter sprint race.
She also finished 15th in the 5 kilometer race.
Rocha started cross country skiing in 2016.
She uses a mono-ski.
She started skiing because Brazilian Winter Paralympic sportsperson Fernando Aranha encouraged her.
In December 2016, she went to Europe.
She wanted to better her skiing results.
She first went to race in Sweden.
In January 2017, she went to a World Cup in Ukraine.
In November 2017, she went to ski races in Germany and Canada.
When she trains in Brazil, she uses a roller ski.
It is similar to a normal racing wheelchair.
She uses ski poles with the chair.
She also trains with a special wheelchair that looks like a snowboard with wheels.
Her coach is Fernando Cassio Orso.
Before cross country skiing, Rocha competed in para-athletics.
She was a T54 classified racer.
She has several national records in athletics.
She also went to the 2016 Summer Paralympics.
She finished ninth in the 1,500 meter T54 race.
After the Winter Paralympics, Rocha wants to go to the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo.
She has a goal of winning a medal in Tokyo.
She quit university so she could try to win the medal in 2020.
Rocha has a disability.
It is because of a car accident when she was a 15-year-old.
The accident damaged her spinal cord.
Cristian Ribera was the last person named to the team for the 2018 Winter Paralympics.
He was named on 15 February 2018.
Ribera races in a sit ski.
He competed at a World Cup in Oberried, Germany in January 2018.
He was in the 7.5 km.
He finished 11th with a time of 23 minutes and 54 seconds.
Ribera is an 18-year-old student.
He is part of the Program of Sports and Adaptive Motor Activities (Peama) and the Management of Sports and Leisure (UGEL).
He wants to become a professional athlete.
He thinks sports are important for including people with disabilities into society.
He started skiing when he was a 15-year-old.
Women's distance
Cintra is going to his second Winter Paralympics.
At the 2014 Winter Paralympics, he finished twenty-eighth.
His goal for 2018 was to be better than he was in 2014.
The snowboard cross program has the race starting on 12 March, running from 10:30 AM to 5:00 PM for all classes for both men and women.
Bosnia and Herzegovina sent people to compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
Only one person was on the team.
It was 19-year-old para-alpine skier Ilma Kazazic.
Bosnia and Herzegovina was represented by only one person at the 2018 Winter Paralympics.
Ilma Kazazic competes in slalom and giant slalom.
Three people will accompany Kazazic.
The total delegation is four people.
The other people are team coach Leon Svetlin, doctor Mirsad Muftić, and chef-de-mission Osman Hadžić.
The team departed for South Korea in late February.
They arrived in the village on 6 March.
The country has never won a medal at the Winter Paralympics.
Before 2018, only three people represented Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Winter Paralympics.
They were Nijaz Memic in 2010 and Ilma Kazazic and Senad Turkovic.
All three are para-alpine skiers.
Ilma Kazazic is representing Bosnia and Herzegovina.
She competes in the slalom and giant slalom races.
Her coach is Leon Svetlin.
2010s in Europe
Bulgaria sent people to compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
The country is sending one person, para-Nordic skier Svetoslav Georgiev.
Georgiev competed at the Paralympics before.
In 2014, he finished 16th in the 1 km sprint qualification race.
Bulgaria is sending one person to compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics.
The person is blind skier Svetoslav Georgiev.
Chairman of the Bulgarian Paralympic Association Iliya Lalov said they do not have high expectations.
The country is good at Summer Paralympics.
They are not good at winter sports like skiing.
Bulgaria has never won a medal at the Winter Paralympics.
The country sent two people to the 2014 Winter Paralympics, and three people to the 2010 Winter Paralympics.
The 2010 team included  Joana Ermenkova, Alexander Stoyanov and Ivan Vatov.
Svetoslav Georgiev competed at the Paralympics before.
That was two spots ahead of the other Bulgarian, Jelez Kolev, who competed in the same race.
His best international ranking has been 27th.
That was in 2014.
The most recent recent ranking was in January 2018.
He was ranked 36th.
Georgiev is a member of the National Sports Academy Ski Club.
He is coached by Ivan Birnikov.
When he was young, his father encouraged him to practice sport.
He started skiing when he was a 7-year-old.
He started competing internationally in 2011.
He was Bulgaria's flag bearer at the closing ceremony of the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi.
He has also represented Bulgaria in para-athletics.
Kazakhstan sent people  to compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
Six people and one guide skier from Kazakhstan will be going to  Pyeongchang, South Korea for the 2018 Winter Paralympics.
All are competing in para-Nordic skiing.
There are six men and one woman.
Three are going to their first Paralympic Games.
They are coached by Vasily Kolomyjets ().
The team spent two years preparing for the Winter Paralympics.
