If you can’t get a plane ticket to South Korea then grab your tv remote, and get excited to watch the world’s best athletes compete in February 2018 Winter Olympics.

The games will take place from February 9-25, in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Construction on Olympic infrastructure is well under way and going well compared to issues regarding accusations of corruption and overspending problems and delays that previous host cities have faced.

Thirteen venues will be used for events and six of them are brand new. Citizens are getting excited as well; a hundred day countdown clock was installed and this year’s Olympic mascot, the white tiger, can be seen everywhere around the city.

The tiger, named Soohorang, plays an important role in Korean culture, symbolizing strength and protection and its “job” is to offer these qualities to all athletes.

This is the second time South Korea has hosted the Olympic Games since hosting the Summer Olympics in Seoul in 1998.

95 nations will compete this winter. New nations include Uganda’s first snowboarder, Nigeria’s first women’s bobsled team, and Afghanistan’s first alpine ski team.

Although they have participated in five consecutive winter games, The NHL is officially not participating this winter, claiming that is disrupts the NHL season. Despite accusations of a doping scandal last year, it appears Russia will be cleared to compete.

New events this winter include snowboarding big air, mass start speed skating, curling mixed doubles and the alpine skiing nations team event.