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Viewing guide to the XXXIII Olympic Winter Games February 8-25, 2018 - PyeongChang, South Korea

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Televised events......3-15 Alpine skiing..............3 Speedskating..............4 Short track.................5

Ski jumping ...............5 Curling......................6 Bobsledding...............7 Figure skating...........8-9

Men’s ice hockey........10 Women’s ice hockey....11 Halfpipe...................12 Skeleton..................13

Luge.......................13 Biathlon...................14 Nordic combined........14 Cross Country............15

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The 2018 Olympic Winter Games medals are inspired by Korean culture and traditions, and their design resembles the texture of tree trunks, as the tree symbolises the work that has gone into developing Korean culture.

Crafted by designer Lee Sukwoo, the medals incorporate “Hangeul” – the Korean alphabet and the foundation of Korean culture – into their design through a series of three-dimensional consonants.

These consonants stretch across the face of the medals to the edge, where they spell “Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018.”

Viewing guide to the XXXIII Olympic Winter Games February 8-25, 2018 - PyeongChang, South Korea

Shiffrin set up as Olympic downhill star; Daily TV Schedule Vonn, Hirscher could play spoiler role (AP) — If Mikaela Shiffrin continues to race as well as she has been, she is setting herself up to be the biggest star of the Pyeongchang Olympics. Not just of Alpine skiing, but the entire Winter Games.

To put it simply: She is about as close to unbeatable as can be right now.

Shiffrin, a 22-year-old American, won the first five women’s World Cup races she entered in 2018, and seven of her past eight on the circuit, competing against the best the world has to offer and outclassing them time and again.

And Shiffrin is not merely winning — she is overwhelming opponents, sometimes collecting victories by more than 1.5 seconds, a large margin in a sport often decided by hundredths.

Born in Colorado and raised in New Hampshire and Vermont, Shiffrin was 18 at the 2014 Sochi Games when she became the youngest Olympic slalom champion in history. Her 41st career World Cup race win, which came in January, equaled the highest total for a ski racer under 23.

Now she heads to Pyeongchang as an overwhelming favorite to be the first to win consecutive slalom golds.

What’s more, she will be a contender to win the giant slalom and combined, too , for a chance to match the Alpine record of three titles at one Olympics.

It’s possible that she could enter the super-G and downhill, too, which would make her something never seen these days: a five-event threat.

“When I go to South Korea, I’m not going to be thinking about what I did in Sochi or what I did even previously in this season,” Shiffrin said. “Hopefully, I’ll just be thinking about the task at hand.”

Here are some other things to watch on the mountains in February: VONN’S RETURN AND FAREWELL Shiffrin’s U.S. teammate Lindsey Vonn was supposed to be the one to watch at the Sochi Olympics but never got the chance to defend her downhill gold medal from Vancouver in 2010 because of a knee injury. Back on the sport’s biggest stage for the last time at age 33, Vonn can add to her legacy as one of the all-time greatest ski racers (she owns a women’s record 78 World Cup wins) by earning one more medal in a speed event, downhill or super-G. ELUSIVE GOLD Marcel Hirscher is as dominant among the men as Shiffrin is among the women. The Austrian has won an unprecedented six consecutive overall World Cup ti tles and appears on his way to No. 7. As of mid-January, he put

Events and ceremonies will be broadcast on NBC, NBC Sports Network (NBCSN), USA, CNBC and the Olympic Channel. Broadcast times are Eastern Daylight unless noted.

Lindsey Vonn is among a group of American medal hopefuls in the Alpine skiing events. together a five-slalom winning streak. “He is just better.

That’s the way it is,” said Henrik Kristoffersen, a Norwegian who perpetually ends up in second place, behind Hirscher.

But for everything he’s done, Hirscher has yet to win an Olympic gold medal, despite four top-five finishes in slalom or giant slalom at Sochi and Vancouver.

REMEMBER THESE NAMES Some folks to keep an eye on who could spring a surprise include Petra Vlhova of Slovakia, the last person to beat Shiffrin in a slalom race before the American’s lengthy winning streak; Sofia Goggia of Italy, who will be making her Olympic debut but won two World Cup races on the mountain in South Korea in March 2017; Michael Matt of Austria, whose older brother Mario defeated Hirscher for the gold in slalom four years ago; Andrew Weibrecht of the U.S. (nickname: War Horse), who came out of nowhere to pick up medals in 2010 and 2014 and maybe — just maybe — could do it again.

BYE, BODE After a U.S.-record six Alpine medals across five Winter Games appearances, Bode Miller will not be on the slopes in Pyeongchang. Other familiar faces who’ll be absent: Tina Maze, a Slovenian who won two golds four years ago; Maria Hoefl-Riesch, a German medal who collected three golds and one silver at the past two Olympics; and Ivica Kostelic, a Croatian with four Olympic silvers.

THURSDAY, FEB. 8 NBC 8-11:30 p.m. — Figure Skating: Team Event (LIVE), Men’s Short Program, Pairs’ Short Program; Freestyle Skiing: Men’s & Women’s Moguls NBCSN 2-6 a.m. — Mixed Doubles Curling: Canada vs. Norway, China vs. Switzerland 6-10 a.m. — Mixed Doubles Curling: United States vs. Canada (LIVE), China vs. South Korea; Ski Jumping: Men’s Individual Normal Hill 8-11:35 p.m. — Mixed Doubles Curling: United States vs.

Switzerland; Alpine Skiing: Men’s Downhill Training (LIVE); Luge: Men’s Training 11:35 p.m.-1:30 a.m. — Mixed Doubles Curling: United States vs. South Korea (LIVE) FRIDAY, FEB. 9 NBC 8-11 p.m. — Opening Ceremony SATURDAY, FEB. 10 NBC 3-6 p.m. — Snowboarding: Men’s Slopestyle; Short Track Speedskating: Men’s 1500m Gold Medal Final; Ski Jumping: Men’s Individual Normal Hill Gold Medal Final; Luge: Men’s Singles 8-11 p.m. — Figure Skating: Team Event (LIVE), Ice Dancing Short Dance, Ladies’ Short Program; Alpine Skiing: Men’s Downhill Gold Medal Final 6-9:30 p.m. (MST) — Figure Skating: Team Event (LIVE), Ice Dancing Short Dance, Ladies’ Short Program; Alpine Skiing: Men’s Downhill Gold Medal Final 5-8:30 p.m. (PST) — Figure Skating: Team Event (LIVE), Ice Dancing Short Dance, Ladies’ Short Program; Alpine Skiing: Men’s Downhill Gold Medal Final 11:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m. — Figure Skating: Team Event (LIVE), Pairs’ Free Skate NBCSN 2-5 a.m. — Cross Country: Women’s Skiathlon Gold Medal Final (LIVE); Mixed Doubles Curling: United States vs. China 5-7:35 a.m. — Short Track Speedskating: Men’s 1500m Gold Medal Final (LIVE) 7:35-11:30 a.m. — Ski Jumping: Men’s Individual Normal Hill Gold Medal Final (LIVE); Snowboarding: Men’s Slopestyle

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Viewing guide to the XXXIII Olympic Winter Games February 8-25, 2018 - PyeongChang, South Korea

Daily TV Schedule New mass start event spices up speedskating

Events and ceremonies will be broadcast on NBC, NBC Sports Network (NBCSN), USA, CNBC and the Olympic Channel. All broadcast times are Eastern Daylight.

11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. — Luge: Men’s Singles 1-5 p.m. — Speedskating: Women’s 3000m Gold Medal Final; Biathlon: Women’s 7.5km Sprint Gold Medal Final; Mixed Doubles Curling: United States vs. Norway 7-9:45 p.m. — Snowboarding: Men’s Slopestyle Gold Medal Final (LIVE) 9:45 p.m.-1:30 a.m. — Mixed Doubles Curling: United States vs. Finland; Snowboarding: Women’s Slopestyle (LIVE) 1:30-2:40 a.m. — Mixed Doubles Curling: Canada vs. South Korea USA 7-9:30 a.m. — Women’s Ice Hockey: Switzerland vs. South Korea (LIVE) OLYMPIC CHANNEL 5-7 a.m. — Medal Ceremonies (LIVE) SUNDAY, FEB. 11 NBC 3-6 p.m. — Speedskating: Men’s 5000m Gold Medal Final; Biathlon: Men’s 10km Sprint Gold Medal Final; Cross Country: Men’s Skiathlon Gold Medal Final 7-11 p.m. — Figure Skating: Team Event Gold Medal Final (LIVE), Men’s Free Skate, Ladies’ Free Skate, Ice Dancing Free Dance; Alpine Skiing: Women’s Giant Slalom (LIVE); Freestyle Skiing: Women’s Moguls Gold Medal Final; Snowboard: Women’s Slopestyle Gold Medal Final; Luge: Men’s Singles Gold Medal Final Runs 11:35 p.m.-1 a.m. — Alpine Skiing: Women’s Giant Slalom Gold Medal Final (LIVE); Snowboarding: Women’s Halfpipe (LIVE) NBCSN 2:40-5 a.m. — Women’s Ice Hockey: United States vs. Finland (LIVE) 5-9 a.m. — Biathlon: Men’s 10km Sprint Gold Medal Final (LIVE); Speedskating: Men’s 5000m Gold Medal Final; Cross Country: Men’s Skiathlon Gold Medal Final 1:30-5:30 p.m. — Curling: Mixed Doubles Tiebreaker; Luge: Men’s Singles Gold Medal Final Runs 5:30-8 p.m. — Biathlon: Men’s 10km Sprint Gold Medal Final 8-11:30 p.m. — Snowboarding: Women’s Slopestyle Gold Medal Final (LIVE); Curling: Mixed Doubles Semifinal 11:30 p.m.-2:40 a.m. — Curling: Semifinal Mixed Doubles (replay); Speedskating: Men’s 5000m Gold Medal Final

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(AP) — The big oval is going to get a lot more crowded at the Pyeongchang Games.