Kazakhstan is not competing in sledge hockey in 2018.
The country is preparing for the future.
They want to compete in sledge hockey in the future.
Kazakhstan created a program in early 2018.
Toyota became a sponsor in October 2017.
Two years before the start of the Games, Kazakstan decided they wanted to win medals in South Korea.
They started on two years of planning and training to accomplish this.
The team spent nearly a year training in Germany before the South Korean hosted Games.
They used snow tunnels during the summer months.
This allowed them to train in winter conditions all year.
During the summer, they also trained using bicycles.
Because of sponsorship, many team members got new prostheses while in Germany.
Kolyadin said of his new prosthetic, "They created a new prosthesis.
When I got it, I tried it.
Now I am accustomed to using it.
I think I will win by using it in the race.
It takes time to learn new technology.
But there is 100% control - I like it."
The team went to Russia for World Cup events.
They did more training in Russia.
They also went to a competition in Finland.
The team returned to Almaty three weeks before the Games started.
This was so they could do additional training.
The national team had about fifteen people.
Only seven are going to South Korea.
Their average age is from about 27 years old to 40 years old.
Japan sent people to compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
The group from Japan was going to compete in para-alpine skiing, para-Nordic skiing, para-snowboarding and sledge hockey.
There were three announcements with who would go to the 2018 Winter Games representing Japan.
The second announcement was made on 8 February 2018.
The last announcement was made on 18 February 2018.
The last announcement said two male para-alpine skiers would be going to South Korea.
The country has the third largest team among all nations.
It has 38 people.
The second event on the program is Super-G. All skiers raced between 9:30 AM and 1:00 PM on 11 March.
Anna Schaffelhuber of Germany won gold in the women's downhill sitting race.
Momoka Muraoka of Japan won silver.
Laurie Stephens of the United States won bronze.
Keiichi Sato competes in two sports: para-triathlon and para-Nordic skiing.
The first sport he did was para-Nordic skiing.
As a member of Team Japan, he went to the 2010 and 2014 Winter Paralympics.
After para-triathlon became a Paralympic sport, Sato decided to try it.
He then was part of Team Japan at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.
He then went to the 2017 Triathlon World Championships.
After that, he stopped competing in para-triathlon.
He wanted to try to medal at the 2018 Winter Paralympics.
He thought he needed to focus on para-Nordic skiing to do that.
Thee sprint classic qualification takes place on 14 March from 10:00 AM – 11:25 AM for both men and women in all classes.
Atsushi Yamamoto is a track and field competitor.
He won a silver medal in the men's T42 long jump at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.
In November 2017, he went to the World Para Snowboard World Cup in Landgraaf, Netherlands.
The World Cup was his first para-snowboarding competition.
Also there was Daniel Wagner of Denmark.
Wagner won gold in the event which Yamamoto won silver.
Both men had decided to compete internationally in snowboarding during the same year.
The snowboard cross event starts on 12 March.
It goesfrom 10:30 AM to 5:00 PM for all classes for both men and women.
Japan's team has 17 men.
Their coach is Kojin Nakakita.
To the Games
Japan, Sweden and the Czech Republic were the last 3 teams that were able to go to the 2018 Games.
They could go because of how they finished at the Qualification Tournament in October in Ostersund, Sweden in October 2017.
The United States, South Korea, the Czech Republic and Japan were in Group B for the sledge hockey competition.
Japan plays against South Korea on 10 March.
They play the Czech Republic on 13 March.
Media and television
For the first time, the Paralympic Games will be live on television.
The 2018 Games will be on NHK.
People can watch on NHK General TV and NHK Educational TV channels.
Some will be televised with a resolution of 8K.  There are going to be 62 hours of live coverage.
Italy sent people to compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
They are competing in para-alpine skiing, para-Nordic skiing, para-snowboarding and sledge hockey.
Italy finished in the first four at the 2017 Sledge Hockey World Championships.
This was why they could compete in sledge hockey at the 2018 Winter Paralympics
17-year-old Giacomo Bertagnolli went to Slovenia in January 2018.
She competed in the World Cup in Kranjska Gora.
Giacomo won the 2017 Para Alpine World Championships in the super combined race.
Mac Marcoux won gold in the men's visually impaired downhill race.
Jakub Krako of Slovakia won silver.
Giacomo Bertagnolli of Italy won bronze.
In the men's Super-G visually impaired race, Jakub Krako of Slovakia won gold, Giacomo Bertagnolli of Italy won silver, and Miroslav Haraus of Slovakia won bronze.
Going to the Games
This was why they could compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics.
Italy played in the 2017 World Sledge Hockey Challenge in December in Charlottetown, Canada.
Norway lost to Italy 4 - 3 in overtime at a tournament in Turin in January 2018.
