2018 Winter Olympics

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MORE THAN 2,400 HOURS OF COVERAGE Coverage begins Feb. 7 at 11 p.m. ET on NBCSN Networks: NBC, NBCSN, CNBC, USA Network, NBCOlympics.com, and the NBC Sports app Opening Ceremony on Friday, Feb. 9 in primetime on NBC. NBC NBC's daily schedule is divided into three parts – daytime, primetime and primetime plus. Primetime begins each night at 8 p.m. ET, except for Sundays (7 p.m. ET) NBC's Olympic daytime coverage will air from 3-5 p.m. ET on weekdays, and 3-6 p.m. ET on weekends across all time zones. Live coverage: alpine skiing, figure skating, snowboard/freestyle skiing, and short track.

CNBC 46 hours of coverage, highlighted by evening curling telecasts. USA Network Coverage of: hockey and curling NBCOlympics.com/ NBC Sports app PyeongChang will be the first Winter Games to offer live streaming of the NBC broadcast network, including primetime and primetime-plus programming. Live streaming: All competition across desktops, mobile devices, tablets, connected TVs for authenticated users, and TV simul-stream coverage of five television networks. Viewers will also have access to three digital-only programs, live streams of practices, and a news desk regularly publishing Olympic updates throughout each day.

NBCSN Live primetime coverage of a Winter Olympics for the first time, as well as 10 days of 24-hour programming. Coverage of: bobsled, hockey, snowboarding, short track and luge.

Olympic Channel Coverage If your cable system gets the "Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA," the channel will air 20 hours of news and highlights provided daily by Olympic Broadcasting Services, live Olympic medal ceremony coverage and a daily studio show featuring Jimmy Roberts.

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››Sports | 2018 Winter Olympics The first Winter Olympics held in the United States was at Lake Placid in 1932.

The first Winter Olympics were held in Chamonix, France in 1924.

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Later called "The Forgotten Miracle," the U.S. Ice Hockey win over Canada for the Olympic Gold in 1960 was as incredible as the later game in 1980.

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The Winter Olympics were held in GarmischPartenkirchen, Germany in 1936. It was overseen by Chancellor Adolf Hitler. They were the last games to be held before the outbreak of World War II.

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At the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innbruck, Austria, Austrian Franz Klammer shocked the world by recording the fastest downhill skiing time in history. The crowd was so enthusiastic that he needed police protection.

The Jamaican bobsled team, competing for the first time at an Olympics games, stole the headlines at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Canada. The team crashed in the four-man event, but was cheered as they pushed the sled across the finish line.

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The U.S. team was nearly shut out of gold medals at the 1968 Olympics in Grenoble, France. Peggy Fleming saved the day, winning the figure skating gold. It was the first skating win since the tragic Sabena plane crash that killed the entire U.S. figure skating team in 1961.

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In 1980, the U.S. team defeated the vastly superior Soviet Union hockey team, en route to the Olympic gold. The game, which the U.S. won 4-3, was dubbed, "The Miracle On Ice."


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The biggest story of the 1994 games in Lillehammer was the conflict between American figure skaters Tonya Harding (right) and Nancy Kerrigan (left). A month before the games, Harding's ex-husband allegedly clubbed Kerrigan on the knee to keep her out of the games. Kerrigan returned and won the silver medal.

Shaun White led a historic showing for the U.S. team at the 2010 Winter Olympics. While White defended his gold in the Snowboarding Halfpipe competition, the team won an unprecedented 37 medals.

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At the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City, Jim Shea became a third generation Olympic champion when he won the gold in men's skeleton. His father competed in nordic and cross-country skiing events while his grandfather was Jack Shea, the famous Olympic speed skater.

At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano Austrian Hermann Maier suffered a horrific crash during his first Olympic run. It was so bad that many thought he might be paralyzed. To everyone's surprise, Maier returned to win 2 Olympic golds.

At the 2014 Sochi Winter Games, Sven Kramer dominated speedskating, winning 23 total medals (eight gold) in all events.

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