Google Doodles mark the Paralympics 2018 with design celebrating the Pyeongchang Games
THE 2018 Winter Olympics had the nation enraptured, with Team GB coming home from Pyeongchang with a record-breaking five medals.
But the excitement isn't over yet, with the 2018 Paralympics set to bring yet more sporting drama – and Google is marking the start of the winter games with a celebratory Doodle.
How is Google marking the 2018 Paralympics?
Google is celebrating the opening day of the 2018 Paralympics with an animated design celebrating each of the sports the winter Paralympians will compete in.
In the multicoloured Doodle, we see Para-Athletes representing alpine skiing, biathlon, cross-country skiing, ice hockey, snowboarding and wheelchair curling.
They are all racing downhill together, striving for one of the 80 medals which will be awarded during the games.
The 2018 Paralympic Winter Games begins on Friday, March 9 with the opening ceremony and concludes with the closing ceremony on Sunday, March 18.
80 countries from around the world are competing in the games, and Team GB are sending 17 athletes – with a target of seven medals, one more than at Sochi 2014.
Channel 4 is broadcasting the games, with Clare Balding leading an all-star presenting line-up showing 100 hours of footage.
What is a Google Doodle?
In 1998, the search engine founders Larry and Sergey drew a stick figure behind the second 'o' of Google as a message to that they were out of office at the Burning Man festival and with that, Google Doodles were born.
The company decided that they should decorate the logo to mark cultural moments and it soon became clear that users really enjoyed the change to the Google homepage.
In that same year, a turkey was added to Thanksgiving and two pumpkins appeared as the 'o's for Halloween the following year.
Now, there is a full team of doodlers, illustrators, graphic designers, animators and classically trained artists who help create what you see on those days.
Among the Doodles published in recent months were ones commemorating German scientist Robert Koch, Jan Ingenhousz (who discovered photosynthesis) and the 50th anniversary of kids coding languages being introduced.
Earlier in the year, the search giant celebrated the 2017 Autumn Equinox , which marked the official ending of summer and the coming of autumn.