NBC To Broadcast Winter Sports From Europe, China This Week

Mother Nature is providing an off-week for the FIS Ski Alpine World Cup women, and World Cup Snowboardcross athletes, but the action continues from Italy, Switzerland, France, and China for many U.S. Ski & Snowboard athletes. The networks of NBC will provide more than 30 hours of winter sports broadcast and streaming coverage this week for fans to tune in.

The men’s World Cup circuit moves to Val Gardena and Alta Badia, Italy, for three events: super-G, downhill and giant slalom, Dec. 14-16. Tommy Ford (Bend, Ore.), who posted a career-best World Cup giant slalom result last week in Val d’Isere, will be one to watch on Sunday in Alta Badia, where he has posted a couple of top-15 results. Olympic champion Ted Ligety (Park City, Utah) is hoping to find that nostalgic form once again in Alta Badia where he has picked up numerous top-five results, including victories in 2012 and 2010.

Val d’Isere was slated to host the World Cup women’s speed event this week, however, unfavorable weather conditions have resulted in the event being rescheduled for Dec. 18-19 in Val Gardena, Italy. Downhill training is set for Monday, Dec. 17, and Tuesday morning, Dec. 18, with the downhill race scheduled for the afternoon of Dec. 18. The super-G will follow Wednesday, Dec. 19. The Networks of NBC will broadcast the rescheduled events the Olympic Channel and NBC Sports Gold app.

Following the speed events in Val Gardena, the women’s World Cup circuit moves on to Courchevel, France, for giant slalom and slalom events, Dec. 21-22. Mikaela Shiffrin (Avon, Colo.), fresh off her back-to-back super-G and parallel slalom victories in St. Moritz last weekend, plans to continue her training and not participate in the Val Gardena speed events in order to prepare for a busy upcoming holiday tech schedule that kicks off in Courchevel.

All eyes are on Jessie Diggins (Afton, Minn.) and Sadie Bjornsen (Mazama, Wash.) as the U.S. Cross Country Team heads to Davos, Switzerland, for the second FIS Cross Country World Cup freestyle sprint of the season Saturday, and women and men’s 10k/15k freestyle events Sunday. Diggins just missed the sprint podium the past two season in Davos, finishing fourth last year and fifth in 2016. She has been progressing through the start of the season despite battling a cold, posting an eighth-place 10k freestyle finish last weekend. Bjornsen is currently ninth in the overall World Cup standings thanks to six top-10 results this season, including a third-place freestyle sprint finish in Lillehammer, Norway, two weeks ago. Could we see two Americans on the podium in Davos Saturday? Tune in at 7:20 a.m. (EST) to The Olympic Channel and NBC Sports Gold app for live coverage Saturday.

Tess Johnson (Vail, Colo.), who finished third in the opening World Cup moguls event of the season last weekend in Ruka, Finland, leads a stacked U.S. Freestyle Team to Thaiwoo, China, for individual and dual moguls events. Both events will be broadcast live on the Olympic Channel and NBC Sports Gold, but due to the 13-hour time difference between China and the Eastern Time Zone in the United States, fans should plan on staying up late Friday and Saturday nights to catch the action beginning at 12:20 a.m. EST.

Kevin Bickner (Wauconda, Ill.), who was fifth in a FIS Continental Cup ski jumping event in Lillehammer, Norway last weekend, will head back to the World Cup tour this weekend at Engelberg, Switzerland. Nita Englund (Florence, Wis.) will compete at the women's World Cup in Pramanon, France.

Fresh off the Toyota U.S. Grand Prix, a number of U.S. Freeski and Snowboard Team athletes head to Breckenridge, Colo., for the Dew Tour this week, with halfpipe, slopestyle jib, and jump events.

This week’s FIS Snowboardcross World Cup in Montafon, Austria, was canceled due to weather. The U.S. Snowboardcross Team will kick off their World Cup season next week, Dec. 20-22 in Cervinia, Italy. With the cancellation, NBC will offer a re-broadcast of the Toyota U.S. Grand Prix snowboard halfpipe finals at 12:00 a.m. EST Wednesday.

The World Cup season opens for AJ Muss (Rumson, N.J.) as well as American Ryan Rosencranz at the FIS Snowboard World Cup parallel giant slalom and parallel slalom events in Carezza, Italy, Saturday and Sunday.