Canada, Norway, Italy and Sweden were in Group A for the sledge hockey competition.
They play against Norway on 10 March.
They play against Canada on 11 March.
Iceland sent people to compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
Iceland sent one man to Pyeongchang.
He competed in para-alpine skiing.
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.
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.
Hungary sent people  to compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
The country is sending three people to the games: One blind skier and his guide in para-alpine skiing and one woman para-Nordic skiing.
Hungary is returning to the Paralympics after having not gone to the 2014 Games in Sochi.
Zsolt Balogh will be the first person who is blind to represent Hungary at the Winter Paralympics.
In June 2017, the National Paralympic Committee of Hungary, Magyar Paralimpiai Bizottság (MPB), announced the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) had given them a quota of at least three spots.
There were two spots for para-Nordic skiing and one spot for para-alpine skiing.
The spot for para-alpine skiing was because of the performance of blind skier Zsolt Balogh and his guide skier Bence Bocsi.
The para-Nordic skiing spots were earned by Krisztina Lőrincz.
She is an LW10.5 classified sit skier.
MPB representative Laszlo Szabó said of this, "The successes at the Rio Games gave new impetus to Hungarian athletes.
We are proud to be able to represent our country at the Winter Paralympics, and in the last Winter Games organized in Sochi there was no Hungarian sportspeople.
It's a great success that we can start in three of the six sports contested Winter Paralympic Games, thanks to the great athletes and their coaches whose work here is to be thanked."
The three spots was one more than the government had been targeting earlier in the year.
The goal was to earn two spots.
Zsolt Balogh and his guide skier Bence Bocsi, and Krisztina Lőrincz were officially named to the team in November 2017.
Balogh is the first person who is blind to represent Hungary at the Winter Paralympics.
Hungary first went to the Winter Paralympics in 2002.
Their best results were at the 2006 Winter Paralympics.
Agnes Vas competed in the women's slalom sitting race.
She finished ninth.
Hungary did not go to the 2014 Winter Paralympics.
At the 2010 Winter Paralympics, people only competed in para-alpine skiing.
Funding and support
Zsolt Balogh is blind and skis with his guide skier Bence Bocsi.
After he was officially named to the team, Balogh said, "We have worked hard in preparation and qualification in recent years so it is a great pleasure for us to achieve our first goal: we can be in the games.
We expect a very tough race, and there are dozens of good riders in this category.
With lots of practice, good snow conditions and with a little luck, we can score good results."
Krisztina Lőrincz is an LW10.5 sit skier, competing in both cross country skiing and biathlon.
In the lead up to Pyeongchang 2018, Lőrincz trained on rollers on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
She practiced shooting on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
On long weekends, she would do other training focused on improving her body.
She also worked with a sports psychologist.
Lőrincz did this while working six to seven hours a day.
One of the main reasons Lőrincz participates in para-Nordic skiing is she enjoys shooting.
Otherwise, she prefers cycling to skiing.
She narrowly missed out on going to the 2014 Winter Paralympics after trying, and failing, to qualify for the Games.
Since January 2017, she has been coached by Kristóf Lágler.
Her qualifying for the 2018 Winter Paralympics was easier because of the ban on Russian skiers from participating.
Krisztina Lőrincz represented Hungary at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in adapted rowing.
She finished 11th.
Outside of sports, she works as a human resources specialist.
She was in a car accident in 2005.
Because of that, she has a disability.
The sprint classic qualification takes place on 14 March from 10:00 AM – 11:25 AM for both men and women in all classes.
The 7.5 km race standing and visually impaired women's race takes place from 10:00 AM - 12:30.
Greece sent people to compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
One person is representing Greece.
It is snowboarder Konstantinos Petrakis.
It is the first time a snowboarder has represented Greece at the Winter Paralympics.
Greece first went to the Winter Paralympics in 2002.
The 2018 Games are the fifth time they sent a team to the Winter Paralympics.
Greece is going to have a team that includes one snowboarder, Konstantinos Petrakis.
Konstantinos Petrakis is from Veria.
Petrakis is only racing in the snowboard cross.
He has won five medals in his career in the event.
It goes from 10:30 AM to 5:00 PM for all classes for both men and women.
Great Britain sent people to compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
The team has people in para-snowboarding, para-alpine skiing and wheelchair curling.
People are from  Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland  Unlike football and some other sports, citizens from these countries are part of the same team at the Olympics and Paralympics.
The competition was also broadcast on television on Channel 4.
The first team announcement for Great Britain was made on 15 January 2018.
The full team for Great Britain was made on 15 February 2018.
Scott Meenagh has been selected to compete in both the biathlon and cross-country skiing competitions.
Great Britain will send a total of 17 athletes to the games.