Speedskating is spicing itself up with the Olympic debut of the mass start, featuring up to 24 skaters racing 16 laps at the same time. That’s quite a change from the traditional time trial format in which pairs race against the clock.

The sport’s big names — from Shani Davis to Claudia Pechstein to Sven Kramer and Ireen Wust — will toe the starting line in pursuit of more gold to add to their glittering collections.

Speedskating begins Feb. 10 with the women’s 3,000 meters at the Gangneung Oval, which seats 8,000 and is located in the cluster of venues along the coast.

Here are some things to watch on the big oval: DON’T MISS The mass start brings a bit of short track sass to long track. There are four intermediate sprints throughout the mass start. The top three skaters in those sprints earn points, as do the top three crossing the finish line. The medalists are determined by the top three finishers, while the rest of the standings are decided based on the sprint points. During the race, lasting between 7 1/2 and 8 minutes for the men and women, respectively, there will be breakaways, skaters jockeying for position and all-out sprints. There may be tactics, too, with countries deciding to work together in an effort to get on the podium. The U.S. is a medal contender in the men’s and women’s races. Joey Mantia won the world title last season, while Heather Bergsma finished third at worlds. The event closes the competition on Feb. 24.

I, CLAUDIA At age 45, Pechstein could be a mother to her fellow speedskaters. The German will become the first woman to compete in seven Winter Olympics. She has a chance to become the oldest Winter Olympic medalist in an individual event and the first person to win the same individual Winter Olympic event four times (she won the 5,000 meters in 1994, 1998 and 2002). Pechstein won a 5,000 World Cup race last fall. The owner of nine Olympic medals, she missed the 2010 Games because of a two-year blood doping ban. She denied having irregular biological passport levels and fought the ban in the court system for several years. Besides the 5,000, Pechstein is a contender in the mass start. She turns 46 during the games.

ORANGE IS THE OLD GOLD Defending Olympic champions Kramer and Wust lead a strong Dutch team again. Kramer will be going for his third 5,000 title in a row, while seeking to add a 10,000 title and help the pursuit team to a second straight gold.

Wust has her sights set on three more golds in the 1,500,

Erin Jackson competes in the women’s 500 meters during the U.S. Olympic long track speedskating trials in Milwaukee.

3,000 and team pursuit. The Netherlands dominated the dozen speedskating events in Sochi four years ago, winning eight golds and 23 medals overall. However, with rules limiting entries per nation to two instead of three skaters for some races, the Dutch may cede some spots on the podium.

AMERICAN REDEMPTION The U.S. is intent on bouncing back from an embarrassing showing in Sochi, where the nation’s most successful Winter Olympic sport was shut out. Bergsma and Brittany Bowe have dominated the 1,000 and 1,500 distances internationally while trading spots atop World Cup podiums. On the men’s side, Davis is back for a fifth Olympics at age 35. The two-time gold medalist in the 1,000 isn’t as dominant, but he hasn’t lost his passion for the sport. Mitch Whitmore and Mantia are medal threats in the 500 and 1,000, while Mantia will be a favorite in the mass start.

Watch for Erin Jackson, a former inliner who is the first black female skater to make a U.S. long track team.

BAND & BEER The Winter Olympics herald the return of speedskating’s pep band, Kleintje Pils, which translates as “little beer” in Dutch. The group makes merry before and after competition at the oval. Playing their horns and dressed in orange, they create a party atmosphere unique to the games.

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Viewing guide to the XXXIII Olympic Winter Games February 8-25, 2018 - PyeongChang, South Korea

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Speedskating’s short track will be jumping (AP) — If you like your Olympic competition staid and sportsmanlike, the short track speedskating rink isn’t the place.

The skaters’ helmets and pads are a dead giveaway elbows will be flying at high speeds.

Darting down low or around the pack to secure a better position can cause crashes that earned the sport its reputation as roller derby on ice. Throw in the fact that South Korea is a hotbed for short track and it makes sense that Gangneung Ice Arena will seat 12,000 spectators for the rock ‘em, sock ‘em action.

How prickly and passionate is the host country about the sport that has been its best? Apolo Ohno, the most decorated U.S. Winter Olympian, was once public enemy No. 1 there.

At the 2002 Salt Lake City Games, South Koreans believed Ohno stole the gold from Kim Dong-sung, who finished first in the 1,500 meters but was disqualified for blocking. Ohno threw up his arms as he tried to pass Kim, as though to cry foul. When Ohno claimed his gold, thousands of angry emails shut down the U.S. Olympic Committee server for hours.

The animosity toward Ohno grew so heated that the entire American short-track team withdrew from a World Cup event held in South Korea in 2003, citing death threats against Ohno. In 2005, he traveled in South Korea, reportedly under police guard.

Ohno will be at the rink in Gangneung doing commentary for NBC, the U.S. network carrying the games.

The five days of short track begin Feb. 10 with the men’s 1,500 meters.

Some things to watch in short track: VIKTOR THE GREAT Viktor Ahn returns to skate in his birth country after competing as a Russian in the 2016 Sochi Olympics. His nationality has taken twists and turns. He won his first four Olympic medals for South Korea in the 2006 Turin Games when he was known as Ahn-Hyun Soo. After a dispute with South Korea’s short track powers, Ahn switched his nationality to Russia and won three golds in Sochi. He was 0.077 seconds from sweeping all four golds. The 32-year-old skater needs one more medal to become the most decorated short track skater. He and retired American Apolo Ohno are currently tied with eight.

Ahn’s passport switch will become a story line again in South Korea, and how the crowd reacts to him will be interesting to watch.

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Events and ceremonies will be broadcast on NBC, NBC Sports Network (NBCSN), USA, CNBC and the Olympic Channel. Broadcast times are Eastern Daylight unless noted.

USA 7-9:30 a.m. — Women’s Ice Hockey: Canada vs. Olympic Athletes from Russia (LIVE) OLYMPIC CHANNEL 5-7 a.m. — Medal Ceremonies (LIVE)

Poland’s Kamil Stoch soars through the air during the trial jump at the third stage of the Four Hills ski jumping tournament in Innsbruck, Austria.

Ski jump champ Stoch primed for podium at PyeongChang (AP) — Double Olympic champion Kamil Stoch is in peak form as he aims to defend his ski jumping titles at the Pyeongchang Games.

When Stoch won double gold in Sochi, he became just the third man to do so. Matti Nykanen of Finland won both golds in 1988. Switzerland’s Simon Ammann won two golds in 2002 and 2010.

Here’s some of what to know going into ski jumping at the Pyeongchang Games: MEDAL FAVORITES Slovenia’s Peter Prevc won silver on the normal hill and bronze on the large hill in Sochi. While he has struggled this year on the World Cup circuit he will be banking on experience that includes winning the 2016 World Cup and the 2016 Four Hills.

Germany’s Richard Freitag has three World Cup wins so far this season but fell during the Innsbruck stop of the Four Hills and suffered a hip injury that could jeopardize his Olympic medal hopes.

RISING STARS Daniel Andre Tande has three World Cup wins. The Norwegian could be set for a breakthrough in Pyeongchang.

POTENTIAL RECORD SETTERS Another jumper to keep an eye on will be Noriaki Kasai. Known as “Legend Kasai” in his native Japan, he will be competing in his eighth consecutive Olympics.

MONDAY, FEB. 12 NBC 3-5 p.m. — Freestyle Skiing: Men’s Moguls Gold Medal Final; Ski Jumping: Women’s Individual Normal Hill Gold Medal Final; Luge: Women’s Singles 8-11:30 p.m. — Alpine Skiing: Men’s Combined, Downhill Run (LIVE) Snowboarding: Women’s Halfpipe Gold Medal Final (LIVE), Men’s Halfpipe (LIVE); Speedskating: Women’s 1500m Gold Medal Final 5-9:05 p.m. (PST) — Alpine Skiing: Men’s Combined, Downhill Run (LIVE) Snowboarding: Women’s Halfpipe Gold Medal Final (LIVE), Men’s Halfpipe (LIVE); Speedskating: Women’s 1,500m Gold Medal Final 12:05-2 a.m. — Alpine Skiing: Men’s Combined, Slalom Gold Medal Final Run (LIVE); Snowboarding: Men’s Halfpipe (LIVE) NBCSN 2:40-5:10 a.m. — Women’s Hockey: Switzerland vs. Japan 5:10-7 a.m. — Luge: Women’s Singles (LIVE); Biathlon: Women’s Pursuit Gold Medal Final (LIVE) 7-11 a.m. — Freestyle Skiing: Men’s Moguls Gold Medal Final; Women’s Ice Hockey: Sweden vs. South Korea (LIVE); Luge: Women’s Singles 11 a.m.-3 p.m. — Ski Jumping: Women’s Individual Normal Hill Gold Medal Final; Biathlon: Men’s Pursuit Gold Medal Final; Speedskating: Women’s 1,500m Gold Medal Final 8-11:30 p.m. — Curling: Mixed Doubles Semifinal (replay) 11:30 p.m.-2:40 a.m. — Snowboarding: Men’s Halfpipe (LIVE); Curling: Mixed Doubles Bronze Medal Match CNBC 5-8 p.m. — Curling: Mixed Doubles Semifinal OLYMPIC CHANNEL 5-7 a.m. — Medal Ceremonies (LIVE) TUESDAY, FEB. 13 NBC 3-5 p.m. — Speedskating: Men’s 1500m Gold Medal Final; Luge: Women’s Singles Gold Medal Final Runs; Cross Country: Men’s and Women’s Individual Sprint Gold Medal Finals

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Daily TV Schedule Curlers could be working overtime at Olympics

Events and ceremonies will be broadcast on NBC, NBC Sports Network (NBCSN), USA, CNBC and the Olympic Channel. All broadcast times are Eastern Daylight.

