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Spectacular outside the arena, and inside it.

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Some pictures of the arena, courtesy of our reporter Ollie Williams.

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Kim Yo-jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, has arrived in South Korea.

She is the first immediate member of the North's ruling family to visit since the 1950-1953 Korean war.

She and Kim Yong-nam, North Korea's ceremonial head of state, are attending the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.

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BBC Sport in Pyeongchang

Someone clearly forgot to tell the organisers that the media are generally happy when they just provide coffee on cold occasions...

Now come the formal introductions of the South Korea president Moon Jae-in and the president of the International Olympic Committee Thomas Bach.

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The athletes will shortly be coming into the stadium and Great Britain will be the 52nd nation to enter as they are going in alphabetical order, well, the Korean alphabet order that is.

Greece, Ghana, Nigeria and South Africa will be the first countries to emerge at the opening ceremony. Olympic teams always enter after Greece, birthplace of the modern Games, and then in alphabetical order according to their names in the host nation's language, which has usually been Roman script.

The Korean alphabet, known as Hangeul, starts with a sound similar to a "g" in English, followed by a sound close to an "n". Invented by a Korean king, Sejong the Great, as an alternative to complicated Chinese characters, Hangeul is a 600-year-old writing system used in both North and South Korea.

So now you know.

We are now in a section of the ceremony called 'The Land of Peace', featuring a huge white tiger on the middle of the stage. Like a Korean version of War Horse. The white tiger is now joined by a Blue Dragon, a Vermillion Bird and a Black Tortoise.

A nice bit of theatre to get us going.

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Olympic gold medallist figure skater on BBC TV

We talk about the content of the opening ceremony, but this stadium has been built specially for these Games. It is formed of geometric shapes and the combination of these shapes represents harmony and convergence, which are key Korean values.

British snowboarder Aimee Fuller and freestyle skier Rowan Cheshire are in place and ready to go.

We are under way. We start off with a dramatic countdown, with all the lights dimmed. Then the stage appears to turn to ice and the lights and fireworks are starting. This is going to be colourful, spectacular and visually stunning.

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US Vice-President Mike Pence has skipped a dinner at which he was due to share a table with North Korea's ceremonial head of state Kim Yong-nam, reports say.

Mr Pence briefly encountered Kim Yong-nam but they tried to avoid directly facing each other, Yonhap reported.

They were being hosted by South Korean President Moon Jae-in before the opening of the Winter Olympics.

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Elise Christie's former team-mate Jon Eley told BBC that it was difficult to watch her troubles on the ice four years ago (see 10:55 GMT).

"It was tough to see that as a team-mate. She has had her ups and downs but she is now going to the Games as a world champion," he says.

"She has the love back for the sport and you can see it in her face. She is really excited about these Games and in a great place and I can't wait.

"She is going there looking to win. She is up against some great competitors and will be pushed all the way but she will push them too."

Frantic finishes, outrageous outfits and spectacular falls are just a few of the reasons to be excited about the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics.

Enjoy as we have put together a video of the crazy crashes, gold medals thrown away, some of the worst costumes ever worn by competitors and the luckiest gold medal ever.

Caroline Chapman
BBC Sport in Pyeongchang

My weather app at 1800 local time (0900 GMT) was said it was just above freezing, with the wind chill making it -4 C around the arena.

Although the stadium doesn’t have a roof (they ran out of time to build one) the organisers have treated chilly spectators to heated lamps over the food tables and even little saunas in the gangways for people to defrost.

And this is Elise Christie's very action-packed schedule as she aims to win gold in the 500m, 1000m and 1500m.

One of Britain's greatest hopes for a medal is short track speed skater Elise Christie, who recovered from a disastrous 2014 Games, where she was penalised in three events, to become triple world champion in 2017.

In one of those 2014 races, Christie crashed into South Korea's Park Seung-hi, which resulted in criticism from fans from that country.

"I had a crash at the Games, the Korean girl was taken out and I received a lot of death threats and online abuse which did come from South Korea," said the Scot. "But since then things have turned around and people have became fans and were sorry for how people had treated me.

"Short track in the UK is a minority sport, but in Korea it is one of the biggest sports and their short-track athletes are like celebrities."

You can watch the full documentary - Elise Christie: In From The Cold - on the iPlayer and via this link and see a clip from that programme below.

Here's an interesting warm-up act. The main proceedings haven't started at the opening ceremony, but to get the crowd warmed up we have martial artists performing.

I hope someone is going to clean the pieces of wood up before we get started.

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This will either make you feel really, really old or give you a taste of some memorable Winter Olympics moments for the first time.

Watch Great Britain at the Winter Olympics through the eyes of BBC Sport's millennial audience.

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Not all the British team will be in the stadium tonight.

Cross-country skier Andrew Musgrave will be watching along from the athletes' village, as he has posted on Twitter (BBC Sport app users may need to click on the link to see the tweet).

Want to know more about Musgrave and his sport?

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