Pyeongchang defeated rivals Munich and Annecy, France, in the first round of a secret ballot of the International Olympic Committee.

Needing 48 votes for victory, Pyeongchang received 63 of the 95 votes cast. Munich received 25 and Annecy seven.

The Koreans had lost narrowly in previous bids for the 2010 and 2014 Olympics.

Pyeongchang will be the first city in Asia outside Japan to host the Winter Games. Japan held the games in Sapporo in 1972 and Nagano in 1998.

Korean delegates erupted in cheers in the conference hall after IOC President Jacques Rogge opened a sealed envelope and read the words: "The International Olympic Committee has the honor of announcing that the 23rd Olympic Winter Games in 2018 are awarded to the city of Pyeongchang."

The vote totals weren't immediately released.

A majority was required for victory, meaning Pyeongchang received at least 48 votes among the eligible 95 voters.

It was the first time an Olympic bid race with more than two finalists was decided in the first round since 1995, when Salt Lake City defeated three others to win the 2002 Winter Games.

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The local organizing committee has signed a memorandum of understanding with Britain's anti-doping body and will implement the testing program under the authority of the International Olympic Committee.

London 2012 director of sport Debbie Jevans says the size of the testing program will give a "strong message that drug cheats are not welcome at the London Games."

UK Anti-Doping will train anti-doping officials and assist them during the event to carry out a 10 percent increase on the 4,500 tests conducted at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

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Now, the International Olympic Committee has reportedly written a letter to the Canadian National Olympic Committee "to find out a few more details," and the team has issued a public apology. What's the big deal, you might ask? For one, 18-year-old team member Marie-Philip Poulin was snapped holding a beer, and she's just under the legal drinking age in British Columbia. OK, so that's inappropriate, I guess -- only, in her home of Quebec, the drinking age is 18. Are people really that scandalized that someone just weeks away from her 19th birthday was caught imbibing in Vancouver after winning an Olympic gold medal?

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Fourth place. No medal. Usually a catalyst for tears at the Olympics. But to the 16-year-old American, it might be the foundation for some better finishes in the future.

The U.S. women failed to win a medal for just the second time since 1952 at Thursday night's competition. U.S. champion Rachael Flatt finished seventh.

"I'm just happy I was able to be right behind those top competitors because it's my first really big international competition," Nagasu said.

"Most 16-year-olds medal at their first Olympics," she joked. "I'm sorry that I wasn't able to keep up that U.S. trend. But, hopefully, I'll be able to make up for it when I get to come back I hope for the next Olympics."

Flatt was fifth and Nagasu was sixth coming into the finale. The top three skaters needed to make major mistakes for either one to make off with a medal. Nagasu finished more than 12 points out of a bronze.

The 17-year-old Flatt lost points on both her triple flips when she didn't complete the rotation. She said "they felt just fine to me" and acknowledged she was a bit surprised by her score.

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Belote, now 53, normally kept the medals in a safety-deposit box, but had put them underneath clothes in a dresser drawer at her Tempe home after taking them to an elementary school for a presentation.

Tempe police Sgt. Steve Carbajal said Thursday that one or more thieves broke into Belote's home sometime during the day Wednesday by prying open a back window. They stole the medals, an iPod, some cash, and jewelry, but left other things like computers and TVs.

Belote, who now coaches children and teens in swim, told The Associated Press on Thursday that when she found out her medals were taken, she "wept like a baby."

"I'm just sick about the whole thing," she said. "My medals are the culmination of a journey I started as a young girl with a dream to just get in the water and swim."

The medals also represent the sacrifices of everyone who helped her get to the Olympics, Belote said.

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"For sure" is nothing new, of course. It's been around since the 1580s, arriving after the expression "sure enough" and before "sure-footed," which, sadly, never really caught on. Today it is associated with groovy Californian optimism ("Fer shurr, dude!"), and tends to pepper the speech of Gen Y'ers, the demographic most represented at the Vancouver Games. But the frequency with which Olympic competitors, coaches and officials have been saying "for sure" lately suggests it is more than a meaningless verbal tic.

