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How To Watch The Olympics

By Tom Kelly
February, 7 2018
How to Watch the Olympics

U.S. Ski & Snowboard is heading to PyeongChang with one of its strongest teams ever. America's Olympic network NBC is planning 24-hour coverage across seven different platforms - the most Winter Olympic programming ever! For the first time ever, NBC will feature live streaming of every event at NBCOlympics.com and on the NBC Sports app. There will be more than 600 hours of broadcast coverage across the NBC network family including 160+ hours on NBC anchored by the nightly Primetime show with Mike Tirico. And for the first time ever, there will be no time delay across the United States for the evening Primetime show. Viewers will also be able to view past live streamed events on demand.

The U.S. Ski & Snowboard Team will also bring its fans supplemental coverage with U.S. Ski & Snowboard Studio featuring insightful interviews and behind the scenes action across each of the Team's social media channels.

U.S. Ski & Snowboard Studio
The U.S. Ski & Snowboard Studio is a perfect second screen to the extensive NBC coverage with an insightful look behind the scenes deployed on the Team's social channels.

NBC Where to Watch
NBC is rolling out 24-hour coverage on seven platforms covering every Olympic sport.

  • NBC - featuring NBC Primetime and Primetime Plus coverage live across all time zones with extensive ski and snowboard coverage
  • NBCSN - featuring live primetime coverage plus 24 hour coverage with a focus on ski and snowboard
  • Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA - feature program, live Medals Ceremony coverage and daily highlight show with Jimmy Roberts
  • NBCOlympics.com - featuring live streaming of every event in every sport
  • NBC Sports app - featuring live streaming of every event in every sport
  • CNBC (limited ski and snowboard coverage)
  • USA Network (limited ski and snowboard coverage)

Consult NBCOlympics.com for the most complete daily listings which are subject to change.

Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA
The Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA will provide 20 hours a day of Olympic coverage including live coverage of the daily medal ceremony (5:00 a.m. EST). Among the highlights will be a daily 30-minute studio show with Jimmy Roberts providing features, storytelling, commentary, and highlights, including a “Meet the Olympic Press” segment that will bring together contributing journalists to discuss all the daily news and storylines surrounding PyeongChang. Breaking news will be covered by the Olympic Channel News Service.

NBC BROADCAST-STREAMING PLAN
Note that daytime scheduled events in PyeongChang actually air the evening prior in the USA. That is noted in live streaming schedule. All schedules are subject to change. This schedule is designed as a highlight only. For full updated schedules go to www.nbcolympics.com.

NOTE: All times EST. Times and days reflect actual airing in Eastern Standard Time of the United States, which may differ from actual event day in Korea. There is a 14-hour time difference between EST and South Korea. For example, a 10 a.m. event on Saturday morning in South Korea, is 8 p.m. EST on Friday.

NBC Broadcast Listings

U.S. Ski & Snowboard Program Listings
 
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22

The final individual alpine skiing event features the women's alpine combined where both Lindsey Vonn and Mikaela Shiffrin could battle for gold. Women's big air snowboarding makes its debut with Jamie Anderson the favorite but chased by teammates Hailey Langland, Julia Marino and Jessika Jenson.

NBC
3:00-5:00 p.m. Nordic combined relay jump

NBCSN
2:00-5:20 a.m. - Men's parallel giant slalom qualifying
5:20 -7:45 a.m. - Nordic combined relay
7:45-10:45 a.m. - Medal Ceremony

Olympic Channel: Home Of Team USA
5:00-7:00 a.m. - Medal Ceremony (live)
12:00-12:30 p.m. - Winter Olympics Daily with Jimmy Roberts

NBCOlympics.com - Live Streaming
2:30-3:10 a.m. - Nordic combined team large hill jump
5:20-6:20 a.m. - Nordic combined 4x5k team event
 

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23

Team USA will be chasing medals in the men's debut of big air snowboarding with Red Gerard, Chris Corning and Kyle Mack going for gold.

NBC
8:00-11:00 p.m. - Alpine team event, big air snowboarding (live), men's parallel GS snowboarding.

NBCSN
12:30-4:00 p.m. - Medals Ceremony, men's 50k classic mass start (live)

Olympic Channel: Home Of Team USA
5:00-7:00 a.m. - Medal Ceremony (live)
12:30-1:00 p.m. - Winter Olympics Daily with Jimmy Roberts

NBCOlympics.com - Live Streaming
8:00-9:45 p.m. - Men's big air snowboarding (Saturday)
9:00-10:55 p.m. - Alpine team event (Saturday)
10:00-11:30 p.m. - Parallel giant slalom snowboarding (Saturday)
 

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24

Men's cross country closes out its Olympics with the 50k classic mass start.

