As the opening ceremony officially launches the Games, the AFP team on the ground is mobilised to offer comprehensive real-time coverage of this major global sporting event.

After the opening ceremony, the AFP team now gets to the heart of the matter by covering the Winter Games' showpiece event, the men's downhill.

Photographers get ready and discover the ski slope looking for the best spots to take pictures.

As North Korea and South Korea marched together at the opening ceremony and competed as one with the first-ever joint Korean women's ice hockey team, AFP is mobilising 2 photographers, 1 videographer and 1 journalist to provide full media coverage of the North Korean delegation.

Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Olympic fencing champion in 1976, has very much made the news since the start of the Pyeongchang Games. This is also the case for the other Thomas Bach, a reporter for AFP’s sports department - one of them is the Story, while the other one tells it. And what was bound to happen did: the two men met. Our reporter tells us how it went.

It is one of those images that leaps out from the page: a young Venezuelan man engulfed in flames runs in panic through a fiery street, a gas mask obscuring his face. In the picture, which was nominated Wednesday for the prestigious World Press Photo of the Year award, it is the little details that stand out: A graffiti gun spray-painted on a wall fires the word "peace" from its barrel.

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As Shaun White wins his third halfpipe Olympic gold this Wednesday, reinforcing his position of snowboarding legend, AFP provides full coverage that is equal to jumps of such amplitude.

The 2018 edition of the World Press Photo has rewarded three AFP photojournalists, including Ronaldo Schemidt, one of six finalists for the World Press Photo of the Year.

For this edition, AFP provides its customers with interactive graphics that feature the history of medals for each country and each sport.