olympics 2018 torrent download 167,476 Pyeongchang Premium High Res Photos. Browse 167,476 2018 winter olympics pyeongchang stock photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. Choose your country or region. United States. Hi IBMer! The IBM strategic repository for digital assets such as images and videos is located at dam.ibm.com. This repository is populated with tens of thousands of assets and should be your first stop for asset selection. Click here to request Getty Images Premium Access through IBM Creative Design Services. How to Sound Like an Expert While You Watch , Adam Rippon and Skate. F igure skating is taking center stage at the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics as the Men’s Single Skating Short Program just wrapped up. Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan came away with the top score and rival American figure skater Nathan Chen fell short of expectations, leading many to send optimistic messages and wishes to send hugs online. Fellow American skater Adam Rippon also gave an electrifying performance and garnered a score of 87.95. However, those scores and all the smaller scores it encompasses can be hard to follow. This is your guide to everything you need to know about Olympic figure skating before the Ice Dance and Ladies Single Skating competitions. What are the 2018 figure skating events? Next on the Olympic figure skating schedule are the Men’s Single and medal ceremony and Ice Dance before the Ladies’ Single Skating closes out the competition. The men take the ice, where Chen is likely to once again face off against Japan’s Hanyu, the reigning Olympic champion, for the title. In ice dance, another rivalry between France’s and and Canada’s and will make the competition interesting; the U.S. also has three teams, Madison Chock and Evan Bates, Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue, and Maia and Alex Shibutani, who could earn a medal. Finally it’s the women’s turn; training teammates from Russia and will skate for gold, but don’t count out the U.S.’s Bradie Tennell, who has had a charmed season and could also earn a medal. The first skating competition was the team event, in which 10 countries compete in ladies, men, pairs and ice dance. Canada and Russia are likely to battle for gold, and the U.S. has a chance to make the podium as well. Next are the pairs; the German team of Aliona Savchenko and Bruno Masso, and Cong of , and Megan Duhamell and of Canada, all world medalists, will be skating for medals. How does figure skating scoring work? The International Skating Union instituted a new set of judging rules in 2006, based on a Code of Points. Under this system, every element a figure skater completes — a jump, or a spin or footwork — is assigned a point value, or base value. That’s the number you will often see in the small box on the upper left of your TV screen. The leader’s technical score will be on top (L) while the current (C) skater’s score will appear underneath. Every skater starts out with a different number of points depending on what they have decided to include in the routine. Skaters with more technical abilities have a slight edge under this system, since they can start out ahead of their competitors and stay at the top of the leaderboard, as long as they are able to execute everything they had planned. To make things complicated, the nine judges in figure skating can add or subtract up to three points from this base value, depending on how well a skater performed it. (This is what NBC skating commentators Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir mean when they talk about Grade of Execution, or GOE scores.) If the jump is under rotated, for example (meaning the skater doesn’t complete the full number of revolutions in the air, but finishes the last quarter or half on the ice), it could lose points. So a triple axel worth 8.5 if performed correctly could drop down to 8.0 or less if it’s not. The highest and lowest GOEs from the nine judges are dropped and the remainder are averaged and added to the base value. There is also a Program Components score, which includes how well a skater executed all the skills, their musicality, how well put together the program was, and other less objective measures. The presentation score is judged on a scale of 1 to 10, and the scores from the nine judges are averaged. A skater’s overall score is the combination of the technical elements and the weighted average of the program components scores. Every time a figure skater falls, he or she loses one point. These rules apply for all four of the disciplines — ladies, men, pairs and ice dance. How has figure skating scoring changed? Olympic figure skating used to be relatively easy to watch — at least when it came to understanding the