NBC
3:00-6:00 p.m. - Men's 50k classic mass start

Olympic Channel: Home Of Team USA
5:00-7:00 a.m. - Medal Ceremony (live)

NBCOlympics.com - Live Streaming
11:00 p.m.-3:05 a.m. - Men's 50k classic mass start
 

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25

Action wraps up in PyeongChang with the women's 30k classic and the Closing Ceremony of the 2018 Games.

NBC
3:15-5:20 p.m. - Women's 30k classic mass start
7:00-8:00 p.m. - Olympic Gold recaps the PyeongChang Winter Games
8:00-10:30 p.m. - Closing Ceremony

NBCSN
2:00-4:00 a.m. - Women's 30k classic mass start

Live Streaming
1:15-3:20 a.m. - Women's 30k classic mass start
6:00-8:30 a.m. - Closing Ceremony

Coach of the Year Awards

Each year, U.S. Ski & Snowboard recognizes outstanding coaches in each discipline.  The annual Coach of the Year awards are divided into two categories in each sport.  

The International Coach of the Year awards are given to individuals in each sport who works primarily in the international competition arena including Olympic Winter Games, World Championships and World Cup.  

Mangan Added To 2018 U.S. Olympic Team

By U.S. Ski & Snowboard
February, 6 2018
Tricia Mangan
Tricia Mangan was named to Team USA on Tuesday. (Getty Images)

The United States Olympic Committee, in conjunction with U.S. Ski & Snowboard, today announced the addition of alpine skier Tricia Mangan (Buffalo, N.Y.) to the 2018 U.S. Olympic Team. 

She replaces the quota spot previously held by Jackie Wiles (Portland, Ore.), who was injured on Feb. 3 in competition at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

Mangan, 20, skied for Holimont Race Team in Western New York, was recently fourth in super-G at the FIS Junior World Ski Championships in Switzerland, and snagged her first points and a 19th-place finish in alpine combined at the FIS Ski World Cup in Lenzerheide, Switzerland, earlier this season.

Team USA now stands at 244. Updated rosters can be found at TeamUSA.org/2018Olympics.

 

Vonn Goes Back-To-Back For World Cup Victory 81

By U.S. Ski & Snowboard
February, 4 2018
Vonn Garmisch 2-4-18
Lindsey Vonn skied to her 81st-career FIS Ski World Cup victory in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. (Getty Images/Agence Zoom - Hans Bezard)

Lindsey Vonn (Vail, Colo.) is ready for the 2018 Olympic Winter Games after picking up her 81st-career FIS Ski World Cup victory – her second-straight downhill win and third of the season – Sunday in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

“I have so much confidence right now in my skiing, mentally, and my equipment,” Vonn said. “Everything is coming together better than I could have hoped or planned for.  And now I go into Korea with a couple of wins under my belt and I’m just really looking forward to skiing the same way, or even better than I skied this weekend – full charge! No holding back. I’m going to lay it all out on the table and see what happens.”

It was another good news, bad news day for the U.S. women as Breezy Johnson (Victor, Idaho) picked up her second-straight top-10 result in 8th; Laurenne Ross (Bend, Ore.) was 23rd; Alice McKennis (Glenwood Springs, Colo.) 29th and Alice Merryweather (Hingham, Mass.) in 31st. Stacey Cook (Mammoth Mountain, Calif.) was having a solid run until she hit a compression midway down the Kandahar track and slammed into the A-net at a high rate of speed. However, she did stand up briefly before being taken off the course in a sled as a precaution and is OK. In Saturday’s race, Jackie Wiles (Portland, Ore.) suffered a left leg injury resulting from a crash. She will miss the upcoming Games and the rest of the season. Ross also crashed in Saturday’s race.

In Sunday’s full-length downhill race, Vonn absolutely nailed the top portion of the Kandahar track, leading at the first two intervals over Liechtenstein’s Tina Weirather. But she fell off the pace in the middle portion of the course, only to come storming back on the bottom to move into the lead.

“Its kind of similar to Lake Louise where I know exactly what I have to do to win,” Vonn said of the Kandahar track. “The bottom section is always critical. Almost every race I’ve raced here, the race is won or lost in the last 30-45 seconds.

“So I carried all my speed really well,” Vonn continued. “I executed exactly the line that I’d hoped for and I was able to actually accelerate down to the finish.”

