Here are the Calgary-area Olympians to cheer on at the Winter Games

Want to know who to cheer for now that the 2018 Winter Olympics have kicked offin South Korea? Here's a list of more than two dozen athletes on Team Canada who call the Calgary area home.

OK, we'll be honest: many of them might consider somewhere else their actual hometown, but live in the Calgary area to train since it's such a hub for winter sports.

The opening ceremoniesgot underway Friday morning in Pyeongchang. (South Korea is 16 hours ahead of Alberta.) Figure skaters Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir carried Canada's flag into the Olympic stadium.

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A total of 227 Canadian athletes are competing in the 102 events, hoping to better the 25 medals won at the 2014 Games in Sochi, Russia 10 gold, 10 silver and five bronze.

There are more than twodozen athletes from Calgary and the surrounding area on Team Canada,including:

Alpine skiing

• Trevor Philp
• Erik Read

Cross country skiing

• Russell Kennedy (Canmore)

Men's biathlon

• Christian Gow
• Scott Gow
• Nathan Smith
• Macx Davies (Canmore)

Women's biathlon

• Rosanna Crawford (Canmore)

Bobsleigh

• Lascelles Brown
• Kaillie Humphries
• Alysia Rissling
• Seyi Smith
• Justin Kripps (hometown Summerland, B.C.)

Men's curling

• Kevin Koe
• Ben Hebert (Chestermere)

Mixed doubles curling

John Morris (Canmore)

Men's skiing halfpipe

• Noah Bowman

Women's skiing halfpipe

• Rosalind Groenewoud

Men's hockey

• Mat Robinson
• Rob Klinkhammer (Lethbridge)
• Brandon Kozun
• Mason Raymond (Cochrane)

Men's luge

• Sam Edney
• Mitch Malyk

Women's luge

• Brooke Apshkrum
• Alex Gough
• Kim McRae

Doubles luge

• Justin Snith
• Tristan Walker (Cochrane)

Men's skeleton

• Barrett Martineau

Women's skeleton

• Elisabeth Vathje

Men's ski cross

• Brady Leman

Ski jumping

• Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes
• Taylor Henrich

Snowboard cross

• Chris Robanske

Women's speed skating

• Josie Morrison
• Kaylin Irvine

Men's speed skating

• Denny Morrison
• Ted-Jan Bloemen
• Gilmore Junio

Calgary athletes will also be competing for other countries at the Games:

Men's skeleton

• Joe Cecchini(Italy)

Alpine skiing

• Shannon-Ogbani Abeda(Eritrea)
• Jan Hudec (Czech Republic)

Women's speed skating

• Alexandra Ianculescu(Romania)

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