This is the most sent by the British team since 2006.
Many times, Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland compete as separate countries at sports events around the world.
Because of the past, these four countries compete as one country at the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Some  Crown dependencies and some British Overseas Territories also are part of Great Britain for these sporting events.
People in Northern Ireland do not like the name because it does not include them.
Before the start of the 2018 Winter Olympics, people from Great Britain had won more medals in the Winter Paralympics than the Winter Olympics.
People won one bronze medal at the Winter Olympics.
People won over five medals in the Winter Paralympics.
Mille Knight became blind when she was a 6-year-old.
In 2017, she finished her A Levels.
That year, she also won seven gold medals at IPC Alpine Skiing World Cup races.
Kelly Gallagher is blind.
She skis with her guide skier Charlotte Evans.
They went to the 2014 Winter Paralympics.
Gallagher and Evans won a gold medal in the Super-G.  Gallagher wanted to win more medals in South Korea.
B2 classified skier Millie Knight won silver in women's downhill vision impaired race.
In the women's Super-G visually impaired race, Henrieta Farkasova of Slovakia won gold, Millie Knight of Great Britain won silver and Menna Fitzpatrick won bronze.
Great Britain is not a country where people with disabilities do para-Nordic skiing.
Scott Meenagh was the first para-Nordic skier to go to the Winter Paralympics in 28 years.
Meenagh was a service member in Afghanistan.
After an attack, he lost both of his legs.
After his injuries, he tried para-athletics and adaptive rowing.
In March 2016, he first tried para-Nordic skiing.
The team starts playing on 10 March.
They play against Sweden on 12 March.
Some media for the 2018 Games in the UK is on the BBC Sport website and app and on BBC Radio 5 live.
Germany sent people to compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
There were 19 people from Germany competing in South Korea.
10 were women and 9 were men.
They competed in  para-alpine skiing, para-Nordic skiing and wheelchair curling.
Germany tried to go to the Winter Paralympics in sledge hockey.
The team needed to win some competitions.
Because they lost, they could not go to South Korea.
Sports leaders from Germany were not happy Russia was allowed to compete at the Games.
Para-Nordic skier  Andrea Eskau went to her sixth Paralympic Games in 2018.
They are competing in para-alpine skiing, para-Nordic skiing and wheelchair curling.
The team has 10 women and 9 men.
There were 9 people going to their first Paralympic Games.
The team was named by the German Disabled Sports Association 38 days before the Games started.
The Chef-de-Mission was Karl Quade.
People thought Germany should win a lot of medals at the 2018 Winter Paralympics.
They thought this because Germany sent 13 people to the 2014 Winter Paralympics.
These 13 people won 15 total medals.
Because they lost them, they could not go to South Korea.
Before the 2018 Winter Paralympics, German Disabled Sports Association President Julius Beucher and Chef-de-Mission was Karl Quade were not happy.
The International Paralympic Committee said some Russians could go to South Korea to compete.
Beucher and Quade did not like this.
They questioned if the sportspeople from Russia were "clean".
They wanted a Winter Paralympics where there was no doping.
Anna Schaffelhuber is one of the best people for Germany at the Winter Paralympics.
She competed at the 2014 Winter Paralympics.
She won 5 gold medals in 5 races.
She goes to Pyeongchang looking to defend her crown.
Marie Bochet from France won gold in the women's downhill standing.
Andrea Rothfuss from Germany won silver.
Mollie Jepsen from Canada won bronze.
Momoka Murakoa of Japan won silver.
In the women's Super-G standing race, Marie Bochet of France won gold, Andrea Rothfuss of Germany won silver, and Alana Ramsay of Canada won bronze.
Martin Fleig and Anja Wicker both were members of the Germany team at the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi.
Before the start of the 2018 Games, people thought they could win medals.
Wicker won 2 medals in biathlon at earlier Paralympic Games.
Clara Klug is blind.
Her first Paralympic Games were in 2018.
Before they left for Pyeongchang, Wicker gave Klug advice about the Paralympics.
Before South Korea, Andrea Eskau went to 5 Paralympic Games.
These were the 2008 and 2012 Summer Paralympics for cycling, and the 2006, 2010, 2014 Winter Paralympics for para-Nordic skiing.
They play Sweden on 13 March.
Georgia sent people to compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
The team has two people who are competing in para-Nordic skiing.
One is a man and one is a woman.
Georgia leaves to go to  Pyeongchang on March 6.
Georgia, North Korea and Tajikstan are the three countries making their first appearance Winter Paralympics.
Temuri Dadiani competes in three sports: cycling, wheelchair fencing and para-Nordic skiing.
He competed in cycling at the 2017 Invictus Games.
He has a Guinness World Record.