8-11:30 p.m. — Figure Skating: Pairs’ Short Program (LIVE); Alpine Skiing: Women’s Slalom, First Run (LIVE); Snowboarding: Men’s Halfpipe Gold Medal Final (LIVE) 6-10:05 p.m. (MST) — Figure Skating: Pairs’ Short Program (LIVE); Alpine Skiing: Women’s Slalom, First Run (LIVE); Snowboarding: Men’s Halfpipe Gold Medal Final (LIVE) 5-9:05 p.m. (PST) — Figure Skating: Pairs’ Short Program (LIVE); Alpine Skiing: Women’s Slalom, First Run (LIVE); Snowboarding: Men’s Halfpipe Gold Medal Final (LIVE) 12:05-1:30 a.m. — Alpine Skiing: Women’s Slalom, Gold Medal Final Run (LIVE); Short Track Speedskating: Women’s 500m Gold Medal Final NBCSN 2:40-5 a.m. — Women’s Ice Hockey: Canada vs. Finland (LIVE) 5-7:10 a.m. — Luge: Women’s Singles Gold Medal Final Runs; Cross Country: Men’s and Women’s Individual Sprint 7-9:30 a.m. — Women’s Ice Hockey: United States vs. Olympic Athletes from Russia (LIVE) 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. — Speedskating: Men’s 1500m Gold Medal Final; Luge: Women’s Singles Gold Medal Final Runs; Cross Country: Men’s and Women’s Individual Sprint Gold Medal Finals 12:30-4:30 p.m. — Short Track Speedskating: 500m Gold Gold Medal Final; Curling: Mixed Doubles Bronze Medal Match (replay) 7-10:10 p.m. — Figure Skating: Pairs’ Short Program (LIVE) 10:10 p.m.-12:30 a.m. — Women’s Ice Hockey: Sweden vs.

Switzerland (LIVE) 12:30-2:30 a.m. — Men’s Curling: United States vs. South Korea CNBC 5-8 p.m. — Curling: Mixed Doubles Gold Medal Match OLYMPIC CHANNEL 5-7 a.m. — Medal Ceremonies (LIVE) WEDNESDAY, FEB. 14 NBC 3-5 p.m. — Luge: Men’s Doubles Gold Medal Final; Nordic Combined: Men’s Individual Normal Hill/10 km Gold Medal Final 8-11:30 p.m. — Figure Skating: Pairs’ Gold Medal Final (LIVE); Alpine Skiing: Men’s Super G Gold Medal Final (LIVE); Men’s Skeleton (LIVE); Speedskating: Women’s 1000m Gold Medal Final 6-10:05 p.m. (MST) — Figure Skating: Pairs’ Gold Medal Final (LIVE); Alpine Skiing: Men’s Super G Gold Medal Final (LIVE); Men’s Skeleton (LIVE); Speedskating: Women’s 1000m Gold Medal Final

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(AP) — The bobsledders may push harder. The speedskaters may go faster. The ski jumpers soar higher.

Yet no one will work longer hours at the Pyeongchang Olympics than American curlers Matt and Becca Hamilton.

By qualifying for both the new mixed doubles discipline and the traditional, single-gender curling event, the siblings from McFarland, Wisc., could be on the ice for as many as 50 hours — by far the longest anyone will be in live competition at the Winter Games.

Depending on tiebreakers and whether they can get a bye in the semifinals, the Hamiltons could be competing for 18 straight days.

“No curler’s ever done that,” Becca Hamilton said. “Not many curlers are going to be able to get the opportunity.”

A 600-year-old niche sport that catches the world’s attention every four years, curling will be ever-present in Pyeongchang. Athletes will be throwing stones from the day before the torch is lit until just before the closing ceremony.

DOUBLE TIME Mixed doubles will make its Olympic debut , followed on the ice at the Gangneung curling center by the more familiar, single-gender discipline. The United States was one of the few countries that allowed athletes who qualified in traditional curling to also try out in mixed.

That gives the Hamiltons an unprecedented chance to claim two curling medals at the same Winter Games. Or, if they falter in the mixed doubles, get a second chance to claim only the second Olympic curling medal in U.S. history. “It’s a great chance to throw rocks we’re going to be playing,” Shuster said. “I’m sure it’s going to be mentally daunting for them. But if he gets it rolling through mixed doubles, he’s going to come into the men’s team and not miss a beat.”

Jenny Perret, who will compete in mixed doubles and also is an alternate on the Swiss women’s team, is the only other curler working double duty.

O, CANADA Canada has been curling’s most dominant country, and they’re among the favorites in all three events.

The country is the three-time defending Olympic men’s champion, winning silver in the two other Winter Games since curling was returned to the program in 1998.

The Canadian women have two

golds, a silver and two bronzes at the Olympics. Canada is also the defending men’s and women’s world champion, while finishing second in mixed doubles.

But two of the four men that will represent Canada in Pyeongchang — and all four women — are rookies.

“No matter who goes from Canada in any year, no matter if it’s the worlds or the Olympics, you always have a target on our back,” said lead Ben Hebert, who with vice-skip Marc Kennedy won gold in Vancouver.

“The first time, we did what we were supposed to do,” he said. “Eight years, it’s been a long time and a long journey.

You never know if you’re going to get back.”

The Canadian women’s team is the defending world champion, going undefeated at the worlds.

“That’s the first time a women’s team has ever done that,” Courtney said. “We love the pressure, we love having expectations. I think that’s a great thing.”

HOME ICE How big is the home-ice advantage in curling?

Shuster remembers going to his first Olympics in Italy, a country that like South Korea has very little curling tradition. After receiving a berth as the host nation, rather than the qualification process, skip Joel Retornaz led Italy to a 42 record in afternoon and evening matches “when they packed the place full of screaming Italians “ and 0-3 when they played in the less-lively 9 a.m. session. “The Koreans are certainly going to have that advantage,” said Hebert, who rode the crowd enthusiasm to the top of the podium in 2010.

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Viewing guide to the XXXIII Olympic Winter Games February 8-25, 2018 - PyeongChang, South Korea

Daily TV Schedule

Events and ceremonies will be broadcast on NBC, NBC Sports Network (NBCSN), USA, CNBC and the Olympic Channel. Broadcast times are Eastern Daylight unless noted.

Driver Justin Olsen with Austin Landi, Luis Moreira and brakeman Evan Weinstock, of the United States, compete in the four-man bobsled World Cup race in Lake Placid, N.Y.

Bobsledding should find its next driving star (AP) — This could be the most uncertain Olympic bobsled competition in some time.

The most wide open, too.

In 2014, it was widely expected that Russia would be tough to beat in the two- and four-man races. And it was, with Alexandr Zubkov winning gold in both events, only to have those medals stripped as part of the fallout from the state-sponsored doping program that has left a giant cloud over what the home team did at the Sochi Games.

In 2010, Steven Holcomb and his famed “Night Train” sled lived up to expectations and finally ended the Americans’ 62-year gold medal drought in the Olympic four-man race.

In 2006, Andre Lange of Germany was the consensus pick to pull off the daunting double — gold in both events — and he delivered.

Zubkov is now banned. Holcomb died last year. Lange has long been retired.

So this year in Pyeongchang, a new men’s Olympic bobsled driving star will have to emerge. Germany, Canada, Latvia, Switzerland and the

U.S. all will head to these Olympics believing they have a realistic chance of reaching the medal podium, and so will the host South Koreans, though they would still seem to be a longshot.

The women’s bobsled race is much easier to figure out, even with 20 sleds.

Five drivers are the only ones with realistic medal shots: Canada’s Kaillie Humphries is chasing her third straight gold medal. Elana Meyers Taylor and Jamie Greubel Poser of the U.S. won silver and bronze, respectively, in 2014 and German drivers Mariama Jamanka and Stephanie Schneider have also worked their way toward the top of the world rankings.

MEDAL FAVORITES Germany in men’s bobsled, the U.S. and Canada in women’s bobsled.

BEST RIVALRY They’re friends, but that doesn’t stop Canada’s Kaillie Humphries and U.S. star Elana Meyers Taylor from also being rivals. They finished first and second in Sochi, and Humphries is going for her third straight gold.

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sorts: Todd Hays is now helping coach the Canadians.

RISING STARS Codie Bascue and Evan Weinstock are two sliders that the U.S. program has pointed to for years as future cornerstones of the program. Their time is now. Pyeongchang marks the Olympic debuts for Bascue, a pilot, and Weinstock, who teammates boldly predict will go down as the best push athlete in U.S. history.

SLIDING MACHINES They don’t handle like race cars, but there’s race-car technology at play in bobsledding. BMW works with several national teams, including the U.S., Germany and Canada, among others.

Ferrari works with the Italians, and McLaren was part of the British bobsled program in recent years.

GET READY In all three sliding sports, Curve 9 will likely decide the whole race.

There are other tricky spots on the Pyeongchang track, but chances are high that the driver who gets through that turn the best over four runs will reach the medal podium.

