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Terrible news today as it was confirmed that Laura Dahlmeier, one of the most decorated biathletes ever, has died while mountaineering in Pakistan: https://www.bbc.com/sport/articles/cdj237ly4g9o She won two gold, one bronze in 2018 plus 7 more World Championship golds and many other medals and already retired early at 25. She was a very proficient and enthusiastic climber, and only recently had set some speed record elsewhere in Pakistan. Very aware of the risks that come with extreme climbing, she left a will that stated that nobody should risk their lives to recover her body in case of an accident, like the one that now happened on Monday, and that she would rather "stay on the mountain" in that case. A tragic loss of a very modest and much loved German sports hero.

With almost only one year to go, I guess it's maybe time to make a proper thread for discussion about the ceremonies. However, it looks like there are some issues surounding the production of the ceremonies, according to this link http://news.sbs.co.kr/news/endPage.do?news_id=N1003757002 It seems that there were some internal conflicts between Song Seung Hwan, the ceremonies director, and Jeong Gu Ho, art director, which forced the later to resign (apparently there were a lot of creative differences between the two, so its now feared the ceremonies might suffer because of this issue). However, Song assures everything is set up and they're now on the process of picking an Agency which will be in charge of delivering the show. Also, the budget of the ceremonies, according to the link, is 100000000000 Won , which is around $85 million. A very big budget, far above Rio's and in comparison to London. Looks like they want to go all out, but they're now having internal creative conflicts rather than money issues.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/canada-olympic-house-2018-1.4477963