It is for doing 44 push-ups in one minute.
Dadiani was in the military.
While an officer in Afghanistan in August 2011, he was hit by a landmine.
Doctors amputated both his legs.
Nino Sabashvili had a goal of winning a Paralympic medal.
Her first sport is para-armwrestling.
The sport is not on the program for the Summer or Winter Paralympic Games.
She started para-Nordic skiing so she could compete in a sport that is on the program.
She is very good at para-armwrestling.
At the 2016 World Para Armwrestling Championships in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, she won two silver medals.
France sent people to compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
There will be twelve people from France.
Four people from France competed in para-snowboarding.
Five people competed in para-alpine skiing.
Six skiers and 2 guide skiers competed in para-alpine skiing.
Marie Bochet was chosen to carry the flag during the Opening Ceremony.
People from France went to the 2018 Winter Paralympics in para-alpine skiing, para-Nordic skiing and para-snowboarding.
People on the team were Benjamin Daviet and Cécile Hernandez.
She was chosen 100 days before the 2018 Games started.
The first people were included on the team in September 2017.
The list included Thomas Clarion.
The team has 12 people.
Before the 2018 Winter Paralympics, France was seventh for having the most Winter Paralympic medals.
They had won 52 gold medals, 47 silver medals and 52 gold medals.
Of these 151 medals, 12 were won at the 2014 Winter Paralympics.
France won 5 gold medals, 3 silver medals and 4 bronze medals in Sochi.
They ranked fifth for medals.
There were 5 skiers from France.
They were Arthur Bauchet, Marie Bochet, Jordan Broisin, Frederic François and Yohann Taberlet.
Bochet had already gone to four Winter Paralympic Games before South Korea.
Bochet competes in women's standing alpine skiing.
She won gold at the 2017 Para Alpine World Championships in the Super-G and super combined.
She won four medals at the 2014 Winter Paralympics.
She also was first at the end of four World Cup seasons in the overall category.
At the 9 January 2018 World Cup in Zagreb, François won gold in the men's sitting slalom race.
At 41-years-old, it was his first World Cup victory.
It also made him one of the oldest people to win a World Cup event.
Bochet went to Slovenia in January 2018.
In the men's Super-G sitting race, Kurt Oatway of Canada won gold, Andrew Kurka of the United States won silver, and Frederic Francois of France won bronze.
Benjamin Daviet was at the 2014 Winter Paralympics.
He did not win a medal.
His best finish was seventh.
The first medal he won at a major competition was in 2017 at a race in Finsterau.
Thomas Dubois first represented France at racing at the 2017 World Cup in Ukraine.
Before that, he was the French junior champion in biathlon and cross-country skiing.
He finished second in biathlon and cross-country skiing at the senior French championships.
Dubois became blind when he was an 8-year-old because of a genetic disorder.
He needs to ski with a guide skier.
Unlike other countries, Fédération française handisport does not give money to guide skiers to help blind skiers with the cost of competing.
To get the right to go to and practice for the Winter Paralympics, it cost €21,000.
Dubois had to raise money to be able to pay for that.
Maubourguet Lions Club helped Dubois get the money for the Winter Paralympics.
There were 3 snowboarders from France at the 2018 Winter Paralympics.
Snowboarders from France went to Pirineo at the last part of January 2018 to get ready for the 2018 Winter Paralympics.
Cécile Hernandez was one of the snowboarders from France.
She went to the 2014 Winter Paralympics.
It was the first Paralympics for Montaggioni and Roulet.
Hernandez and Roulet have arm disabilities.
Montaggioni has a problem with her legs.
They are coached by Olivier Noiret and Marcos Lorenzo.
Finland sent people to compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
They competed in para-alpine skiing, para-Nordic skiing, para-snowboarding and wheelchair curling.
Sini Pyy went to the 2014 Winter Paralympics.
Ilkka Tuomisto competed at the 2006, 2010 and 2014 Winter Paralympics.
He won a silver medal at the 2017 World Championships in the 20 kilometer race.
Inkki Inola is competing in his first Paralympic Games in South Korea.
His guide skier is Vili Sormunen.
Rudolf Klemetti is a blind skier.
He competed at the 2002, 2010 and 2014 Winter Paralympics.
His guide skier is Jaakko Kallunki.
Juha Härkönen went to the 2014 Winter Paralympics.
The 2018 Winter Paralympics are his second Games.
Matti Suur-Hamari competed at the 2014 Winter Paralympics.
He won two gold medals at the 2017 World Para Snowboarding Championships in the men’s cross and banked slalom SB-LL2.
Earlier this year, Suur-Hamari also won the men’s cross and banked slalom SB-LL2 events at World Cups in Landgraaf and Pyha.