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5-9:05 p.m. (PST) — Figure Skating: Pairs’ Gold Medal Final (LIVE); Alpine Skiing: Men’s Super G Gold Medal Final (LIVE); Men’s Skeleton (LIVE); Speedskating: Women’s 1000m Gold Medal Final 12:05-1:30 a.m. — Snowboard Cross: Men’s Gold Medal Final (LIVE); Men’s Skeleton NBCSN 2:30-6:30 a.m. — Speedskating: Women’s 1,000m Gold Medal Final (LIVE); Nordic Combined: Men’s Individual Normal Hill/10 km Gold Medal Final (LIVE); Skeleton: Women’s Training 6:30-9:30 a.m. — Men’s Ice Hockey: United States vs. Slovenia (LIVE) 9:30-11:30 a.m. — Luge: Men’s Doubles Gold Medal Final; Skeleton: Women’s Training 11:30 a.m.-1:15 p.m. — Biathlon: Women’s 15km Gold Medal Final 1:15-5 p.m. — Women Curling: Denmark vs. Sweden 7-10:10 p.m. — Figure Skating: Pairs’ Gold Medal Final (LIVE) 10:10 p.m.-12:30 a.m. — Women’s Ice Hockey: United States vs. Canada (LIVE) 12:30-2:40 a.m. — Women’s Curling: United States vs. Britain USA 2:30-5 a.m. — Women’s Ice Hockey: South Korea vs. Japan (LIVE) 5-7:10 a.m. — Women’s Curling: Britain vs. Olympic Athletes from Russia 7:10-9:30 a.m. — Men’s Ice Hockey: Olympic Athletes from Russia vs. Slovakia (LIVE) CNBC 5-8 p.m. — Women’s Curling: United States vs. Japan 10 p.m.-12:30 a.m. — Men’s Ice Hockey: Finland vs. Germany (LIVE) OLYMPIC CHANNEL 5-7 a.m. — Medal Ceremonies (LIVE) THURSDAY, FEB. 15 NBC 3-5 p.m. — Cross Country: Women’s 10km Gold Medal Final; Speedskating: Men’s 10000m Gold Medal Final 8 p.m.-12:30 a.m. — Figure Skating: Men’s Short Program (LIVE); Snowboard Cross: Women’s Gold Medal Final (LIVE); Skeleton: Men’s Gold Medal Final Runs (LIVE); Freestyle Skiing: Women’s Aerials; Cross Country: Women’s 10km Gold Medal Final

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Daily TV Schedule Canada country to beat in figure skating

Events and ceremonies will be broadcast on NBC, NBC Sports Network (NBCSN), USA, CNBC and the Olympic Channel. All broadcast times are Eastern Daylight.

5-10:05 p.m. (PST) — Figure Skating: Men’s Short Program (LIVE); Snowboard Cross: Women’s Gold Medal Final (LIVE); Skeleton: Men’s Gold Medal Final Runs (LIVE); Freestyle Skiing: Women’s Aerials; Cross Country: Women’s 10km Gold Medal Final 1:05-2 a.m. — Luge: Team Relay Gold Medal Final; Biathlon: Men’s 20km Gold Medal Final NBCSN 2:40-5 a.m. — Men’s Ice Hockey: Norway vs. Sweden (LIVE) 5-7:10 a.m. — Cross Country: Women’s 10km Gold Medal Final 7:10-9:30 a.m. — Men’s Ice Hockey: Switzerland vs. Canada (LIVE) 9:30 a.m.-Noon — Luge: Team Relay Gold Medal Final; Speedskating: Men’s 10000m Gold Medal Final Noon-2 p.m. — Biathlon: Men’s 20km Gold Medal Final 2-5 p.m. — Men’s Curling: United States vs. Italy 7-11 p.m. — Figure Skating: Men’s Short Program (LIVE) 11 p.m.-2:40 a.m. — Men’s Curling: United States vs. Sweden; Cross Country: Men’s 15km Gold Medal Final (LIVE) USA 2:30-5 a.m. — Women’s Ice Hockey: Olympic Athletes from Russia vs. Finland (LIVE) 5-7:10 a.m. — Men’s Curling: Canada vs. Norway 7:10-9:30 a.m. — Men’s Ice Hockey: Czech Republic vs. South Korea (LIVE) CNBC 5-8 p.m. — Women’s Curling: United States vs. Switzerland 10 p.m.-12:30 a.m. — Men’s Ice Hockey: United States vs.

Slovakia (LIVE) OLYMPIC CHANNEL 5-7 a.m. — Medal Ceremonies (LIVE)

FRIDAY, FEB. 16 NBC 3-5 p.m. — Speedskating: Women’s 5000m Gold Medal Final; Cross Country: Men’s 15km Gold Medal Final; Ski Jumping: Men’s Individual Large Hill 8 p.m.-Midnight — Figure Skating: Men’s Gold Medal Final (LIVE); Alpine Skiing: Women’s Super G Gold Medal Final (LIVE); Freestyle Skiing: Women’s Aerials Gold Medal Final; Women’s Skeleton 5-9:35 p.m. (PST) — Figure Skating: Men’s Gold Medal Final (LIVE); Alpine Skiing: Women’s Super G Gold Medal Final; Freestyle Skiing: Women’s Aerials Gold Medal Final; Women’s Skeleton

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(AP) — The Maple Leaf could be on frequent display above the medals podium at the Pyeongchang Olympics.

Canada heads to South Korea with the strongest overall figure skating team and with medal contenders in all four individual events. That’s well ahead of expectations for the United States, which would be doing well to win three medals at the Winter Games.

For the Canadians, 2010 champions and 2014 runners-up Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir are positioned to add more prizes to their ice dance collection.

Meghan Duhamel and Eric Radford are in the mix in pairs, Patrick Chan will try to make his final Olympics more memorable than his previous visits in a wide open men’s field, and Kaetlyn Osmond and Gabrielle Daleman should challenge in the women’s event.

“Canada is strong in all four disciplines,” said Brian Orser, who trains Daleman as well as defending men’s champion Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan and two-time world champ Javier Fernandez of Spain. “Especially in the last four years, our two ladies have really risen to top, and that is exciting.

“They have the biggest team, I know that, and one of the strongest,” Orser said. “They will be in contention with that team of Russian skaters.”

The Russians, of course, will not be representing their country after the Sochi doping scandal led to sanctions against the nation by the IOC. But they will be on hand, skating under the Olympic flag, and are expected to be quite representative, particularly in women and pairs.

For the Americans, Nathan Chen and his five-quad free skate could be the biggest story of the games. Chen likely is the only gold medal candidate for the U.S., though the country also has a chance to win a medal in the team competition.

“The results are not up to me,” the

The United State’s high flyer, Nathan Chen, could be the story in the 2018 Olympic men’s figure skating competition.

18-year-old Chen said. “When I am case her elegance in the absence of doing things the right way, I am jumping ability. healthy, and I clean up mistakes, I Daleman upset Osmond at the think it is possible to win. It’s impor- Canadian championships and both will tant not to let any distractions get into be in medal consideration, along along your head. Enjoy it all, enjoy the with Japan’s Satoko Miyahara and process, and that’s usually when I Kaori Sakamoto. The best shot for the skate my best.”

U.S. could be nationals runner-up WOMEN Mirai Nagasu, who finished fourth in This seemed to be the province of Vancouver and whose triple axel is the Evgenia Medvedeva, the Russian wild card. dynamo who won the last two world MEN titles and was undefeated since 2015.

Chen has raised the jumping bar so But in her final major competition high with his collection of quads that if before Pyeongchang, she lost to 15- he skates cleanly, his technical marks year-old training partner Alina are good enough to join the likes of Zagitova at the European Dick Button, Scott Hamilton, Brian Championships. In Moscow, no less. Boitano and Evan Lysacek as Olympic Zagitova’s technical brilliance could gold medalist from the U.S. make her the front-runner at the “Nathan technically would have so Olympics, but Medvedeva’s track many points with the five quads he record is so impressive that she could miss a triple axel and still win,” deserves top billing. said Indianapolis-based skating coach Sochi bronze winner Carolina and former Olympian Marie Millikan.

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Chen not America’s only hope

Siblings Maia and Alex Shibutani compete in the ice dance event. They will be among Americans seeking gold in South Korea.

His main challengers figure to be Fernandez, fresh off his sixth European title, and Hanyu, the Japanese star who has been hampered by an ankle ligament injury and only recently got back to training.

Japan’s Shoma Uno also is stout. Chan could be in the mix. And two other Americans, Adam Rippon and 17-yearold Vincent Zhou, will aim for the top 10.

ICE DANCE Virtue and Moir could stamp themselves as the most accomplished duo in Olympic annals with another gold medal. They’ve taken sabbaticals and returned just as innovative and mesmerizing.

As in 2014, when they barely lost to Americans Meryl Davis and Charlie White, the Canadians face formidable foes in France’s Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron. Virtue and Moir edged them at the 2017 worlds, only to see the French win the Grand Prix Final in December. U.S. champions Madison Hubbell and Zach Donohue, siblings Maia and Alex Shibutani, and veterans Madison Chock and Evan Bates also will contend. The Shibutanis are world bronze medalists.

PAIRS China’s Sui Wenjing and Han Cong are world champions, and their athleticism is stunning.

“They can do side-by-side triples in combination if they need to,” Millikan said.

They might need to, considering a loaded field includes Germany’s Aliona Savchenko and Bruno Massot; China’s Yu Xiaoyu and Zhang Hao; Duhamel and Radford; and Russia’s Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov.

Alexa Scimeca-Knierim and Chris Knierim of the U.S. will seek the top 10.

(AP) — U.S. men’s figure skating history at the Olympics is gilded with gold. Nathan Chen has his sights set on some more. At 18 and already a two-time national champion, Chen is among the favorites for the Pyeongchang Games. Some say there are five reasons why: the number of quadruple jumps he has planned for the free skate. And that outrageous agenda puts him in a stratosphere to which his fellow contenders can’t soar.

Chen is the American with the best shot at gold in South Korea. Here’s a look at the U.S. team: MEN Seventeen-year-old Vincent Zhou is also a quad machine, and like Chen he is improving in other areas.

Still, he’s a longshot for a top-five spot.

Adam Rippon, 28, was added to the squad in place of Ross Miner after finishing fourth at nationals.

A committee felt the veteran has a stronger international resume, and his flair for the dramatic in his programs goes over well with the crowds and could also land him in the top 10.

WOMEN The Americans are outsiders for a podium spot, though their stories are nevertheless intriguing.

Bradie Tennell, who will be 20 when the Olympics begin, emerged from the shadows to win the U.S. championship. She was spot-on and seems to have, well, ice water running through her veins.

