How to follow the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games

Sports lovers are in luck. This year, finally, a new edition of the Olympic Winter Games is being held, which this year will take place in the city of Pyeongchang, located in South Korea . They will take place very soon: from February 9 to 25, all fans will be able to be glued to their television screens to follow the exploits of elite athletes from around the world. And when they are not glued to the screen of your television they can be, of course, to your mobile phone.

As there is almost nothing left for the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics to start, from tuexpertoapps we have decided to make a special in which we are going to tell you how to follow this sporting event from your mobile. There are 5 highly valued applications, with some recent news, with which we can keep up to date with everything that happens in the world sports epicenter during these 16 days .

Samsung PyeongChang 2018

A very recent application, developed by Samsung, a brand from South Korea. When entering its corresponding page in the Android application store, you may think that you will not be able to understand anything about it, since everything appears in Korean. But fear not, because the only thing you'll need to have is a smattering of English, as we'll have up to 4 languages ​​available, including French.

Once you have downloaded and installed the Samsung application, which will tell you everything about the Winter Olympic Games, you must choose the default language and set the time slot in which you are going to use the application. It will automatically detect your time, so you just have to click on it and that's it. The app will then show you how long until the games start, plus a handy news feed. If we slide the screen to the right, we will see a complete menu to access the calendar of events, stadiums and pavilions, classified sports, etc.

This application is the official application of the Winter Olympic Games and, as such, it is very complete. Its installation file is close to 40 MB in weight, so you will have to assess whether you want to download it using mobile data or via WiFi.

Pyeongchang Gold

Despite not being an official application of the Winter Olympic Games, Pyengchang Gold is quite effective and simple. An application to follow the games without having more boasts than having a simple calendar with the sports properly classified On the main screen we have the list of sports in order alphabetical and, if we enter each one of them, we will see its calendar of events. By clicking on one of the events, we will be able to see it in greater detail: countries that face each other, competition schedule, etc.

On the side we have a brief menu, consisting of 'events', 'calendar' and 'medal table' In the 'medal table ' we will be able to see previous editions of the winter olympic games, being the last venue of 2o14 in the city of Sochi, Russia.The country that won the most medals in that edition of the Winter Olympic Games was Norway, with 11 gold, 5 silver and 10 bronze medals.

This free application is under development, so it may give certain errors. During our tests, it has worked perfectly for us and we have found it quite simple and practical. Its installation file has a weight of less than 14 MB, so you can download it with your mobile data without suffering too much wear and tear.

The Olympics – Official App

An application developed by the IOC (International Olympic Committee) itself and that deals with the world of the Olympics, both winter and summer. It is quite similar in design to the one we reviewed in the first place, developed by Samsung, unlike the fact that in this application we will be able to dive through previous editions of the games. In the side menu we have everything we need to become experts in the Olympic Games: divided into two sections, winter and summer games, the application allows us to It tells the story and details of all the editions, as well as a file on the most important athletes such as Michael Phelps or Larisa Latynina.

The Olympics is a really enjoyable application for all sports lovers, very pleasant to read and with a very simple and intuitive interface. In addition, it is totally free and does not contain ads, its installation file being less than 10 MB, so you can download it whenever you feel like it.

Brand

Although it has its sights more on the king of sports, we could not ignore the official application of the newspaper with the most widely read national circulation in all of Spain according to the General Study of Media. The official application of the Marca newspaper is practical, simple and very easy to use. Let's see a little in detail what we can find in it.

As soon as we open the application, we find a main screen of current news. At the top of it we can switch between different tabs: results, score, my team and last minute In 'my team' we can choose the preferred soccer team and leave it as default so as not to lose any news about it. On the left side we have the corresponding three-line hamburger menu. In it we can see:

• A complete TV schedule with all the sporting events that will be broadcast from the small screen
• Transfer market
• Sports sections: an extensive list of sports and their corresponding news
• Notification settings
• Favorite news

Brand is a free application that has a weight of about 11 MB.