Before the Games, the people who will make it hard for Suur-Hamari to medal in South Korea were thought to be Americans Evan Strong and Mike Shea, and Gurimu Narita of Japan.
Matti Sairanen is competing at his first Paralympic Games in South Korea.
In November 2017, Finland played in a tournament in Estonia.
Estonia was first, and Latvia was second.
Neither Estonia nor Latvia are going to the 2018 Winter Paralympics.
Sari Karjalainen competed at the 2014 Winter Paralympics.
Vesa Leppänen is going to his first Games in South Korea.
Markku Karjalainen went to the 2014 Winter Paralympics.
He also competed in the 1992 Summer Paralympics.
Riitta Särösalo is competing in her first Games in 2018.
Yrjö Jääskeläinen is also competing at this first Paralympics in South Korea.
Skip Sari Karjalainen is married to fourth player Markku Karjalainen.
Wheelchair curling competition starts on 10 March.
On 14 March, Finland plays against Sweden.
Denmark sent people to compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
There will be at least one person competing in para-snowboarding.
In autumn of 2017, responsibility for sending a team to the Paralympics was changed from Parasport Denmark, the National Paralympic Committee of Denmark, to  National Olympic Committee and Sports Confederation of Denmark (DIF).
The decision was made because people wanted to make Olympic and Paralympic sport more equal.
Niels Christiansen, secretary general of Parasport Denmark, said, "We are very happy with the move, and we look forward to working together with DIF.
The Paralympics and the development and preparation of world class Para-athletes is still very much a focal point of our work in Parasport Denmark, but allowing DIF to take the reigns sends an important message and hopefully it will lead to even more Paralympic success for Denmark."
Despite this change, Parasport Denmark was still in charge of preparing to send a team to the Winter Paralympic Games.
Denmark first went to the Winter Paralympics in 1980 in Geilo.
Before South Korea, they had won a total of two gold medals, one silver medal and three bronze medals at the Winter Games.
Both of their gold medals and all of their bronze medals were won by para-Nordic blind skier Anne-Mette Bredahl.
Her gold medals were in the  biathlon 7.5 kilometres free technique B 1-3 race.
The last time the country won a medal at the 1994 Winter Paralympics.
Denmark sends few people to the Winter Paralympics.
They sent six people to the 2006 Winter Paralympics, and two people to the 2010 and 2014 Games.
Daniel Wagner is a two sport competitor.
He was part of the Denmark team at the 2016 Summer Paralympics, where he won a gold medal.
Wagner was the world champion in the long jump.
It starts at 10:30 AM and goes to 5:00 PM for all classes for both men and women.
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.
Czech Republic sent people to compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
People are competing two sports: para-alpine skiing and sledge hockey.
There were 24 sportspeople, 16 support people and 4 administrators.
First allocated four sports in para-alpine skiing, the country won two more spots and are sending six skiers.
The sledge hockey team goes to South Korea after qualifying at a tournament in Sweden.
They had financial difficulties before the Winter Paralympics because of corruption in sports funding.
This made it more difficult to train and compete for the 2018 Games.
In June 2017, the Executive Committee of the Czech Paralympic Committee (ČPV) was told by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) they had been given four spots to send people to the 2018 Winter Paralympics to compete in para-alpine skiing.
Three of these spots were for men, and one was for a woman.
Patrik Hetmer was the first skier to be nominated for inclusion on the 2018 team going to Pyeongchang.
In September 2017,  Pavel Bambousek, Miroslav Lidinský and Anna Pešková seemed to be the most likely skiers to be named to the team in para-alpine skiing.
The full team was named by the ČPV on 6 February 2018.
It included people in two sports: para-alpine skiing and sledge hockey.
Anička Pešková was the only woman representing the Czech Republic in Pyeongchang.
The team included 6 alpine-skiers and their 2 guides.
Tomáš Vaverka, who competed at the 2014 Winter Paralympics in snowboarding, was selected to compete in para-alpine skiing.
The team had a training camp in early autumn 2017 on the glaciers in the Czech Republic.
This was to prepare for their first races, which took place in November in Landgraaf, Netherlands.
After that, the team went Pitztal to race.
Health Care in the Hradec Králové supported Czech para-alpine skiers before Winter Games.
This program was supervised by  Deputy Governor for Health Care Ing.
Aleš Cabicar.
Shesaid, "The project of the handicapped skiers center is known, especially their teaching program, which they realize in the Krkonoše Mountains.
I am very glad that successful athletes are being prepared in our region to achieve great results.
When the representatives of the Center approached me with the request for support and support, I did not hesitate and I am glad that the Hradec Králové Region is one of the partners of the Czech representatives."
He competed at the 2014 Winter Paralympics.
Hetmer has a vision impairment.
