The XXIII Winter Olympic Opening Ceremony kicked off in Pyeongchang, South Korea in the wee hours of Friday morning, with 2,952 athletes from 92 countries set to compete in this year's Winter Games. Capturing their accomplishments will be an international video production army working to broadcast that coverage to the world. Let's face it: where would the Olympics be without us?
According to KVOA, the NBC operation for the 2018 Winter Olympics, which will air live across all time zones for the very first time, consists of 1800 American employees and over 100 shipping containers of equipment. That's a lot of coaxial cable! To get you excited for this year's coverage of those frosty winter games being captured by our comrades-with-cameras, here are some behind-the-scenes (BTS) videos.