Pyeongchang Ticket Sales Are Sluggish So Far. Will the Rising Star of Kim Magnus Help?
Less than 10% of the tickets available for the cross country skiing events at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games are sold so far, the AFP news agency reports, quoting the Pyeongchang Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (POCOG) In the first round that opened on February 9th, exactly one year to go to the Games' opening, the tickets were sold only to the South Koreans, who were, clearly, much more interested in the sports where their country traditionally excels, such as speed skating and figure skating. The fact that the South Korea has one of the hottest up-and-coming stars of the cross-country skiing, an 18-year old Kim Magnus it its line-up, did not seem to affect the South Korean winter sport fans much so far. https://www.instagram.com/p/BQvDmQFB4lC Alpensia Cross-Country Centre has a capacity for 7500…
