The curtain falls on the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics.<br />Tons of dramatic moments have been captured... and numerous historic records were broken.<br />Let's turn to our Kim Mok-yeon for a recap. <br /> South Korea's second Olympics in thirty years has finally closed its curtains, ending its 17 day run. <br />A record 2,920 athletes from 92 countries participated in 102 events across 15 different sports.<br /><br /> The host country had 146 athletes competing, three times more than it had at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. <br />North Korea also re-entered the Olympic stage for the first time in 8 years, with 22 athletes competing in five events.<br /><br /> In terms of the medal tally..,<br />A total of 102 gold medals were up for grabs this year-- the first time over 100 gold medals have been handed out at a Winter Olympics. <br />And over 30 different nations took home at least one medal.<br /> Norway won a whopping 39 medals at PyeongChang 2018, beating the U.S.A's record of 37 in 2010, to become the country that earned the highest number of medals in a single Winter Olympics.<br />South Korea also clinched the most medals in its Winter Olympic history, with a total of 17 medals -- five gold, 8 silver and 4 bronze. <br /><br />And dozens of new records were set.<br /> Three world records and 25 Olympic records were broken in the ice sports events.<br />6 new Olympic records were made in speed skating and 15 more in short track speed skating including the three world records.<br />Wu Dajing won China's first gold medal in the men's 500 meters, finishing with a world record of 39.584 seconds.<br />The Netherlands women's 3000 meters short track relay team also set a world record time of 4 minutes, 3.471 seconds.<br />South Korean athletes broke Olympic records in five short track events, with Olympic champion Choi Min-jeong breaking the record twice in the women's 500 meter event. <br /><br /> There were also many significant 'firsts' in the winter games.<br />South Korea's iron-man Yun Sung-bin took the host nation's first gold in not only skeleton but in any Olympic sledding event,... finishing 1.63 seconds ahead of the silver medalist <br />from Russia.<br />And the famous women's curling team also clinched South Korea's first medal for the event, in only the country's second Olympic curling appearance.<br /> And finally, South Korean alpine snowboarder Lee Sang-ho became the first Asian to win an Olympic medal in a men's alpine snowboarding event.<br /><br />Kim Mok-yeon, Arirang News. <br />