For the second consecutive day, Italy’s Sofia Goggia finished second to Vonn. Weirather was third. Goggia continues to lead the overall World Cup downhill standings by 23 points over Vonn with one downhill remaining next month at the World Cup Finals in Are, Sweden.

Mikaela Shiffrin (Eagle-Vail, Colo.) opted to sit out this weekend’s speed events to train and rest up for the Olympic Winter Games. Shiffrin continues to lead the overall World Cup standings by 671 points over Switzerland’s Wendy Holdener.

Up next, the 2018 Olympic Winer Games. The first event for the women will be giant slalom on Feb. 12, followed by slalom Feb. 14; super-G Feb. 17; downhill Feb. 21; and alpine combined on Feb. 23.

RESULTS
Women’s downhill

HOW TO WATCH
All times EST
Sunday, Feb. 4
4:00 p.m. – Women’s downhill; Garmisch – NBCSN (same day delay)

 

Downhiller Jackie Wiles Out of Olympics

By U.S. Ski & Snowboard
February, 4 2018
Jackie Wiles Stands Atop Podium in Cortina d'Ampezzo
Jackie Wiles (right) grabbed her career second downhill podium on January 20, 2018, in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, sharing the podium with teammate and mentor Lindsey Vonn. Wiles is the first-ever Lindsey Vonn Foundation Athlete Ambassador. (Christophe Pallot)

Jackie Wiles (Portland, Ore.) will be unable to compete at the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018, according to the United States Olympic Committee and U.S. Ski & Snowboard. Wiles suffered injuries to her left knee and leg Saturday (Feb. 3) in a crash during a FIS Ski World Cup in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, won by teammate Lindsey Vonn.

“I am completely devastated and heartbroken that I’m unable to compete in my second Olympic Games, but this is the nature of our sport and I must stay positive," said Wiles. "My teammates who have come back from injury give me hope that I too can come back stronger. Now I’ll shift my focus to rehabbing and getting strong for next World Cup season, and the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing. I will be rooting very hard for my teammates – who make up a strong women’s speed squad – and look forward to returning and joining them again next year!”

"We are all extremely disappointed that Jackie suffered this injury so close to the Games,” said Luke Bodensteiner, U.S. Ski & Snowboard Chief of Sport. “It’s a big loss to our alpine ski team, especially after her very strong results this season. We will do everything we can to support her in her rehabilitation and we’re already looking forward to seeing Jackie back in competitive action, stronger than ever, as soon as possible.”

Wiles is one of three U.S. athletes to score a podium finish in women’s downhill this season with her third-place finish in the event in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, and a fifth place in the downhill at Lake Louise, Alberta, to open the speed season.

The USOC and U.S. Ski & Snowboard have not yet determined if her spot will be replaced under the team quota.

Vonn Wins 80th Career World Cup

By U.S. Ski & Snowboard
February, 3 2018
Vonn Garmisch 2-3-18
Lindsey Vonn celebrates her 80th career FIS Ski World Cup victory in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. (Getty Images/Agence Zoom - Millo Moravski)

Lindsey Vonn’s (Vail, Colo.) Olympic Winter Games preparation is right on target following her 80th career FIS Ski World Cup victory on the Kandahar downhill track in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, Saturday.

Italy’s Sofia Goggia finished second, followed by Austria’s Cornelia Huetter in third. Breezy Johnson (Victor, Idaho) just missed the podium, posting a career-best World Cup finish in fourth.

Alice McKennis (Glenwood Springs, Colo.) was 17th; Stacey Cook (Mammoth Mountain, Calif.) was 22nd, and Alice Merryweather (Hingham, Mass.), who was just added to the U.S. Olympic Alpine Team Saturday, was 37th.  Jackie Wiles (Portland, Ore.) and Laurenne Ross (Bend, Ore.) both crashed. Ross did ski to the finish, however, Wiles was taken off the course in a sled and is being treated for a left leg injury. There is no confirmation yet on any impact to her Olympic Team status.

Saturday’s race was scheduled to be a two-run downhill sprint. However, weather canceled downhill training both Thursday and Friday, so the women ran a downhill training run prior to the race Saturday. Both the training run and race started from the super-G start.

Saturday’s victory was Vonn’s fourth World Cup downhill win on the Kandahar track and her eighth career World Cup victory in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

Up next, the women compete in another downhill Sunday in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, which is scheduled as a full-length downhill event.

RESULTS
Women’s Downhill

HOW TO WATCH
All times EST

Sunday, Feb. 4
6:30 a.m. – Women’s downhill; Garmisch – Olympic Channel TV (LIVE)
4:00 p.m. – Women’s downhill; Garmisch – NBCSN (same day delay)