scores. Figure skaters were judged on a 1 to 6.0 scale, with 6.0 representing perfection. Their score was determined by averaging the judges’ marks for their technical prowess and their presentation. Technically, every skater started at 6.0 and judges deducted for mistakes and other errors in execution from there. The problem, as the Great Olympic Figure Skating Judging Scandal of 2002 revealed, was that this measure was subject to, well, a lot of subjectivity. (In the pairs event at the Salt Lake City Games, judges were exchanging votes and manipulating scores to rig the results.) As a result, some changes were made in 2006 to how Olympic figure skating is scored, and those rules are in place for the 2018 Winter in PyeongChang, South Korea. Here’s what to watch for when tuning in to this year’s figure skating events, including how figure skates will be scored. How does team figure skating scoring work? Beginning in 2014, a new Olympic figure skating event was introduced — the team event. Ten countries are invited to participate, and can enter skaters for each of the four disciplines. Just as with the individual events, each discipline — such as pairs — has a short and long program, and after the short program, countries can choose to change up to two skaters. Countries receive points depending on where their skaters finish from first to 10th place, with first place earning 10 points, and 10th place earning one point. The countries with the five highest scores move on to compete in the long program for each discipline, and the top three finishers make the podium. It’s not a perfect system — in any judged sport, there will always be disagreement, dissension and discord, but it’s a better way to measure how one skater’s skills stack up against another’s. What other figure skating terms are there? If you want to sound smart about figure skating, throw in words like axel, salchow and and lutz (and see our video about how to tell them apart). You’ll thank us. Correction: The original version of this story misstated the highest potential score under the old figure skating judging system. It was 6.0, not 10.0. Olympic Games Replay: Fantastic figure skating from Pyeongchang 2018. Electrifying ice dance final featured Canadian flag bearers Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir. As the planet deals with the pandemic and the crisis involving the spread of COVID-19, the world of sport watches and waits alongside the global population. This Saturday, March 21, will be the first of five weeks of programming at CBC Sports which will showcase some of the memorable moments from the most recent editions of the Olympics. The first week features figure skating from the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea. They turned out to be competitions where Canadian skaters excelled. The Canadians won four medals, more than any other country, including a gold medal in the hotly contested team competition. LISTEN | Tessa Virtue on Player's Own Voice: There were plenty of skating highlights on South Korean ice, not the least of which was the electrifying ice dance final featuring the Canadian flag bearers Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir. The duo ended up becoming the most decorated Olympic figure skaters of all-time as a result of their dramatic victory over Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron of France with a riveting performance before a packed house in the rink and countless millions watching around the world on television. "If the Canadians had played to an empty arena, the French surely would have won," Brenda Irving reflected. She called play-by-play of figure skating for CBC at the Games alongside four-time world champion Kurt Browning, and international coach Carol Lane. 'I could feel the excitement' "The audience, in my opinion, played an immeasurable role in the eventual win by Virtue and Moir," Irving continued. I could feel the excitement, electricity, or whatever you want to call it, in the air when the Canadians skated. When they landed in their finishing pose, I honestly felt the judges would have no choice but to succumb to the will of the people." LISTEN | Scott Moir on Player's Own Voice: The other Canadian medals in figure skating were produced by two-time world champions and veteran skaters and Eric Radford who claimed bronze in the pairs competition. And then there was Newfoundland's Kaetlyn Osmond who rose to the occasion by calmly earning bronze in the women's, singles, event as she competed against the talented teenagers from Russia. "Alina Zagitova and Evgenia Medvedeva were on fire in the practice before the long program, triple combos with multiple jumps over and over again," Carol Lane reminisced. "Meanwhile Kaetlyn Osmond went quietly about her business, not