HOW TO WATCH
All times EST.
Preliminary schedule, subject to change
*Same-day delayed broadcast
**Replay broadcast

ALPINE
Friday, Dec. 14
5:45 a.m. - Men’s super-G - Val Gardena, ITA - OlympicChannel.com & NBC Sports Gold
6:00 a.m. - Men’s super-G - Val Gardena, ITA - Olympic Channel-TV

Saturday, Dec. 15
5:30 a.m. - Men’s downhill - Val Gardena, ITA - Olympic Channel-TV, OlympicChannel.com & NBC Sports Gold
8:00 p.m. - Men’s downhill - Val Gardena, ITA - NBCSN-TV*

Sunday, Dec. 16
3:45 a.m. - Giant slalom run 1 - Alta Badia, ITA - OlympicChannel.com & NBC Sports Gold
7:00 a.m. - Giant slalom run 2 - Alta Badia, ITA - Olympic Channel-TV, OlympicChannel.com & NBC Sports Gold
6:00 p.m. - Giant slalom run 2 - Alta Badia, ITA - NBCSN-TV*

Monday, Dec. 17
12:00 p.m. - Men's parallel giant slalom - Alta Badia, ITA - Olympic Channel-TV, OlympicChannel.com & NBC Sports Gold

CROSS COUNTRY
Saturday, Dec. 15
7:20 a.m. - Men and women’s sprint - Davos, SUI - OlympicChannel.com & NBC Sports Gold
7:30 a.m. - Men and women’s sprint - Davos, SUI - Olympic Channel-TV

Sunday, Dec. 16
3:15 a.m. Women’s 10k interval - Davos, SUI - OlympicChannel.com & NBC Sports Gold
9:00 a.m. Women’s 10k interval - Davos, SUI - Olympic Channel-TV*
5:45 a.m. - Men’s 15k interval - Davos, SUI - NBC Sports Gold / Replay available on OlympicChannel.com

FREESTYLE
Saturday, Dec. 15
12:20 a.m. - Men and women’s moguls, Thaiwoo, CHN - OlympicChannel.com & NBC Sports Gold
12:30 a.m. - Men and women’s moguls, Thaiwoo, CHN - Olympic Channel-TV

Sunday, Dec. 16
12:20 a.m. - Men and women’s dual moguls, Thaiwoo, CHN - OlympicChannel.com & NBC Sports Gold
12:30 a.m. - Men and women’s dual moguls, Thaiwoo, CHN - Olympic Channel-TV

SKI JUMPING
Friday, Dec. 14
11:50 a.m. - Men’s HS140 qualifying - Engelberg, SUI - OlympicChannel.com & NBC Sports Gold

Saturday, Dec. 15
4:50 a.m. - Women’s HS90 - Premanon, FRA - NBC Sports Gold
9:50 a.m. - Men’s HS140 - Engelberg, SUI - OlympicChannel.com & NBC Sports Gold
6:00 p.m. - Women’s HS90 - Premanon, FRA - Olympic Channel-TV*
7:30 p.m. - Men’s HS140 - Engelberg, SUI - Olympic Channel-TV*

Sunday, Dec. 16
4:50 a.m. - Women’s HS90 - Premanon, FRA - NBC Sports Gold
8:05 a.m. - Men’s HS140 - Engelberg, SUI - OlympicChannel.com & NBC Sports Gold
7:00 p.m. - Women’s HS90 - Premanon, FRA - Olympic Channel-TV*
8:30 p.m. - Men’s HS140 - Engelberg, SUI - Olympic Channel-TV*

SNOWBOARD
Wednesday, Dec. 12
12:00 a.m. - Men and women’s halfpipe - Copper Mountain, Colo. - NBCSN-TV**

Thursday, Dec. 13
6:20 a.m. - Parallel giant slalom - Carezza, ITA - OlympicChannel.com & NBC Sports Gold

Saturday, Dec. 15
10:50 a.m. - Parallel giant slalom - Cortina d’Ampezzo, ITA - OlympicChannel.com & NBC Sports Gold

Fans can catch all the action in spectacular high definition via NBC Sports online at NBCSports.com/Live or through the NBC Sports app which is available on the iTunes App Store, Google Play, Windows Store, Roku Channel Store, Apple TV, and Amazon Fire. Exclusive commercial-free coverage will be available for subscribers of the NBC Sports Gold Snow Pass, available here: https://www.nbcsports.com/gold/snow