The blind skier races with guide skier Miroslav Máčka.
The blind skier is accompanied by her guide skier, Michaela Hubačová.
Pešková won a medal at the 2010 Winter Paralympics.
She returned to alpine-skiing in 2017 after taking maternity leave.
Benjamínek Tadeáš Kříž is racing in South Korea with guide skier Radim Nevrlý.
The team had a goal of winning a bronze at the 2018 Winter Paralympics.
They thought their biggest competition would be the United States and Canada.
It was the third time the Czech Republic had gone to the Winter Paralympics.
Their first appearance at the Winter Games was in 2010.
They went again in 2014.
Defensemen Pavel Doležal and Karel Wagner are going to their first games.
The other defensemen were all part of the team that went to Sochi.
Michal Geier, Zdeněk Hábl, Zdeněk Krupička, Zdeněk Šafránek, David Palat, David Motyčka, Zdeněk Klíma and Martin Novák are the centers and wingers, playing in the attacking positions.
The team is coached by Jiří Bříza.
He has been leading the team since 2013.
Jan Katauer is an assistance coach, and Jakub Novotny is the goaltender coach.
In the two years before the start of the Winter Games, the sledge hockey team dealt with financial difficulties.
Corruption in the Czech Republic involving subsidies for sport resulted in the national team getting less money to support their training and ability to compete in tournaments.
FAČR Chairman Miroslav Pelta was arrested as part of the corruption issues.
About the corruption, team captain Zdeněk Šafránek said, "The subsidy scandal has radically reduced the amount we receive.
For the sake of illustration, the Czech Paralympic Committee has now gotten less money than last year's sledge hockey players, and it has to be divided into a lot of sports."
The team could not buy time to use ice at skating rinks to train much before their final qualifying competition in Sweden.
They also could not buy new equipment like sledges, hockey sticks or hockey gloves.
To make sure they were ready to qualify, the captain thought the team needed around 1 million Czech Koruna () to pay for all the costs of training and traveling.
Because they could not get funding from the government, players had to ask individuals to support them financially.
Teams participating in the tournament included Sweden, Germany, Slovakia, Japan and Great Britain.
They play South Korea on 11 March.
They play the United States on 12 March.
The Czech Republic plays Japan on 13 March.
Some of the Paralympics would be broad on television by ČT TV and ČT Sport.
Live streaming of the Winter Games was also made available free on ČT Sport's website.
Croatia sent people to compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
One person representing Croatia is para-alpine skier Dino Sokolovič.
He stopped skiing in 2016 for 20 months because of an injury.
Dino Sokolovič is a standing skier.
He was injured in 2016.
Because of the injury, he did not ski for 20 months.
Dino Sokolovič  went to Slovenia in January 2018.
After 20 months away from skiing because of an injury, he won his first race at Kranjska Gora.
China sent people to compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
China had never won a medal at the Winter Paralympics prior to the start of the 2018 Winter Games.
They have a team competing in wheelchair curling.
The best finish they had was fourth at the 2014 Winter Paralympics.
Their wheelchair curling team finished fourth.
China's best individual finish was also in 2014.
Peng Yuanyuan finished fifth in the  women's cross-country skiing 5 km classic style standing.
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.
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.
Vega competed at the 2014 Winter Paralympics for Chile.
He was the only member of the team to do that.
The 2018 Games will be the first for Bisquert, Seguel and Soto.
Preparation for the Paralympics
The skiers go to Pyeongchang wanting to do better than they did in the past.
Chile competed in para-alpine skiing at the 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2014 Winter Paralympics.
The best finish they had was in 2010 when Patricio Morande finished fourteenth in the giant slalom.
The coach is Carlos Torres.
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.
From November 2017 to February 2018, they went to 15 races in Europe, the United States and Canada .
They also had national team training camps.
The skiers
Julio Soto
Soto went to competition in North America in January 2018.
In the Giant Slalom race, he had a time of 1 minute and 31 seconds and finished sixth.
Because of his finish, Soto went to South Korea and was able to compete in the Giant Slalom race.
At the same competition in Winter Park, Bisquertt finished first in the Giant Slalom race.
He beat world champion Corey Peters in the race.
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.
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.
The United States sent people to compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
The team is competing in para-alpine skiing, para-Nordic skiing, para-snowboarding, sledge hockey and wheelchair curling.
It has 63 people.
The World Para Alpine Skiing World Cup Finals took place in Kimberly, British Columbia in February 2018.
The event was the last one used to decide who would represent the United States at the 2018 Games.
The team to go was announced on 20 February 2018.
In the men's downhill sitting race, Andrew Kurka of the United States won gold.
He also won a silver in the men's Super-G sitting race.
The last date that countries could nominate people for their para-Nordic skiing teams at the 2018 Games was 23 February 2018.
