The Indian flag was raised at the Games Village in Pyeongchang on Thursday.
A day before the beginning of the Winter Olympics, the Indian flag was raised at the Games Village at a formal team welcome ceremony in Pyeongchang.
Luger Shiva Keshavan, Indian contingent's chef-de-mission Harjinder Singh and the mayor of the Games Village were present during the brief ceremony.
"The Indian contingent was formally welcomed at the Games Village today by the mayor of the Games Village. The tri- colour was raised during the welcome ceremony. We are proud to represent the country," Harjinder said.
"We have been looked after well by the organisers and we have no problems as such here except that it is very cold, below minus 20 degree celsius," he added.
Cross country skier Jagdish Singh is, however, yet to arrive at this resort town of South Korea and is expected to join the team on Friday.
Jagdish was to arrive here on February 4 along with Krshavan but his departure from India was delayed due to confusion over who will accompany him as coach.
Harjinder said that Keshavan, who is taking part in his sixth Winter Olympics, has started training for his event.
"Jagdish was not there during the team welcome ceremony.
He is arriving tomorrow. But Shiva has started his training drills," Harjinder, also the General Secretary of Ice Hockey Association of India, said.
The four heats of luge men's single s events in which Keshavan will participate will take place on February 10 and 11.
The final result will come out with the total time earned from the four runs.
Jagdish will compete in the 15-km Nordic skiing freestyle event on February 16.
The Winter Olympic Games kick off Friday with the Opening Ceremony.
Meanwhile, South Korea's Jang Hye-Ji launched 18 days of competition at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics today by sliding the first mixed doubles curling stone in Olympic history down the ice.
While the official opening ceremonies are not until Friday night, the first mixed doubles curling event in the Olympic Games began a day early to open 18 days of competition that will conclude with the February 25 closing ceremonies.
Jang took the opportunity to make Olympic history in her opening round-robin match alongside Lee Ki-Jeong against Finland's Oona Kauste and Tomi Rantamaeki before about 2,500 spectators at Gangneung Curling Centre.
Other opening round-robin matches sent Canada against Norway, China against reigning world champion Switzerland and the Olympic Athletes from Russia against the United States.
The Russians -- the 2016 world champion husband-and-wife team of Aleksandr Krushelnitckii and Anastasia Bryzgalova -- are competing under the Olympic flag after Russia was banned from the Games for major doping violations at the 2014 Sochi Games. The OAR duo launched their medal quest against US siblings Matt and Becca Hamilton, inspiring a solitary "Russ- i-a" yell from the crowd after scoring two points in the second end.
After seven round-robin matches through Sunday, the top four teams will reach Monday's semi-finals with medal matches set for Tuesday.
By the time the 23rd Olympic Winter Games get around to their opening ceremony on Friday, hundreds of athletes will already have been in action for a day and a half, starting Wednesday night with a new version of the ice chess otherwise known as curling. The games of to be played before the opening ceremony include eight games of mixed doubles curling, men's ski jumping, and figure skating.
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