Karen Chen, the 2017 national champ, slid back for much of this season, then had a strong showing at nationals to earn a spot for Pyeongchang. The 17-yearold could use some polish.

America’s best chance to reach the women’s podium rests with 24-year-old Mirai Nagasu. She was fourth at the Vancouver Games eight years ago, then slumped, before rallying to finish third at the 2014 nationals.

ICE DANCE All three American duos are formidable, though breaking into the top two ahead of the Canadian and French ice dancers might be near-impossible.

Madison Hubbell and Zach Donohue broke out of their habit as “bronzemaids” by winning the U.S. championship, and their free dance not only is sultry, but complex and enchanting.

Siblings Maia and Alex Shibutani have a strong resume on the international scene and a free dance filled with energy and difficulty, while Madison Chock and Evan Bates — who like the Shibutanis were on the U.S. squad at the Sochi Games — also are well-regarded internationally. It’s possible they could finish third, fourth and fifth in any order.

Daily TV Schedule

Events and ceremonies will be broadcast on NBC, NBC Sports Network (NBCSN), USA, CNBC and the Olympic Channel. Broadcast times are Eastern Daylight unless noted.

12:35-2 a.m. — Freestyle Skiing: Women’s Slopestyle Final NBCSN 2:40-5 a.m. — Men’s Ice Hockey: Olympic Athletes from Russia vs. Slovenia (LIVE) 5-7:10 a.m. — Women’s Curling: Sweden vs. Olympic Athletes from Russia 7:10-10:45 a.m. — Men’s Ice Hockey: Sweden vs. Germany (LIVE); Women’s Skeleton 10:45 a.m.-2 p.m. — Speedskating: Women’s 5000m Gold Medal Final; Ski Jumping: Men’s Individual Large Hill 2-5 p.m. — Women’s Curling: South Korea vs. Switzerland 7-10:10 p.m. — Figure Skating: Men’s Gold Medal Final (LIVE) 10:10 p.m.-12:30 a.m. — Men’s Ice Hockey: Canada vs. Czech Republic (LIVE) 12:30-2:40 a.m. — Women’s Curling: United States vs. Olympic Athletes from Russia USA 7-9:30 a.m. — Men’s Ice Hockey: Finland vs. Norway (LIVE) CNBC 5-8 p.m. — Men’s Curling: United States vs. Denmark 10 p.m.-12:30 a.m. — Ice Hockey: Women’s Quarterfinal (LIVE) OLYMPIC CHANNEL 5-7 a.m. — Medal Ceremonies (LIVE) SATURDAY, FEB. 17 NBC 3-6 p.m. — Freestyle Skiing: Men’s Aerials; Biathlon: Women’s 12.5km Mass Start Gold Medal Final; Cross Country: Women’s 4x5km Relay Gold Medal Final 8-11 p.m. — Alpine Skiing: Men’s Giant Slalom, First Run (LIVE); Short Track Speedskating: Women’s 1500 and Men’s 1000 Gold Medal Finals; Skeleton: Women’s Gold Medal Final Runs; Ski Jumping: Men’s Individual Large Hill Gold Medal Final 6-9:30 p.m. (MST) — Alpine Skiing: Men’s Giant Slalom, First Run (LIVE); Short Track Speedskating: Women’s 1500 and Men’s 1000 Gold Medal Finals; Skeleton: Women’s Gold Medal Final Runs; Ski Jumping: Men’s Individual Large Hill Gold Medal Final 5-8:30 p.m. (PST) — Alpine Skiing: Men’s Giant Slalom, First Run (LIVE); Short Track Speedskating: Women’s 1500 and Men’s 1000 Gold Medal Finals; Women’s Skeleton: Gold Medal Final Runs; Ski Jumping: Men’s Individual Large Hill Gold Medal Final 11:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m. — Alpine Skiing: Men’s Giant Slalom Gold Medal Final Run; Freestyle Skiing: Men’s Slopestyle Gold Medal Final

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Daily TV Schedule HOCKEY: Without NHL, Games ‘Wide Open’

Events and ceremonies will be broadcast on NBC, NBC Sports Network (NBCSN), USA, CNBC and the Olympic Channel. All broadcast times are Eastern Daylight.

NBCSN 2:40-5 a.m. — Men’s Ice Hockey: Switzerland vs. South Korea (LIVE) 5-7:10 a.m. — Men’s Curling: Canada vs. Sweden 7:10-10:30 a.m. — Men’s Ice Hockey: United States vs. Olympic Athletes from Russia (LIVE); Freestyle Skiing: Men’s Aerials 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. — Cross Country: Women’s 4x5km Relay Gold Medal Final; Biathlon: Women’s 12.5km Mass Start Gold Medal Final; Short Track Speedskating: Women’s 1500 and Men’s 1000 Gold Medal Finals 1:30-5:30 p.m. — Skeleton: Women’s Gold Medal Final Runs; Ski Jumping: Men’s Individual Large Hill Gold Medal Final 7-10:10 p.m. — Freestyle Skiing: Men’s Slopestyle (LIVE) 10:10 p.m.-12:30 a.m. — Men’s Ice Hockey: Germany vs.

Norway (LIVE) 12:30-2:40 a.m. — Men’s Curling: United States vs. Japan USA 2:30-5 a.m. — Ice Hockey: Women’s Quarterfinal (LIVE) 5-7:10 a.m. — Men’s Curling: Switzerland vs. Norway 7:10-9:30 a.m. — Men’s Ice Hockey: Slovakia vs. Slovenia (LIVE) CNBC 5-8 p.m. — Women’s Curling: United States vs. Canada OLYMPIC CHANNEL 5-7 a.m. — Medal Ceremonies (LIVE) SUNDAY, FEB. 18 NBC 3-6 p.m. — Freestyle Skiing: Men’s Aerials Gold Medal Final; Speedskating: Men’s Team Pursuit; Biathlon: Men’s 15km Mass Start Gold Medal Final 7 p.m.-Midnight — Figure Skating: Ice Dancing Short Dance (LIVE); Freestyle Skiing: Women’s Halfpipe (LIVE); Speedskating: Women’s 500m Gold Medal Final; Two-Man Bobsled; Cross Country: Men’s 4x10km Relay Gold Medal Final 4-9:35 p.m. (PST) — Figure Skating: Ice Dancing Short Dance (LIVE); Freestyle Skiing: Women’s Halfpipe (LIVE); Speedskating: Women’s 500m Gold Medal Final; Two-Man Bobsled; Cross Country: Men’s 4x10km Relay Gold Medal Final 12:35-2 a.m. — Snowboarding: Women’s Big Air NBCSN 2:40-5 a.m. — Men’s Ice Hockey: Czech Republic vs.

Switzerland (LIVE)

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(AP) — When Willie Desjardins coached Canada’s 2010 world junior team stacked with future NHL players Taylor Hall, Jordan Eberle, Brayden Schenn, Alex Pietrangelo and goaltenders Jake Allen and Martin Jones, it took a wild final game with John Carlson scoring in overtime to win the gold medal for the United States.

Just like Canada was the most talented team back then, Russia is likely to have that role at the upcoming Winter Olympics. Desjardins isn’t concerned about that.

“In this tournament, anybody can win,” Desjardins said.

Goodbye, NHL players. Hello, unpredictability.

No NHL participation for the first time since 1994 threatens to upset the traditional world hockey order after Canada has won the past three best-on-best tournaments: the 2016 World Cup, 2014 Sochi Olympics and 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

Russia is considered the favorite because it has former NHL players Ilya Kovalchuk, Pavel Datsyuk and Andrei Markov, though Finland could make gold its sixth medal in the past five Games or Sweden could win for the first time since 2006.

Coach Tony Granato’s American team was put together with players from European professional leagues, the NCAA and American Hockey League.

“This Olympics is wide open for a lot of reasons,” Granato said.

“Russia’s got the most talented players in the world. They’re going to have the team that steps on the ice with the most talented players. Does that make them the best team for two weeks? No. We all know that. We all know how sports works. All you’re looking for is an opportunity to make the most and be the best that you can be for that period of time.”

Wisconsin coach Tony Granato is coaching this year’s U.S. Men’s hockey team, which will be without NHL players.

Because it’s such a short tourna- the youngest: Sweden defenseman ment with three pool-play games, a Rasmus Dahlin, who’s projected to qualifying round and then quarterfi- be the No. 1 pick in the NHL draft in nals, it could come down to which June. Dahlin has 11 points in 29 team gels first after limited prepara- games playing against grown men in tion time. Or maybe another goal- the Swedish Hockey League and had tender will pull off what Latvia’s six points in seven games at the Kristers Gudlevskis almost did when world juniors. He’s just 17. making 55 saves to give Canada a WHO ARE THESE GUYS? scare in the quarterfinals in Sochi.

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Daily TV Schedule

Team Canada seeks 5th gold (AP) — Four years is a long time to wait for a second chance. For some, the chance for golden redemption has been much longer.

The United States women’s hockey team has not won Olympic gold since the sport was added in 1998. The Americans have since watched Canada take home four straight gold medals.

The drought has hurt most since 2014, when the Americans blew a 2-0 lead in the gold medal game and had the puck clank off the post, just missing an empty-net goal before Canada tied it with 54.6 seconds left in regulation. Marie-Philip Poulin scored again for a 3-2 overtime win, keeping the gold medal with the country that created the sport.

The Americans have won four straight world championships, the last in overtime last April in Michigan. Yet Canada just doesn’t lose in the Olympics. The world’s dominant hockey powers meet in pool play Feb. 15 in a game scheduled so North America can watch at 10:10 p.m. EST on Feb. 14. If the Pyeongchang Games go as four of the past five Olympics have, they will meet again Feb. 22 with gold at stake once more.

