The North Korean athletes who participated in the Winter Paralympics for the first time departed Pyeongchang on Thursday after concluding all of their events.Sit skiers Ma Yu Chol and Kim Jong Hyon were among the 24-member delegation who returned home before Sunday's closing ceremony for reasons which were not immediately clear.Both Ma, 27, and Kim, 17, competed in two cross-country skiing events, the men's 15-kilometer and the 1.1-km sprint, as wildcard entries. They came in second-from-last and last among the 27 skiers who finished the 15-km event, and were knocked out in qualifying for t…READ FULL ARTICLE