doing much at all, but not getting distracted, and I thought, she's going to do it. She will get that bronze medal. And she did." Osmond would go on to defeat Zagitova, the Olympic gold medallist, a month later to become world champion in Milan, Italy. Also included in the first "Olympic Games Replay" is a rare English language interview with Japanese superstar Yuzuru Hanyu who won a second consecutive Olympic championship in Pyeongchang. Hanyu became the first male figure skater to repeat as Olympic gold medallist since American Dick Button had won in St. Moritz, Switzerland, in 1948 and Oslo in 1952. "Winning back-to-back Olympics, especially in singles, is an extraordinary feat but one that almost did not happen," said Kurt Browning referring to Hanyu capitalizing on an early failure by American teenager Nathan Chen. Chen was 17th after the short program but won the free skate by a wide margin, landing an astonishing six quadruple jumps to finish fifth overall. "His low point in the short program did not keep him from stealing all the attention in the long, something he has not stopped doing since," Browning said. Over the course of the interview, which was conducted in advance of the cancelled Montreal world championships, Hanyu speaks of his emotional and single-minded journey to become arguably the most celebrated and beloved men's figure skater of all time. "I never feel that I'm the champion but always the challenger," Hanyu admitted. "I'm always hunting the other skaters and challenging myself. The achievement of people's expectations gives me motivation and a meaning to my skating." Olympic Figure Skating 2018: Full Results and All Medal Winners from Pyeongchang. It was a brilliant fight to the finish for Russian skaters Alina Zagitova and Evgenia Medvedeva in the ladies' figure skating finals in Pyeongchang, and while the result was exhilarating for the 15-year-old Zagitova, it was likely quite painful for the 18-year-old Medvedeva. The battle went down to the wire as both women turned in brilliant performances in the free skate on the final night of skating at Gangneung Ice Arena. In the end, Zagitova edged Medvedeva by just over one point for the gold medal, 239.57-238.26. Zagitova's slim advantage over her rival was based on the difference in the short program Tuesday night because the two were even in the free skate, both scoring 156.65. The two rivals and countrywomen hugged emotionally after the final scores were announced, but it was clear that the older Medvedeva was clearly disappointed by coming in second. Medvedeva was attempting to come all the way back from a foot injury as well as the deficit she faced at the end of the short program, and while she came close, she was unable to close the gap on Zagitova. Canadian Kaetlyn Osmond was also brilliant, holding onto her third-place standing from the short program to earn the bronze medal. Jackie Wong @ rockerskating Olympic champion Alina Zagitova #PyeongChang2018 #Olympics #figureskating https://t.co/zuJs96jvhN. Ladies' Figure Skating Total score (Free skate score) 1. Alina Zagitova, OAR - 239.57 (156.65) 2. Evgenia Medvedeva, OAR - 238.26 (156.65) 3. Kaetlyn Osmond, CAN - 231.02 (152.15) 4. Satoko Miyahara, JPN - 222.38 (146.44) 5. Carolina Kostner, ITA - 212.44 (139.29) 6. Kaori Sakamoto, JPN - 209.71 (136.53) 7. Dabin Choi, KOR - 199.26 (131.49) 8. Maria Sotskova, OAR - 198.10 (134.24) 9. Bradie Tennell, USA - 192.35 (128.34) 10. Mirai Nagasu, USA - 186.54 (119.61) 11. Karen Chen, USA - 185.65 (119.75) 12. Elizabet Tursynbaeva, KAZ - 177.12 (118.30) 13. Hanul Kim, KOR - 175.71 (121.38) 14. Nicole Rajicova, SVK - 175.19 (114.60) 15. Gabrielle Daleman CAN - 172.56 (103.56) Bradie Tennell, Mirai Nagasu and K aren Chen had moments of inconsistency and brilliance in both the free skate and the short program, but the American skaters were not close to getting on the podium. Tennell finished ninth, Nagasu was 10th and Chen was 11th in the overall standings. The Americans may have been held out of the medal places in the ladies' event, but the United States finished third in the team event that combined ice dancing, pairs skating, men's skating and ladies' skating. The Canadians took gold in that event, which was the first medal handed out in skating at Pyeongchang, while the Olympic Athletes from Russia took the silver. The Canadians were led by ice dancers Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, who were virtually flawless in their performance. The pairs were the next event on the skating schedule, and this was one of the tightest events in the skating discipline. German pair and came through with a stellar closing program and took the gold medal. China's team of Sui Wenjing and earned the silver, while Canadians Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford finished a solid third and took the bronze medal. The Americans were hoping to find the podium in the men's single skating, but there was no beating Japanese skaters Yuzuru Hanyu and along with Spain's Javier Fernandez, who claimed bronze. Those three took the top spots, and Hanyu was a whirlwind who captured the gold by 10.95 points over his countryman. Nathan Chen and of the United States finished fifth and sixth, respectively, and fellow American Adam Rippon had a strong performance and finished 10th. The ice dance event was one of the most anticipated of the skating events because Virtue and Moir most likely were participating in their last Olympics. The husband-and-wife team were pushed very hard by France's Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron, but the Canadians were able to hold off the competition and win gold while the French couple took the silver. The American brother-and-sister team of Maia and Alex Shibutani may command the future of the sport. They finished 10th in the event in Sochi in 2014 and improved all the way to third in Pyeongchang. US Olympic Figure Skating 2018: Latest Results; Updated Schedule and Odds. There was disappointment for the United States in the figure skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics, as Alexa Scimeca Knierim and Chris Knierim could only finish 15th in the pairs on Thursday in South Korea. Germany's Aljona Savchenko and Bruno Massot raced away to a surprise gold in the event, recording a world-record score of 159.31 points for a total of 235.90 to beat acclaimed Chinese duo Sui Wenjing and Han Cong, who took the silver. There was joy for Canada's Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford, with the partnership securing the bronze medal at the Gangneung Ice Arena in Pyeongchang. U.S. fans will now be looking forward to the men's singles, with Nathan Chen set to appear in the short program on Thursday night (8 p.m. ET). The category begins in the early hours of the morning in the UK and Europe on Friday, with the skating set to commence at 10 a.m. local time. Here is the updated figure skating schedule and odds from Pyeongchang 2018: Figure Skating Schedule. Friday, Feb. 16 — Men's single skating, short program (8 p.m. ET Thursday/1 a.m. GMT) Saturday, Feb. 17 — Men's single skating, free skating (8 p.m. ET Friday/1 a.m. GMT) Monday, Feb. 19 — Ice dance, (8 p.m. ET Sunday/1 a.m. GMT) Tuesday, Feb. 20 — Ice dance, (8 p.m. ET Monday/1 a.m. GMT) Wednesday, Feb. 21 — Women's singles, short program (8 p.m. ET Tuesday/ 1 a.m. GMT) Friday, Feb. 23 — Women's singles, free skating (8 p.m. ET Thursday/ 1 a.m. GMT) Per Mark Gallant of Action Network, here are the odds for the men's singles competition, accurate as of Feb. 13 : Men's Singles Gold Medal Odds. Shoma Uno, Japan: Evens. Nathan Chen, United States: 7-4. Yuzuru Hanyu, Japan: 2-1. Javier Fernandez, Spain: 4-1. Latest Results. The pairs was always expected to be a tight-run affair, but the performance of Germany's gold medal duo caught many by surprise. Wenjing and Cong were expected to power through for the gold, but Savchenko and Massot produced a world-record free skating performance to leapfrog China's best. The Germans were initially outside of the medal places at the start of the day but rallied from fourth spot to capture the top honour. Russian ice skaters and Vladimir Morozov had been tipped to push for the gold, but the pair fell short as they slipped from second to fourth as the medals were decided. Savchenko was featuring at her fifth Olympic Games and finally took home a gold as her chemistry with Massot shone through. The female ice skater had previously won two bronze medals with former partner but can now call herself an Olympic champion. It was a tough day for America's Knierim partnership, with the married couple unable to push themselves into contention against a high-class field. Per Dave Skretta of Associated Press (via the Chicago Tribune ), the pair became the first Americans to land a a twist in Olympic Games competition, but it wasn't enough to see them leap up the standings. Chris Knierim had expressed his delight at skating with his wife at the Games: Chris Knierim @ ChrisKnierim This pictures says it all. @alexa_knierim as been through so much and deserves every moment on Olympic Ice. I could not have dreamed of a better Olympic moment. I hope she will be my valentine. ​♂❤#olympics #AKCK https://t.co/JWsjnpjSn4. Attention will now move to the men's singles, with a stellar lineup ready to entertain the fans in South Korea. American hopes are pinned on burgeoning superstar Chen, but his form has slightly dipped in his past few outings. Uno of Japan is evens to take the gold medal after Chen slipped from the position of favourite with the bookmakers.