GOALIE EDGE The edge in net goes to Canada: goaltender Shannon Szabados is going for her third gold and Genevieve Lacasse won her first in 2014. Lacasse also had the only shutout during the US-Canada exhibition tour .

“Shannon brings a calmness to our team, for sure,” Schuler said. “She’s a big physical presence in the net, and obviously has a great history.” The Americans are bringing a trio of goalies making their Olympic debuts in Alex Rigsby, Nicole Hensley and Maddie Rooney.

Stauber played goalie himself and was the goaltender coach before being named head coach last May. “We have trust in every single one of them, no matter who’s in net,” said defenseman Kacey Bellamy.

Events and ceremonies will be broadcast on NBC, NBC Sports Network (NBCSN), USA, CNBC and the Olympic Channel. Broadcast times are Eastern Daylight unless noted.

U.S. hockey players Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson, left, and Monique Lamoureux-Morando pose for a portrait at the Team USA Media Summit in Park City, Utah.

It’s hockey’s sister act (AP) — Just call it a sister thing. Whenever another hockey team has sisters on the rosters, Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson and Monique LamoureuxMorando take notice.

The Olympians are twins themselves. Combine that with how few sisters play hockey or reach national teams playing internationally, it’s easy enough to notice whenever sisters are dressing up for another country.

“It’s just cool to see,” Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson said.

The Lamoureux sisters will have some sisterly company at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games.

Teammate Hannah Brandt’s sister, Marissa, plays for the unified Korean women’s team, and Switzerland has two sets of sisters on the roster with Nina, Isabel and Monika Waidacher, plus twins Laura and Sara Benz. Canada nearly had its own sister act with Sarah and Amy Potomak, though neither made the Olympic team.

Being sisters definitely can provide an edge in hockey.

“When we get the opportunity to be on the ice together, there’s a chemistry that just never goes away,” Jocelyne LamoureuxDavidson said. “It’s always there.”

Even though women’s hockey didn’t debut at the Olympics until 1998 in Nagano, playing hockey simply was something the Lamoureux sisters were bound to do. They were born in Fargo, N.D., their father, Pierre, played for the University of North Dakota.

The Lamoureux sisters played a year in college at Minnesota before switching to North Dakota for their final three seasons, the last in 2012-13. They have played internationally for the United States since 2006. Both play forward, though Monique also plays defense. Now 28, the sisters credit each other for their long success, which now includes a third Olympic berth.

5-7:10 a.m. — Women’s Curling: Canada vs. Switzerland 7:10-10:15 a.m. — Men’s Ice Hockey: Sweden vs. Finland (LIVE); Two-Man Bobsled 10:15 a.m.-1 p.m. — Freestyle Skiing: Men’s Aerials Gold Medal Final; Speedskating: Women’s 500m Gold Medal Final, Men’s Team Pursuit; Biathlon: Men’s 15km Mass Start Gold Medal Final 1-5 p.m. — Cross Country: Men’s 4x10km Relay Gold Medal Final; 7-10:15 p.m. — Figure Skating: Ice Dancing Short Dance (LIVE) 10:15 p.m.-1:30 a.m. — Freestyle Skiing: Men’s Aerials Gold Medal Final; Women’s Ice Hockey: Semifinal (LIVE) USA 7-9:30 a.m. — Men’s Ice Hockey: Canada vs. South Korea (LIVE) CNBC 4-7 p.m. — Men’s Curling: United States vs. Norway OLYMPIC CHANNEL 5-7 a.m. — Medal Ceremonies (LIVE) MONDAY, FEB. 19 NBC 3-5 p.m. — Ski Jumping: Men’s Team Large Hill Gold Medal Final; Speedskating: Men’s 500m Gold Medal Final, Women’s Team Pursuit 8-11:30 p.m. — Figure Skating: Ice Dancing Gold Medal Final (LIVE); Freestyle Skiing: Women’s Halfpipe Gold Medal Final (LIVE); Bobsled: Two-Man Gold Medal Final Runs 6-10:05 p.m. (MST) — Figure Skating: Ice Dancing Gold Medal Final (LIVE); Freestyle Skiing: Women’s Halfpipe Gold Medal Final (LIVE); Bobsled: Two-Man Gold Medal Final Runs 5-9:05 p.m. (PST) — Figure Skating: Ice Dancing Gold Medal Final (LIVE); Freestyle Skiing: Women’s Halfpipe Gold Medal Final (LIVE); Bobsled: Two-Man Gold Medal Final Runs 12:05-1 a.m. — Freestyle Skiing: Men’s Halfpipe (LIVE) NBCSN 1:30-4:30 a.m. — Women’s Curling: United States vs. Denmark 4:30-7:10 a.m. — Men’s Curling: United States vs. Canada 7:10-11 a.m. — Women’s Hockey: Semifinal (LIVE); Ski Jumping: Men’s Team Large Hill Gold Medal Final 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. — Bobsled: Two-Man Gold Medal Final Runs; Speedskating: Men’s 500m Gold Medal Final, Women’s Team Pursuit 12:30-3:30 p.m. — Men’s Curling: United States vs Canada 7-10:10 p.m. — Figure Skating: Ice Dancing Gold Medal Final (LIVE); Alpine Skiing: Women’s Downhill Training

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Viewing guide to the XXXIII Olympic Winter Games February 8-25, 2018 - PyeongChang, South Korea

Daily TV Schedule California kid Chloe Kim jumps, twists

Events and ceremonies will be broadcast on NBC, NBC Sports Network (NBCSN), USA, CNBC and the Olympic Channel. All broadcast times are Eastern Daylight.

10:10 p.m.-12:30 a.m. — Men’s Hockey: Elimination Round (LIVE) 12:30-2:40 a.m. — Men’s Curling: Canada vs. Japan CNBC 5-8 p.m. — Women’s Curling: United States vs. China OLYMPIC CHANNEL 5-7 a.m. — Medal Ceremonies (LIVE) TUESDAY, FEB. 20 NBC 3-5 p.m. — Biathlon: Mixed Relay Gold Medal Final; Nordic Combined: Men’s Individual Large Hill/10km Gold Medal Final 8 p.m.-12:30 a.m. — Alpine Skiing: Women’s Downhill Gold Medal Final (LIVE); Figure Skating: Ladies’ Short Program (LIVE); Women’s Bobsled; Snowboarding: Men’s Big Air (LIVE) 5-10:05 p.m. (PST) — Alpine Skiing: Women’s Downhill Gold Medal Final (LIVE); Figure Skating: Ladies’ Short Program (LIVE); Women’s Bobsled; Snowboarding: Men’s Big Air (LIVE) 1:05-2 a.m. — Freestyle Skiing: Men’s Ski Cross Gold Medal Final; Short Track Speedskating: Women’s 3000 Relay Gold Medal Final NBCSN 2:40-5 a.m. — Ice Hockey: Men’s Elimination Round (LIVE) 5-7:10 a.m. — Women’s Curling: United States vs. South Korea 7:10-9:30 a.m. — Ice Hockey: Men’s Elimination Round (LIVE) 9:30 a.m.-Noon — Nordic Combined: Men’s Individual Large Hill/10km Gold Medal Final; Biathlon: Mixed Relay Gold Medal Final Noon-5 p.m. — Nordic Combined: Men’s Individual Large Hill/10km Gold Medal Final; Short Track Speedskating: Women’s 3000 Relay Gold Medal Final; Women’s Curling: United States vs.

South Korea 7-10:45 p.m. — Figure Skating: Ladies’ Short Program (LIVE) 10:45 p.m.-2:40 a.m. — Women’s Curling: Canada vs. Britain; South Korea vs. Olympic Athletes from Russia USA 7-9:30 a.m. — Ice Hockey: Men’s Elimination Round (LIVE) CNBC 5-8 p.m. — Men’s Curling: United States vs. Switzerland 10 p.m.-12:30 a.m. — Ice Hockey: Men’s Quarterfinal (LIVE) OLYMPIC CHANNEL 5-7 a.m. — Medal Ceremonies (LIVE)

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and flips her way to Olympic games

(AP) — Ask U.S. snowboarder Chloe Kim what she thinks the “Chloe Kim Story” really is this year and she hesitates just a moment, before deciding on “The California girl that went to the Olympics.”

It’s perfect, easy, and oh-so-fitting for the 17-year-old from Torrance, California, who loves music and the mall almost as much as she loves stomping her runs — and the competition — in the halfpipe.

But Kim, whether it’s fair or not, has come to represent more than that for these Olympics.

Her parents are from South Korea.

Among the handful of relatives who live there is Chloe’s grandma, who has been known to brag about her high-flying granddaughter if, say, she’s out to tea with her friends and a picture of Chloe happens to appear in the newspaper, which happens fairly often.

“They’ve never seen me compete before,” Chloe says. “I’m excited to have them there.”

Though it’s tempting to turn Kim’s story into a bigger narrative about a lifelong wish to win a gold medal in her family’s country, that narrative is not the right one.

She admits to not having all that much more familiarity with South Korea than the average 17-year-old American kid, and the fact is, more than any grand plan, it was the quirks of the calendar, the International Olympic Committee and a hundred other things that will place her in Pyeongchang for her Olympic debut.

Kim was so good at age 13, she might have won the Sochi Olympics had she been old enough . But with the Olympics not allowing anyone in under 15, she did not make the cut.

And though her father sacrificed much

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Chloe Kim competes during the women’s snowboarding superpipe final at the Dew Tour iON Mountain Championships in Breckenridge, Colo. time, effort and sleep to further Chloe’s Switzerland with her aunt, and was regcareer, the thought of doing it so his ularly waking up at 4 a.m. for long daughter could make her first Olympic train rides to the mountain.

At age 10, Chloe was back in splash in his native country was never California, and her folks were rearrangpart of the equation.

“When we started, Korea was not ing both her and their lives with the declared as hosting the Olympics,” thought she might become a profesJong Jin Kim says. “I thought I had a sional snowboarder.

