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April 24

Olympians and the NYSE

I know Michael Phelps, Tara Lipinski, Sarah Hughes, Evan Lysacek, the Fierce Five, Conor Dwyer and Maya DiRado rang the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange. Are there any other Olympians who did the same thing, as well? Please let me know. Thank you.2604:2000:7113:9D00:E489:B375:36EB:1AC5 (talk) 02:45, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

Chris Mazdzer. Shawn White. 2018 Men's Curling team. Michael Phelps, Nathalie Coughlin, Ryan Lochte.2008 Wrestlers. I'm tired of looking, you can find many more here. --Jayron32 12:36, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

How'd they choose between naming the Olympics after Daegwallyeong Township, Pyeongchang County, Gangneung "city-county" or Gangwon Province?

Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 03:39, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

I think that it's important to note here that how each country in the world handles its administrative divisions is often quite different than how others do, and especially when we're working across languages and cultures, what we call a "thing" in one language can be somewhat arbitrary for what we call it in another. As a civil division, the "county" may be the most important, culturally speaking, to the Koreans, so it seems natural to name their location by that name primarily, and not what we have translated as "city" or "town" or "municipality" or whatever. You find the same thing even in the anglosphere. Compare the political geography of New England to, say, other parts of the U.S. In New England, the unit known as the town is the primary civil division people identify with, however the equivalent, known as the township, in other parts of the U.S. may be a largely culturally meaningless unit, where people may more readily identify with a City or County. The answer, therefore, may very well be it was named for a "county" because, to the South Koreans, that unit of division has the most cultural significance. --Jayron32 15:59, 24 April 2018 (UTC)