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IOC Adds Four New Events To PyeongChang Games Program

The IOC today agreed to add "four new events" to the '18 PyeongChang Games program: curling mixed doubles, speed skating mass start, big air snowboarding and a team event in downhill skiing. Big air snowboarding "will replace the snowboard parallel slalom" in a move agreed to by the FIS. The IOC in a statement said the new events will lead to a "projected increase in the overall female participation at the Olympic Winter games" (REUTERS, 6/8).

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