Home-schooling and 2 a.m. wakechance to bring her to the Olympics, so it was amazing and very lucky that they up calls became routine. In 2014, a month before the Olympics she could matched together.”

Jong Jin Kim moved to the U.S. in not attend, she took her first Winter X 1982 to pursue his engineering degree. Games medal — a silver. She won her He met his wife, Boran, in Switzerland. first Winter X Games the next year, Chloe, the youngest of three sisters, and after her victory in Saturday was born in 2000, and when she turned night’s halfpipe contest, she now has 4, Jong Jin bought her a snowboard three under her belt. What separates her and dragged her onto the mountain. from the pack on the halfpipe is her Chloe took lessons, and by the time she ability to do back-to-back 1080-degree was 7, she was winning contests. By jumps. She first pulled that off at a conthe time she was 8, she was living in test in 2016.

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Viewing guide to the XXXIII Olympic Winter Games February 8-25, 2018 - PyeongChang, South Korea

On third try, Sweeney makes Olympics

Yun Sungbin, of South Korea, competes in a world cup men’s skeleton race in Whistler, British Columbia.

Sungbin leads pack in skeleton

(AP) — Korean skeleton star Yun Sungbin is absolutely obsessed with Iron Man. He may be called Gold Man soon.

South Korea has 26 gold medals in its Winter Olympic history — all on ice, all with skates involved, most from speedskating. The nation doesn’t have much of a sliding history, but has made great strides as it builds momentum to host the Pyeongchang Games.

Yun was the only slider to finish first or second in each of the first six World Cup races this season. If there’s any pressure on him as he goes into his second Olympics, it’s not showing. He will face serious competition from the Latvian brother duo of Martins Dukurs and Tomass Dukurs, while Matt Antoine of the United States has been trying to build his entire season around peaking in Pyeongchang.

In women’s skeleton, Britain might have a chance at a third straight gold from a third different woman. Laura Deas will look to carry on her team’s tradition.

(AP) — Emily Sweeney owns no clothing with the Olympic rings emblazoned on them. She’s refused to wear anything bearing that logo, instead sometimes staring at those who were and wondering if her chance would ever come.

At long last, it’s here.

Sweeney is one of three women on the team that USA Luge is sending to the games, after clinching her spot earlier this month and ending an eight-year odyssey that had more twists and turns than the ice-coated winding chutes that she slides down to make a living.

“It doesn’t feel real,” Sweeney said. “I feel exactly the same as I did before.”

Much like a luge track itself, Sweeney’s path to the Olympics has been long, cold, bumpy and treacherous. She lost a race-off for the final spot on the 2010 U.S. Olympic team — to her sister. She missed out again when trying to make the 2014 team for the Sochi Games, doomed in part by injuries.

She’s barely a year removed from surgery on a wrist that is still giving her problems.

This time, she handled every challenge.

Sweeney is ranked eighth in the current World Cup standings, won a gold medal in a sprint race in Germany earlier this season and survived a U.S. team selection process that went down to the final weekend. Her spot was clinched in a most unceremonious fashion: It became mathematically secured on a night when she wasn’t even at the track, and instead was alone doing laundry at the Olympic Training Center that she’s called home for years.

“She’s resilient, right? She had a goal and she went for it,” said a teary-eyed and beaming Megan Sweeney, Emily’s sister — the win-

Daily TV Schedule

Events and ceremonies will be broadcast on NBC, NBC Sports Network (NBCSN), USA, CNBC and the Olympic Channel. Broadcast times are Eastern Daylight unless noted.

Emily Sweeney celebrates as she slides to the finish after a women’s World Cup Luge sprint event in Park City, Utah. ner of that race-off a week before Christmas 2009 for that winter’s Olympic berth, one where she got the right to race in British Columbia while her kid sister watched from the stands. “She was so aggressive.

She’s way better than I ever was.”

Erin Hamlin is going to her fourth Olympics for the U.S., and Summer Britcher is going to her second. Sweeney, who has spent 14 of her 24 winters on a luge sled, is the lone rookie on the women’s team.

In a sport where the Germans have always dominated and figure to do so again at these Olympics, the Americans are closing the gap.

Hamlin won Olympic bronze in Sochi. It would not surprise anyone if any of the U.S. women found their way to the podium in Pyeongchang.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 21 NBC 3-5 p.m. — Speedskating: Team Pursuit Gold Medal Finals; Cross Country: Men’s Team Sprint Gold Medal Final 8-11 p.m. — Alpine Skiing: Men’s Slalom, First Run (LIVE); Freestyle Skiing: Men’s Halfpipe Gold Medal Final (LIVE); Bobsled: Women’s Gold Medal Final Runs; Cross Country: Women’s Team Sprint Gold Medal Final 6-9:35 p.m. (MST) — Alpine Skiing: Men’s Slalom, First Run (LIVE); Freestyle Skiing: Men’s Halfpipe Gold Medal Final (LIVE); Bobsled: Women’s Gold Medal Final Runs; Cross Country: Women’s Team Sprint Gold Medal Final 5-8:35 p.m. (PST) — Alpine Skiing: Men’s Slalom, First Run (LIVE); Freestyle Skiing: Men’s Halfpipe Gold Medal Final (LIVE); Bobsled: Women’s Gold Medal Final Runs; Cross Country: Women’s Team Sprint Gold Medal Final 11:35 p.m.-12:30 a.m. — Alpine Skiing: Men’s Slalom Gold Medal Final Run (LIVE) NBCSN 2:40-5 a.m. — Ice Hockey: Men’s Quarterfinal (LIVE) 5-7:10 a.m. — Men’s Curling: United States vs. Britain 7:10-10:45 a.m. — Ice Hockey: Men’s Quarterfinal (LIVE); Bobsled: Women’s Gold Medal Final Runs 10:45-1:30 p.m. — Speedskating: Men’s & Women’s Team Pursuit Gold Medal Finals; Cross Country: Men’s & Women’s Team Sprint Gold Medal Finals 1:30-5 p.m. — Men’s Curling: United States vs. Britain 7-10:45 p.m. — Women’s Curling: Canada vs. Olympic Athletes from Russia 10:45 p.m.-2 a.m. — Hockey: Women’s Gold Medal Game (LIVE) USA 2:30-5 a.m. — Ice Hockey: Women’s Bronze Medal Game (LIVE) 5-7:10 a.m. — Men’s Curling: Sweden vs. Norway 7:10-9:30 a.m. — Ice Hockey: Men’s Quarterfinal (LIVE) CNBC 5-8 p.m. — Women’s Curling: United States vs. Sweden OLYMPIC CHANNEL 5-7 a.m. — Medal Ceremonies (LIVE) THURSDAY, FEB. 22 NBC 3-5 p.m. — Biathlon: Women’s 4x6km Relay Gold Medal Final; Nordic Combined: Men’s Team Large Hill/4x5km Gold Medal Final

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Viewing guide to the XXXIII Olympic Winter Games February 8-25, 2018 - PyeongChang, South Korea

Daily TV Schedule

Frenzel aiming for gold in Nordic Combined event

Events and ceremonies will be broadcast on NBC, NBC Sports Network (NBCSN), USA, CNBC and the Olympic Channel. All broadcast times are Eastern Daylight.

8 p.m.-Midnight — Figure Skating: Ladies’ Gold Medal Final (LIVE); Alpine Skiing: Women’s Combined, Downhill Run (LIVE); Snowboarding: Women’s Big Air Gold Medal Final (LIVE); Short Track Speedskating: Men’s 500, Women’s 1000, Men’s 5000 Relay Gold Medal Finals 5-9:35 p.m. (PST) — Figure Skating: Ladies’ Gold Medal Final (LIVE); Alpine Skiing: Women’s Combined, Downhill Run (LIVE); Snowboarding: Women’s Big Air Gold Medal Final (LIVE); Short Track Speedskating: Men’s 500, Women’s 1000, Men’s 5000 Relay Gold Medal Finals 12:35-2 a.m. — Alpine Skiing: Women’s Combined, Slalom Gold Medal Run (LIVE); Freestyle Skiing: Women’s Ski Cross Gold Medal Final NBCSN 2-5:20 a.m. — Snowboarding: Men’s & Women’s Parallel Giant Slalom; Nordic Combined: Men’s Team Large Hill/4x5km Gold Medal Final; Curling: Men’s & Women’s Tiebreaker 5:20-7:45 a.m. — Biathlon: Women’s 4x6km Relay Gold Medal Final (LIVE); Nordic Combined: Men’s Team Large Hill/4x5km Gold Medal Final (LIVE) 7:45-10:45 a.m. — Short Track Speedskating: Men’s 500, Women’s 1000, Men’s 5000 Relay Gold Medal Finals 10:45 a.m.-1:45 p.m. — Curling: Men’s & Women’s Tiebreaker 1:45-4:45 p.m. — Curling: Men’s Semifinal 7-10 p.m. — Figure Skating: Ladies’ Free Program (LIVE) 10 p.m.-2 a.m. — Curling: Men’s Semifinal; Short Track Speedskating: Men’s 500, Women’s 1000, Men’s 5000 Relay Gold Medal Final CNBC 5-8 p.m. — Curling: Men’s Semifinal OLYMPIC CHANNEL 5-7 a.m. — Medal Ceremonies (LIVE) FRIDAY, FEB. 23 NBC 3-5 p.m. — Biathlon: Men’s 4◊7.5km Relay Gold Medal Final; Figure Skating: Ladies’ Review 8-11 p.m. — Alpine Skiing: Team Event Gold Medal Final (LIVE); Snowboarding: Men’s Big Air Gold Medal Final (LIVE); Four-Man Bobsled; Speedskating: Men’s 1000m Gold Medal Final 6-9:35 p.m. (MST) — Alpine Skiing: Team Event Gold Medal Final (LIVE); Snowboarding: Men’s Big Air Gold Medal Final (LIVE); Four-Man Bobsled; Speedskating: Men’s 1000m Gold Medal Final

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France’s Martin Fourcade is considered a favorite to take home gold in South Korea in the biathlon.

BIATHLON: Fourcade plans to keep medals (AP) — Martin Fourcade regularly gives away his World Cup biathlon medals to fans after races.

But don’t expect France’s star biathlete to give away any bronze, silver or gold hardware that he wins at the Olympics. He’s keeping those for himself.

“I love to give medals to the kids,” Fourcade said.

“It’s something I usually do. ... But I will not give (away) my Olympics medals — the ones I have and the ones I hope to win.”

The 29-year-old has been the sport’s most dominate competitor since the 201112 season, when he won the first of six straight World Cup total score championships. He won two golds and a silver at the Sochi Games in 2014 and remains the No. 1 biathlete in the world.

He already has more medals than any French

Olympian in history and now has a chance to leave South Korea as one of the most decorated athletes at this year’s Winter Games.

WHAT IS IT: Skis and guns — say what? The biathlon combines the strength and speed of crosscountry skiing with the marksmanship of shooting a rifle. Racers ski around a course with .22-caliber small-bore rifles strapped to their back, then stop at various locations and shoot at targets 50 meters away.

Athletes are penalized for misses, so the sport requires poise to settle the nerves following the exertion of energy from skiing. Skiers often train for the event without snow.

WHAT THEY’RE COMPETING FOR: There will be five men’s, five women’s and two mixed biathlon events at the Pyeongchang Games.

(AP) — Five-time World Cup winner and Olympic gold medalist Eric Frenzel will be aiming to continue his dominance of Nordic combined at the Pyeongchang Olympics.

The 29-year-old German won the normal hill event in Sochi and finished 10th in the large hill competition after falling ill. He came back to help Germany win silver in the team event.

The only athlete to win both the normal and large hill events at one Olympics was Finland’s Samppa Lajunen, who achieved the rare feat at the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City. Lajunen claimed a third gold that year as a member of Finland’s 4x5-kilometer team.

Over a 10-year career on the World Cup circuit, Frenzel has 42 individual wins and eight team titles to go with three Olympic medals which also include silver in Sochi and bronze in Vancouver.

He won the World Cup for five consecutive years from 2013 and has five World Championship titles.

TRADITIONAL POWERHOUSE: Nordic combined events have been contested since the first Winter Olympics in 1924. Norway has dominated the sport with 30 medals overall and a total of 13 gold medals.

In Pyeongchang, athletes will contest the 10-kilometer normal hill, the 10-kilometer large hill and the team large hill with a 4x5-kilometer team event.

The sport has been exclusively contested by men at the Olympics since its debut. But that could soon change.

Officials of the International Ski Federation are in discussions to have women contest Nordic combined at the 2022 Olympics in Beijing.

MEDAL FAVORITES: Frenzel’s main competition in Pyeongchang is likely to come from Norwegians Jan Schmid and Joergen Graabak, who won gold in the large hill event in Sochi.

RISING STARS: Johannes Rydzek. The 26-year-old German skier upstaged Frenzel at the Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic test events and won four golds at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti, Finland, a few weeks later.

A month after being crowned world junior champion in Hinterzarten, Germany, in January of 2010, Rydzek made his Olympic debut in Vancouver and finished on the podium, helping the German quartet win bronze in the team event.

COMEBACK BID: France’s Jason Lamy Chappuis, the Vancouver 2010 men’s individual normal hill-10K champion, retired after the Sochi Games to train as an airline pilot but is making a comeback at the age of 31 and plans to compete at Pyeongchang.

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Viewing guide to the XXXIII Olympic Winter Games February 8-25, 2018 - PyeongChang, South Korea

Bjoergen looks for cross country dominance (AP) — Marit Bjoergen is heading to the Winter Games in South Korea looking for a three-peat of her threepeat.

Bjoergen, the most successful women’s cross-country skier in history, has won three gold medals in each of the past two Winter Games and will be looking to make it three in a row when the Pyeongchang Olympics begin Feb. 9.

Bjoergen has won 10 medals overall, tied with Raisa Smetanina and Stefania Belmondo as the most decorated female Winter Olympian ever.

Behind Bjoergen, Norway won 11 medals overall in cross-country at the Sochi Games in 2014 — including five gold — to tie the country’s record.

The Norwegian team once again looks like the team to beat despite losing one of its top athletes to a doping ban.

“They are the traditional powerhouse in our sport,” said Jeff Ellis with the International Ski Federation. “They know how to get ready on time for the Olympics, which is a big deal. They are one of those nations.”

Things to know about the sport entering the Pyeongchang Olympics : WHAT IS IT: Cross-country skiing is a competition where skiers rely on their own locomotion to move themselves across snow-covered terrain — some flat, some hilly — wearing skinny skies and with the aid of poles.

Cross-country skiing has been an event at the Winter Olympic Games since their inception in 1924 in Chamonix, France.

WHAT THEY’RE COMPETING FOR: There are six men’s and six women’s cross-country events at this year’s Winter Games. The men compete in the 15-kilometer classic, 30-kilometer skiathlon, sprint free, team sprint, 50-kilometer mass free start and 4x10 kilometer relay. The women compete in the 10-kilometer classic, 15-kilometer skiathlon, sprint

Daily TV Schedule

Events and ceremonies will be broadcast on NBC, NBC Sports Network (NBCSN), USA, CNBC and the Olympic Channel. Broadcast times are Eastern Daylight unless noted.

Norway’s Marit Bjoergen arrives at the finish area to win the women’s cross country 4x5 km relay classic free competition. Bjoergen has won three gold medals in each of the last two Winter Games. free, team sprint, 30-kilometer mass Kalla fought back from 25 seconds down on the final leg to win the gold start and 4x5 kilometer relay.

MEDAL FAVORITES: Dario medal for the Swedish team. Surely, Cologna from Switzerland is consid- Finnish and German skiers haven’t forered one of the favorites to bring home gotten their epic meltdown on the final some hardware after winning gold leg and will be looking for a bit of medals in the 15-kilometer classic and revenge.

RISING STARS: Norway’s the 30-kilometer skiathlon in Sochi four years ago. The 31-year-old Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo is one of the Cologna, known as “Super Dario,” rising stars of men’s cross-country skipassed Sweden’s Marcus Hellner on ing. Just 21, he won seven of nine the final climb and went on to win a World Cup races before Christmas and tightly contested 30-kilometer is expected to be a threat in skiathlon. Cologna remains at the top Pyeongchang. For the women, Kalla of his game, winning his fourth Tour was atop the World Cup leaderboard de Ski Championship to start the new before Christmas before taking time year. On the women’s side, Bjoergen off — as many of the top Olympians could be challenged for gold by team- do — to begin focusing on South mates Heidi Weng and Ingvild Korea.

AMERICAN HOPEFUL: The Flugstad and Sweden’s Charlotte Kalla Americans don’t have a great history in the 15-kilometer skiathlon.

BEST MATCHUPS: Expect some with cross-country skiing — they have fireworks in the women’s 4x5 kilome- only won one Olympic medal in the ter relay following an edge-of-your- sport’s history — but Jessie Diggins seat finish in 2014 in which Charlotte might be the country’s best hope.

5-8:35 p.m. (PST) — Alpine Skiing: Team Event Gold Medal Final (LIVE); Snowboarding: Men’s Big Air Gold Medal Final (LIVE); FourMan Bobsled; Speedskating: Men’s 1000m Gold Medal Final 11:35 p.m.-1 a.m. — Snowboarding: Men’s & Women’s Parallel Giant Slalom Gold Medal Finals NBCSN 2-5 a.m. — Ice Hockey: Men’s Semifinal (LIVE) 5-6:30 a.m. — Speedskating: Men’s 1000m Gold Medal Final (LIVE) 6:30-9:30 a.m. — Ice Hockey: Men’s Semifinal (LIVE) 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. — Men’s Curling: Bronze Medal Match 12:30-4 p.m. — Curling: Women’s Semifinal 8 p.m.-Midnight — Biathlon: Men’s 4◊7.5km Relay Gold Medal Final; Curling: Women’s Semifinal (replay) Midnight-3 a.m. — Cross Country: Men’s 50km Gold Medal Final (LIVE) CNBC 5-8 p.m. — Curling: Women’s Semifinal OLYMPIC CHANNEL 5-7 a.m. — Medal Ceremonies (LIVE) SATURDAY, FEB. 24 NBC 3-6 p.m. — Speedskating: Men’s and Women’s Mass Start Gold Medal Finals; Cross Country: Men’s 50km Gold Medal Final 8-11 p.m. — Figure Skating Gala (LIVE); Bobsled: Four Man Gold Medal Final Runs (LIVE) NBCSN 3-6:30 a.m. — Curling: Men’s Gold Medal Final 6:30-9:30 a.m. — Ice Hockey: Men’s Bronze Medal Game (LIVE) 9:30-11 a.m. — Speedskating: Men’s and Women’s Mass Start Gold Medal Finals 11 a.m.-2 p.m. — Curling: Women’s Bronze Medal Match 4-7 p.m. — Curling: Men’s Gold Medal Final (replay) 7-10:30 p.m. — Curling: Women’s Gold Medal Final (LIVE) 10:30 p.m.-2 a.m. — Hockey: Men’s Gold Medal Game (LIVE) OLYMPIC CHANNEL 5-7 a.m. — Medal Ceremonies (LIVE) SUNDAY, FEB. 25 NBC 3-6 p.m. — Cross Country: Women’s 30km Gold Medal Final 8-10:30 p.m. — Closing Ceremony NBCSN 2-4 a.m. — Cross Country: Women’s 30km Gold Medal Final

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