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And we loved it all! Here's a look at some of the contest's craziest looks.

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Hardly an elaborate celebration after an aggressive slalom run that helped land him that elusive Olympic gold medal Sunday during the super-combined. But to his father, Woody, the tiny show of emotion conveyed everything.

Like the weight of the world had been lifted.

"He looks happier, like he's enjoying himself," his father said. "That's what I like to see."

Taking in the scene from the middle of a packed crowd, Woody Miller was waiting for a display just like that, to inform the father that, yes, his son was indeed enjoying this moment.

Then again, what's not to enjoy?

Bode Miller now has three medals at these Winter Games and five for his career. The five Alpine medals tie him for the second-most by any man in Olympic history, behind the eight won by Kjetil Andre Aamodt of Norway.

And while Miller has long insisted that medals matter little to him, his father held a little different view of the situation. He thought his son was "hungry" for that elusive gold, almost burdened by it.

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No wonder.

When the guy standing next to him is skating, the medals ceremony usually has a different soundtrack.

Lysacek became the first U.S. man to win the Olympic gold medal since Brian Boitano in 1988, shocking everyone -- including himself -- by upsetting defending champion Evgeni Plushenko on Thursday night. Plushenko, retired the past three years, returned with the sole purpose of making a little history of his own with a second straight gold medal.

"I saw that American flag go up," Lysacek said, "and I couldn't believe it was for me."

Someone else was thinking the same thing.

The last to skate, Plushenko held up both index fingers when he finished, as if to say, "Was there ever any question?" As it turned out, yes.

And it wasn't really that close.

When Plushenko's scores were posted, someone in the arena screamed, "Evan Lysacek has won the gold!" Backstage, surrounded by longtime coach Frank Carroll and pairs gold medalists Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo, Lysacek threw back his head in disbelief and utter elation.

"I said to him, 'My compliments, you are the Olympic champion,'" Carroll said.

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Talking to NBC's "Today" show Friday morning, the American says he is ecstatic about the whole evening.

Lysacek became the first U.S. man to win the Olympic gold medal since Brian Boitano in 1988, upsetting defending champion Evgeni Plushenko.

Lysacek says he felt his program was strong enough that he didn't need a quadruple jump to beat Plushenko, who led after the short program and does the difficult leap.

He did say, though, that he had questioned the decision.

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There is something deeply satisfying about seeing a pregnant athlete at the Olympics. For one, it doesn't happen all that often: Only two pregnant Olympians (that we know of, at least) have come before Moore -- a German woman won fourth place in the skeleton in 2006 and a Swedish figure skater won gold some 90 years ago. More than that, though, she offers up an awesome embodiment of both nurturer and competitor, mother and warrior. I could start slinging the Women's Studies jargon about feminine archetypes and the medicalization of motherhood -- and yadda, yadda, yadda -- but it's really much simpler than all that. The dangers of doing, well, anything while pregnant are often greatly exaggerated, and Moore offers a healthy contrast.

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A story in yesterday's Washington Free Press revealed some depressing statistics from the book "Olympic Women and the Media: International Perspectives."  In it, researchers covering the 2004 Athens games found that female athletes were represented in just 25.2 percent of the international media coverage, compared with 40.2 percent for males. (The odds were even worse before the games, when men received 87.6 percent of the coverage, compared to women's measly 5 percent.)  And when female athletes did get written about, it was less likely to be for their gold-medal-earning physical prowess as it was for being, like Chinese diver Guo Jingjing,  "the beautiful goddess of the springboard.”

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Woburn District Court Clerk John Teevan says 45-year-old Mark Kerrigan faces arraignment Monday on a charge of assault and battery on a person over 60 that resulted in injuries. Teevan identified the victim of the assault as Daniel Kerrigan.

The Middlesex district attorney's office says police responded to the home of Daniel and Brenda Kerrigan around 1:30 a.m. Sunday over reports of an unresponsive man. The man was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead.

Brenda Kerrigan told the Boston Herald that her husband died of a heart attack and there was nothing suspicious about the death.

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