Pyeongchang was supposed to be about the joy and excitement of the Olympic Games for Japanese biathlete Mikito Tachizaki.
The 29-year-old was poised to share his experience over laughs with his wife Fuyuko, a fellow Self-Defense Forces member and biathlete, competing in her third Olympics in Pyeongchang.
Those hopes, however, fell apart spectacularly on Sunday. Mikito finished 84th in a field of 87 in the men's 10-km sprint. His time of 27 minutes, 27.1 seconds was almost four minutes worse than that of the winner, Germany's Arnd Peiffer.