Kendall Gretsch won two gold medals in the first two days of competition.
One was in biathlon's women's 6 km race.
The other was in cross country skiing's women's 12 km sitting race.
Daniel Cnossen won two medals in the first two days of competition.
His first was a gold in the men's 7.5 km sitting biathlon race.
His second was a silver in cross country skiing's men's 15 km sitting race.
The World Para Snowboard World Cup Finals in Big White, British Columbia took place in February 2018.
The event was the final one used to decide who would represent the United States at the 2018 Games.
On February 20, the names of the U.S. Paralympic Snowboarding Team were made public.
The USA finished in the first four at the 2017 Sledge Hockey World Championships.
Before the Games started, American wheelchair curlers had a few important dates in preparation for the Games.
These included the U.S. Open in Utica, New York  in December 2017, the Kisakallio Cup in Kisakallio, Finland in January 2018, and Sochi Open in January 2018.
They started play on 10 March.
The country has the largest team among all nations.
New Zealand, Sweden and the United States were the first countries to name people to their teams.
The people won their places by November 2017.
19 February 2018 was the deadline for American alpine skiers to get 2017-18 season race points in at least one race to be eligible to represent the United States at the Paralympic Games.
In December 2017, the World Para Nordic Skiing World Cup took place in Canmore, Alberta.
The World Para Nordic Skiing World Cup in Oberried, Germany took place in January 2018.
The last date that countries could nominate people for their teams at the 2018 Games was 23 February 2018.
Blind skier Danelle Umstead is married to her guide skier, Rob Umstead.
The two call themselves "Vision4Gold".
Umstead is one of the few mothers competing in South Korea.
Oksana Masters was born in 1989 in the Ukraine, near the Chernobyl site.
Her disability was because of the radiation from the accident in 1986.
When she was 7-years-old, she was adopted by a woman from the United States who said she should play sports.
Masters tried very hard, and later went to the 2012 Summer Paralympics where she competed in adapted rowing.
After the 2012 Games, she had pain in her back and changed to para-Nordic skiing.
Cross country skiing events take place on 10, 11, 14, 17 and 18 of March.
Biathlon events take place on 10, 13 and 16 of March.
Dan Cnossen won the first gold medal for the United States in biathlon.
He won gold in the men's 7.5 km sitting race.
To be eligible to represent the United States at the Paralympic Games, American snowboarders had to get season race points in at least one race in the 2017-18 season.
The deadline to get the points was 19 February 2018.
They went to South Korea after winning a gold medal in sledge hockey at the 2014 Winter Paralympics.
The United States went to the 2018 Winter Paralympics looking to win their third consecutive Paralympic gold, having claimed gold at the 2010 and 2014 Winter Paralympics.
Canada was thought to be their biggest competitor.
They had won three consecutive gold medals at the World Championships, with their most recent gold at the 2017 World Championships A-Pool.
The United States national sledge hockey team played in several tournaments and friendly games to get ready for the Winter Paralympics.
The team played in the December 2017 World Sled Hockey Challenge in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
They played in the Para Ice Hockey International Tournament in Turin, Italy in January 2018.
They also played in the 2018 Border Series in Buffalo, New York and Pt.
Colborne, Ontario in February 2018.
19-year-old Brody Roybal is from Chicago.
He was part of the United States national sledge hockey team at the 2014 Winter Paralympics.
He won a gold medal at those games.
He started playing sledge hockey in 2006.
He was born with a congenital, bilateral amputation.
Joe Misiewicz will be competing at his first Paralympic Games in Pyeongchang as a 29-year-old.
When he was with the 1st Battalion 5th Marines in Afghanistan, he was injured.
This happened during a patrol, when his vehicle hit an improvised explosive devise.
Because of injury, he is a double above-knee amputee.
Chicagoan Kevin McKee also was part of the United States national sledge hockey team at the 2014 Winter Paralympics.
Competing with the team, he won a gold medal in Sochi.
in 2018, he was ranked third on the national team.
This was based on his performance at the World Sled Hockey Challenge in December 2017.
McKee has sacral agenesis.
He was born with this disorder.
They played against Japan on 10 March.
They play against the Czech Republic on 11 March.
They play against South Korea on 12 March.
The national team first decided who might be part of the national team in September 2017 in Incheon, South Korea.
The second time when the national team said some people may not be able to go was at an event in Green Bay, Wisconsin in October 2017.
The final choice of who would be on Team USA for the 2018 Games was made at USA National Team event in Wausau, Wisconsin in early November 2017.
They started playing on 10 March.
They played against Sweden on 11 March.
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 Uzbekistan will go to the Winter Paralympics.
Skiers from Uzbekistan were invited to compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics.