Winter Olympics 2022 Viewing Guide

A viewing guide to the XXIV Olympic Winter Games

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Viewing guide to the XXIV Olympic Winter Games February WINTER 4 through February 20, 2022 — Beijing, China OLYMPICS February 2022

The 2022 Olympics motto “represents the power of the The 2022 Olympics motto Games to overcome global “represents the power of the challenges as a communiGames to overcome global challenges as a community, with a shared future for ty, with a shared future for humankind.” humankind.”

Clap, Don’t Chant: China Seeks ‘Zero COVID’ Games

(AP) — Athletes will need to be vaced Olympic areas without completing a (AP) — need to be vacOlympic areas without completing a cinated — Athletes or face awill long quarantine — ed 21-day quarantine. cinated — or face a long quarantine — 21-day take tests daily and wear masks when not Uponquarantine. arrival at the airport in Beijing, competing or training.

Clapping is OK to participants will their temperatures take tests daily and wear masks when not Upon arrival athave the airport in Beijing, cheer on teammates, chanting.

Anytaken and be tested with throat and nasal competing or training. not Clapping is OK to participants will have their temperatures one who tests positive for COVID-19 swabs. A bus will then take people to their cheer on teammates, not chanting.

Anytaken and be tested with throat and nasal will be sent into isolation. designated lodging, where they’ll wait up oneWelcome who teststo positive for COVID-19 A bus for willtest thenresults take people to their the Beijing Olympics, swabs. to six hours to clear them where strictinto containment to move about in approved areas. wait up will be sent isolation. measures will designated lodging, where they’ll aim to createtoa virus-proof “bubble” for to six Throat swabs forresults testing will reWelcome the Beijing Olympics, hours for test to clearbe them those few spectators allowed into venues quired daily for all participants. In Towhere strict containment measures will to move about in approved areas. and the athletes themselves. kyo, participants spit into vials for antiaimThe to prevention create a virus-proof for Throat protocols “bubble” will be simigen tests. swabs for testing will be relar to those at the Tokyo Games this sumMasks thatfor are all N95 or of a similar calthose few spectators allowed into venues quired daily participants.

In Tomer, but much tighter. iber participants will also be spit required in indoor and and the athletes themselves. kyo, into vials for antiHere’s how the Games will work. outdoor areas The prevention protocols will be simiDo athletes have to be vaccinated?

Yes, gen Iftests. an athlete or other participant tests lar to those the Tokyo Games this sumMasks that N95 orhave of a similar caland other at participants including team positive but are doesn’t symptoms, staff but and news media need to be fully iber they’ll need gorequired into isolation in a dedmer, much tighter. will alsotobe in indoor and vaccinated to the be allowed in the designat- outdoor icated hotel.

Here’s how Games will work. areas People with no symptoms Do athletes have to be vaccinated? Yes, If an athlete or other participant tests and other participants including team TABLE positive OF but CONTENTS doesn’t have symptoms, staff and news media need to be fully they’ll need to go into isolation in a dedvaccinated to be allowed in the designat- icated hotel. People with no symptoms

Televised Events ..... 3-15 Figure Skating ............ 3 Short Track................ 4 Speedskating ............. 5

can leave isolation after two days of negcan leave isolation after two days of negative tests. ative tests. who test positive and have Those symptoms havetest to go into isolation in a Those who positive and have hospital. They’ll also two days symptoms have to go need into to isolation in of a negative tests to be let loose. hospital.

They’ll also need to two days of Even if some fans are allowed in Beinegative tests to be letwill loose. jing, their presence be muted. Everyone is some being fans asked clap instead of Even if aretoallowed in Beishouting orpresence singing, will as had been the plan jing, their be muted.

Evin Tokyo. eryone is being asked of Organizers may still to beclap able instead to pull off shouting or singing, asas had beendisruption the plan the Olympics without much asTokyo. some fear. in Olympic athletes arebe highly motivated Organizers may still able to pull off to avoid infection so they can compete, the Olympics without as much disruption noted Dr. Sandro Galea, a public health as someatfear. expert Boston University. And even if it’s harder with omicron, he noted it’s no Olympic athletes are highly motivated mystery people do. to avoid what infection so need they to can compete, noted Dr. Sandro Galea, a public health expert at Boston University. And even if it’s harder with omicron, he noted it’s no mystery what people need to do.

Curling ..................... 6 Skeleton .................

Alpine Skiing ............. 7 Luge......................

TABLE OF CONTENTS Ice Hockey ................

8 Ski Jumping ............

Bobsled .................... 9 Snowboarding ..........

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Televised Events ..... 3-15 Figure Skating ............ 3 Short Track................ 4 Speedskating ............. 5

Curling ..................... 6 Alpine Skiing ............. 7 Ice Hockey ................ 8 Bobsled .................... 9

Skeleton ................. 10 Nordic Combined ...... 14 Luge...................... 11 Cross Country........... 15 Ski Jumping ............ 12 Freestyle Skiing ........ 15 Snowboarding ..........

Biathlon .................

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Chen Eyes Elusive Figure Skating Gold Daily TV Schedule

(AP) — Nathan Chen has accomplished just about everything in the sport of figure skating.

Six consecutive national championships, the most since two-time Olympic champion Dick Button in the 1940s and ‘50s.

Three consecutive world championships, the best run by an American since Scott Hamilton in the early ‘80s.

Nearly four years with only a single defeat, a run that includes three consecutive wins at the Grand Prix Final.

The only thing he’s yet to accomplish? Winning Olympic gold.

The 22-year-old Chen blew his chance four years ago in Pyeongchang, when an unusually poor short program cost him a chance at a medal; he rallied to finish fifth. But he’s about to get another shot in Beijing, when Chen goes toe-to-toe with two-time defending gold medalist Yuzuru Hanyu and a stacked field at historic Capital Indoor Stadium.

“Every season my goal is to keep improving,” Chen said. “I’m looking forward to going back and working on whatever goals I have for the Games. I’m just enjoying this moment.”

The showdown between Chen and Hanyu will be the highlight of the entire Olympic program.

The American comes armed with an array of quadruple jumps that rival anyone in the world, while his artistry takes him beyond being just an athlete to being a bona fide performer. The biggest question surrounding Chen is what programs he’ll unveil in Beijing.

“I’m really happy with these programs,” Chen said, giving credit to choreographer Shae-Lynn Bourne, “and that’s why it’s awesome to be able to have such amazing choreographers consistently deliver great programs for me, so it’s easy to be able to go back and look through all the work she’s done with me.”

Hanyu withdrew from both of his Grand Prix assignments because an injured right ankle, but he dazzled last month in winning the Japanese championship. His

Events and ceremonies will be broadcast on NBC, USA, and CNBC. All broadcast times are Eastern Daylight unless noted.

key to victory could rest in becoming the first skater ever to land the quadruple axel.

Others to watch in the men’s competition include Shoma Uno, the reigning Olympic silver medalist who won the NHK Trophy last fall; Vincent Zhou, the American who beat Chen at Skate America; and the Russian star Mikhail Kolyada, who finished second at his two Grand Prix assignments this season.

WOMEN’S COMPETITION It’s almost a foregone conclusion that the gold medal will be headed to Russia for a third straight Winter Games. The only question is whether it will be around the neck of world record-holder Kamila Valieva. Valieva’s score of 272.71 points at Rostelecom Cup was more than 35 points higher than anyone else. The Russians’ biggest competition will come from Japan’s Kaori Sakamoto. But keep an eye on 17-year-old Alysa Liu, who withdrew from U.S. nationals after a COVID-19 positive but whose jumping ability gives her a chance at the medal stand.

PAIRS COMPETITION The U.S. only qualified one pairs for the 2018 Winter Games: Alexa Knierim and Chris Knierim.

The Americans have two headed to Beijing, and one of them is Alexa Knierim and new partner Brandon Frazier; they teamed up after Chris Knierim’s retirement. The other is Ashley Cain-Gribble and Timothy LeDuc, the first non-binary Olympic athlete.

They’re unlikely to compete for medals, though.

Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov of Russia are the heavy favorites.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4 NBC 6:30 a.m. - 9 a.m. — Opening Ceremony (LIVE) Noon - 3 p.m. — Olympics Preview Show 8 p.m. - 11 p.m. — Opening Ceremony USA 2 p.m. - 8 p.m. — Figure Skating - Men’s Short Program Team Event, Figure Skating - Rhythm Dance Team Event, Figure Skating - Pairs’ Short Program Team Event, Mixed Doubles Curling - U.S. vs. Sweden, 8 p.m. - 10 p.m. — Mixed Doubles Curling - Switzerland vs. Sweden (LIVE) 10 p.m. - 11:50 p.m. — Women’s Snowboard Slopestyle Qualifying (LIVE) 11:50 p.m. - 1:30 a.m. — Women’s Ice Hockey - Canada vs. Finland (LIVE) 1:30 a.m. - 2:25 a.m. — Men’s Ski Jumping - Individual Normal Hill Qualifying (LIVE) SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5 CNBC 4 p.m. - 8 p.m. — Mixed Doubles Curling - U.S. vs.

China Mixed Doubles Curling - U.S. vs. Canada 8 p.m. - 10 p.m. — Mixed Doubles Curling - U.S. vs.

Czech Republic (LIVE) NBC 2 p.m. - 6 p.m. — Women’s Speed Skating - 3000m, Men’s Luge - First & Second Runs, Women’s CrossCountry Skiing - Skiathlon, Men’s Freestyle Skiing Moguls Qualifying, Women’s Ski Jumping - Normal Hill Final 8 p.m. - 11:30 p.m. — Figure Skating - Team Event (LIVE), Women’s Short Program, Men’s Free Skate, Men’s Alpine Skiing - Downhill Run (LIVE), Short Track - Mixed Relay Final 12 a.m. - 1:30 a.m. — Women’s Snowboard - Slopestyle Final, Men’s Freestyle Skiing - Moguls Final USA CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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Daily TV Schedule Mixed Relay Debuts in Short Track Skating

2:45 a.m. - 7:55 a.m. — Men’s Freestyle Skiing Moguls Final (LIVE), Men’s Freestyle Skiing - Moguls Qualifying (LIVE), Women’s Speed Skating - 3000m (LIVE), Women’s Cross-Country Skiing - Skiathlon (LIVE), Men’s Ski Jumping - Individual Normal Hill Qualifying 8:10 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. — Women’s Ice Hockey - U.S. vs. Russian Olympic Committee (LIVE) 10:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. — Short Track - Mixed Relay Final, Short Track - Women’s 500m Qualifying, Short Track Men’s 1000m Qualifying, Men’s Luge - First & Second Runs, Biathlon - Mixed Relay, Women’s Ski Jumping Normal Hill Final 5 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. — Women’s Ice Hockey - U.S. vs.

Russian Olympic Committee 7:30 p.m. - 2 a.m. — Women’s Snowboard - Slopestyle Final (LIVE), Men’s Snowboard - Slopestyle Qualifying (LIVE), Men’s Luge - First & Second Runs, Biathlon Mixed Relay SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6 NBC 2 p.m. - 6 p.m. — Men’s Speed Skating - 5000m, Men’s Cross-Country Skiing - Skiathlon, Men’s Ski Jumping Normal Hill Final 7 p.m. - 11:30 p.m. — Figure Skating - Team Event (LIVE) Pairs’ Free Skate, Free Dance, Women’s Free Skate, Women’s Alpine Skiing - Giant Slalom First Run (LIVE), Women’s Freestyle Skiing, Big Air Qualifying (LIVE), Moguls Final, Men’s Luge - Third & Final Runs 12 a.m. - 2 a.m. — Women’s Alpine Skiing - Giant Slalom Final Run (LIVE), Men’s Snowboard - Slopestyle Final USA 2 a.m. - 6:30 a.m. — Men’s Cross-Country Skiing Skiathlon (LIVE), Men’s Speed Skating - 5000m (LIVE), Mixed Doubles Curling - Norway vs. Sweden, Women’s Freestyle Skiing - Moguls Qualifying 6:30 a.m. - 7:55 a.m. — Women’s Freestyle Skiing Moguls Final (LIVE) 8:10 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. — Women’s Ice Hockey - U.S. vs. Switzerland (LIVE) 10:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. — Mixed Doubles Curling - U.S. vs.

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From left, Maame Biney, Kristen Santos, Corinne Stoddard and Julie Letai compete in the women’s 500meter finals during the U.S. Olympic short track speedskating trials.

(AP) — Short track speedskating is already thrilling with its high-speed crashes and elbows flying.

Now, there’s a new event adding to the chaos with its Olympic debut in Beijing.

The 2,000-meter mixed team relay features a maximum of 12 teams with four skaters each — two men and two women — battling it out over 18 laps to reach the podium. Each skater races twice in this order: woman, woman, man, man, woman, woman, man, man. Explosive starts and maximum speed will be on display.

The six days of short track begin Feb. 5 with the mixed team relay final.

MIXED TEAM RELAY China is ranked No. 1 in the world and set the world record at a test event in Beijing in October, making the Chinese the gold-medal favorite on home ice. The Netherlands, Hungary and the Russian Olympic Committee are in medals mix, too.

INDIVIDUAL EVENTS On the men’s side, China, South Korea and Canada have strong medal contenders in the 500, 1,000 and 1,500. Ren Ziwei of China could make the podium in the 500 and 1,500. Sjinkie Knegt of the Netherlands returns for his fourth Olympics at age 32 with a shot to medal in the 1,500. Born to a Chinese father and Hungarian mother, Liu

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Shaolin of Hungary is a contender in the 500. In the women’s events, eight-time Olympic medalist Arianna Fontana of Italy is the defending champion in the 500. She’s tied with Apolo Ohno and Viktor Ahn for most Olympic short track medals. Suzanne Schulting is a rare Dutch short tracker; most skaters in her country are known for their success in long track. She will be a favorite in the 500 and 1,500.

U.S. CHANCES It’s been 12 years since Ohno skated in the last of his three games, becoming the most decorated American Winter Olympian with eight career medals. While his legacy burns bright, the U.S. is a long shot at these games.

Kristen Santos is the lone American skater ranked in the world’s top 10 in any event. She represents the best chance for the women to win their first medal since 2010, ranking second in the world in the 1,000 and fourth in the 1,500.

The only returning Olympian is Maame Biney, born in Ghana and raised in Virginia. Four years ago, she became the first Black woman to make the U.S. short track Olympic team. She finished 14th in the 500 and 31st in the 1,500 in Pyeongchang.

The U.S. men have won at least one medal at the last five Olympics, but failed to qualify a relay team for the first time since 1992.

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Viewing guide to the XXIV Olympic Winter Games February through February February 20, 20, 2022 2022 — — Beijing, Beijing, China China February 44 through

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UpJapan to 24 has skaters race contenders 16 laps, with medal on intermediate the men’s sprints thrown in.

Skaters from the same countries and women’s side, including sprinters Wataru sometimes work together to thwart the competition.

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The most successful sport Speedskating begins U.S. Feb. Winter 5 withOlympic the women’s

3,000 meters at the Ice Ribbon. It’s the only newly built arena in the Olympic Park located on the former archery and field hockey fields used in the 2008 games. Formally known as the National Speed Skating Oval, the exterior features 22 ribbon-like light strands flowing around it. After the games, it will open to the general public.

U.S. CHANCES The most successful U.S. Winter Olympic sport

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Stolz won Atwere 49, Claudia Pechstein of Germany willthe be500 the oldest woman to trials compete at ahis Winter Olympics and 1,000 at the to earn spot. Four-time and the second athlete and coached only woman to Olympic medalist Shani— Davis Stolz — when compete in eight. She qualified in the mass start. he was 14. includes “He’s given a lot of medals advice just Her career ninemeOlympic and toa stay relaxed and focus on the technique,” Stolz said. two-year doping ban, which she continues to fight in court. Pechstein tie Japanese jumper “Everything I’ve donewill wrong he’s done ski before.”

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two-year doping ban, which she continues to fight in court. Pechstein will tie Japanese ski jumper Noriaki Kasai for participating in the most Games.

SO LONG SVEN Sven Kramer of the Netherlands skates in his fifth and final games. The 35-year-old is a ninetime Olympic medalist and the defending champion in the 5k, the only male speedskater to win the same event three times.

Daily Daily TV TV Schedule Schedule

Switzerland, Mixed Doubles Curling - Italy vs. Sweden, Men’s Luge -Mixed Third Doubles & Final Runs, Switzerland, CurlingMen’s - ItalySkivs.Jumping Sweden,Normal Hill Final - Third Runs, Ice Men’s Ski Jumping Women’s Hockey - U.S. vs.5Men’s p.m.Luge - 7:30 p.m. & —Final Normal Hill Final Switzerland Hockey - U.S. vs.

5 p.m.

- 7:30 Women’sIce Alpine Skiing - Giant 7:30 p.m.

- 11p.m. p.m.— —Women’s Slalom First Run (LIVE), Women’s Freestyle Skiing - Big Switzerland Air Cross-Country Women’s Alpine SkiingSkiing - Giant7:30Qualifying p.m. - 11 (LIVE), p.m. —Men’s Skiathlon, Men’s Ski Jumping - Normal Hill Final Slalom Runa.m.

(LIVE), Skiing - Big Women’s Freestyle Ice Hockey - Canada 11 p.m.First - 1:30 — Women’s Air Russian Qualifying (LIVE), Men’s Cross-Country Skiing vs.

Olympic Committee (LIVE) Freestyle 1:30 a.m. Men’s - 2:45Ski a.m.

— Men’s Skiathlon, Jumping - Normal Hill Skiing Final - Big Air Qualifying 11 p.m.

- 1:30(LIVE) a.m. — Women’s Ice Hockey - Canada

vs. Russian Olympic Committee (LIVE)7 MONDAY, FEBRUARY Men’s Freestyle Skiing - Big 1:30 a.m. - 2:45 a.m. —CNBC 5Airp.m.

- 7 p.m.

— Mixed Doubles Curling - Semifinals Qualifying (LIVE)

8 p.m. - 10 p.m. — Mixed Doubles Curling - Semifinals NBC FEBRUARY 2 p.m. - 5 p.m. MONDAY, — Women’s Biathlon - 715km Individual, CNBC Mixed Team Ski Jumping - Normal Hill Men’sCurling Figure- Semifinals Skating 85 p.m. p.m.- 7- p.m.

12:30— a.m.

Mixed— Doubles Short Men’s AlpineCurling Skiing- Semifinals - Super G 8 p.m.Program - 10 p.m.(LIVE), — Mixed Doubles (LIVE), Women’s FreestyleNBC Skiing - Big Air Final (LIVE), Women’s Short Track - 500m Final, Women’s Speed 2 p.m. --51500m p.m. — Women’s Biathlon - 15km Individual, Skating Mixeda.m.

Team Jumping - Normal Hill - 1000m Final, 1:05 - 2Ski a.m.

— Men’s Short Track Women’s Luge First & Second Runs 8 p.m. - 12:30 a.m. — Men’s Figure Skating USA Alpine Skiing - Super G Short Program (LIVE), Men’s 2:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. — Men’s Short Track - 1000m (LIVE), Women’s Freestyle Skiing(LIVE), - Big Air Final (LIVE), Quarterfinal & Semifinal & Final Women’s Short Women’s ShortQuarterfinal Track - 500m Final, Women’s Speed Track - 500m & Semifinal & Final (LIVE), Women’s Speed Skating - 1500m (LIVE), Women’s Skating - 1500m Luge - Second Run— (LIVE), Luge - First Final, Run, 1:05 a.m.

2 a.m.

Men’sWomen’s Short Track - 1000m Men’s Snowboard - Slopestyle Final, Mixed Doubles Women’s- Luge First & Second Curling U.S. -vs.

Great Britain,Runs Women’s Biathlon USASki Jumping - Normal Hill 15km Individual, Mixed Team Mixed 12:30 p.m.- 12:30 - 8:15p.m. p.m.

Men’s ShortDoubles Track - Curling 1000m 2:45 a.m.

—— -Quarterfinal Semifinals,& Women’s SkatingWomen’s - 1500m,Short Ice Semifinal &Speed Final (LIVE), Hockey Track - 500m SemifinalRuns, & Final (LIVE), Women’s LugeQuarterfinal - First && Second Women’s Women’s- 15km SpeedIndividual Skating - 1500m (LIVE), Women’s Biathlon 8:15 - 10:45 — Men’s Figure Skating Luge p.m.

- Second Runp.m.

(LIVE), Women’s Luge - First- Short Run, Program (LIVE), - Slopestyle Final, Mixed Doubles Men’s Snowboard

Curling - U.S. vs.

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Daily TV Schedule Shuster Confident Heading Into Olympics

10:45 p.m. - 11:10 p.m. — Women’s Ice Hockey Pregame Show 11:10 p.m. - 1:30 a.m. — Women’s Ice Hockey - U.S. vs. Canada (LIVE) 1:30 a.m. - 2:50 a.m. — Snowboard - Parallel Giant Slalom Finals (LIVE) TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8 CNBC 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. — Mixed Doubles Curling - Bronze Medal Game 8 p.m. - 10 p.m. — Mixed Doubles Curling - Gold Medal Game NBC 2 p.m. - 5 p.m. — Men’s Biathlon - 20km Individual, Women’s Luge - Third & Final Runs, Men’s & Women’s Cross-Country Skiing - Individual Sprint Finals 8 p.m. - 11 p.m. — Women’s Alpine Skiing - Slalom First Run (LIVE), Women’s Snowboard - Halfpipe Qualifying (LIVE), Men’s Freestyle Skiing - Big Air Final (LIVE), Men’s Speed Skating - 1500m 11:35 p.m. - 2 a.m. — Women’s Alpine Skiing Slalom Final Run (LIVE), Men’s Snowboard - Halfpipe Qualifying (LIVE), ,Women’s Snowboard - Snowboard Cross Qualifying USA 3 a.m. - 9:20 a.m. — Men’s & Women’s Cross-Country Skiing (LIVE), Individual Sprint Qualifying, Individual Sprint Finals, Men’s Biathlon - 20km Individual (LIVE), Women’s Luge Final Run (LIVE) 9:20 a.m. - 3 p.m. — Mixed Doubles Curling - Bronze Medal Game, Men’s Speed Skating - 1500m, Snowboard - Parallel Giant Slalom Finals, Men’s Biathlon - 20km Individual 5 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. — Women’s Ice Hockey - U.S. vs.

Canada 7:30 p.m. - 2:55 a.m. — Women’s Snowboard (LIVE), Halfpipe Qualifying, Snowboard Cross Final, Snowboard Cross Qualifying, Men’s Speed Skating - 1500m, Men’s & Women’s Cross-Country Skiing - Individual Sprint Finals WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9 CNBC 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. — Men’s Curling - U.S. vs. Russian CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

(AP) — John Shuster won’t be catching anyone by surprise at these Olympics.

The five-time Olympian is back to defend his curling gold medal in Beijing, and the target on his back will be almost as big as the one on the ice. Four years after surviving five straight elimination matches to win it all in Pyeongchang the Americans are among the favorites to medal again.

“I definitely feel less pressure,” Shuster said after his victory in the U.S. curling trials. “The success last time for me, winning an Olympic gold, is the top of the mountain. And no matter how you finish in the other Olympics, it doesn’t matter.

“I think I feel less pressure,” he said, “but I think I have supreme confidence.”

Shuster won bronze in 2006 as the lead for Pete Fenson’s team — the first-ever U.S. Olympic curling medal. Then he left to form his own rink, earning a trip to Vancouver but performing so badly that he benched himself.

After finishing 10th in 2010 — dead last — Shuster won the U.S. trials again four years later but managed just a ninth place in Sochi. When USA Curling put together a high performance camp of the country’s top 10 players, Shuster didn’t make the cut.

So the most decorated Olympian in American curling history scraped together a foursome — calling themselves “Team Rejects” — and not only beat the federation-backed squads in the U.S. trials but won gold in Korea.

BABY BUMP Tabitha Peterson is heading to her second straight Olympics — her first as the skip of the U.S. women’s team. Peterson threw third for Nina Roth’s team in Pyeongchang.

When Roth took maternity leave the following season, Peterson moved up to skip, the team captain who not only throws the last and most important stones but is also the final word on strategy throughout the match.

“It definitely is different, just in terms of my role on the team,” Peterson said. “I’ve had to kind of rethink the way I think the

game, my role, my approach, my preparation. (And) what I do off the ice — there’s more strategic learning.”

Roth is back at vice-skip, throwing third, with fellow 2018 holdover Becca Hamilton second.

Olympic rookie Tara Peterson, Tabitha’s sister, is the lead, throwing first.

DOUBLE DUTY A handful of curlers will be among the busiest athletes at the Olympics. Plys will compete in the mixed doubles event with partner Vicky Persinger before turning his attention to the men’s tournament — meaning he could be on the ice for 18 days in a row, sometimes two sessions per day.

Others doing double duty are Britain’s Jennifer Dodds and Bruce Mouat, Italy’s Amos Mosanser and Sweden’s Oskar Eriksson.

BACK FOR MORE It’s not just Shuster’s squad that is trying to repeat. All of the medal-winning teams from Pyeongchang are back for another try, with some minor shuffling in the lineups. In the men’s field, Sochi b r o n z e medalist and Pyeongchang runner-up Niklas Edin is back to complete his set of Olympic prizes. The Swiss team skippered by Benoît Schwarz that won bronze in 2018 is back.

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United States’ Mikaela Shiffrin competes during the first run of an alpine ski, World Cup women’s slalom in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia.

All Eyes on Mikaela Shiffrin in Alpine Run (AP) — After her first Winter Games triumph as a teenager in 2014, Mikaela Shiffrin gushed about “dreaming of the next Olympics (and) winning five gold medals” — which not only didn’t happen, of course, but wasn’t even possible because the American ended up not competing in every Alpine event four years later.

Now a veteran of 26, Shiffrin aims to be in the starting gate at the Beijing Olympics for the slalom, giant slalom, super-G, downhill and combined. She knows, though, that just entering everything will be a challenge in itself, let alone claiming a haul of medals to add to the two golds and one silver she has from past Olympics, which go along with a half-dozen world championship golds and a trio of World Cup overall titles.

“I have to do a lot more preparation, like, mentally — just understanding how that is going to affect me mentally and physi-

cally throughout, essentially, the three weeks that we’re there,” said Shiffrin.

Shiffrin, who is from Colorado, frequently talks about what it will take to avoid feeling uncomfortable on, or even between, race days. There is a lot wrapped up in that area as she heads to her third Olympics, from the back spasms that limited her preparation in November, to the bout with COVID-19 she experienced in late December, to her first “did not finish” in a slalom in four years that came in January, to the many stress factors she sounds at ease discussing and dissecting.

SURPRISE! Usually, test events are held on an Olympic hill a year or more ahead of time, giving ski racers a chance to check out the site and train and compete on the course.

Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, those were scrapped.

THE FAVORITES

If the casual fan knows current World Cup overall leader Shiffrin’s name the best, anyone who follows ski racing closely is aware of two prominent challengers: Petra Vlhova, a 26-year-old from Slovakia, and Sofia Goggia, a 29-year-old from Italy.

MEN TO WATCH Marco Odermatt, a 24-yearold from Switzerland, will head to his first Olympics as a potential star-in-the-making. Second in the overall is 2019-20 champion Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, a 29-year-old from Norway.

BYE, LINDSEY AND LIGETY The U.S. ski team is now without three-time Olympic medalist Lindsey Vonn and double gold medalist Ted Ligety.

Shiffrin is not the only American worth watching, though. Breezy Johnson has three second-place appearances behind Goggia in downhills this season.

Olympic Committee 8 p.m. - 11 p.m. — Women’s Curling - U.S. vs. Russian Olympic Committee (LIVE) 11 p.m. - 1:30 a.m. — Men’s Ice Hockey - Sweden vs.

Latvia (LIVE) NBC 2 p.m. - 5 p.m. — Women’s Alpine Skiing - Slalom Final Run, Women’s Snowboard - Snowboard Cross Final, Doubles Luge - First & Final Runs, Men’s Nordic Combined Skiing - Individual Normal Hill & 10km 8 p.m. - 12:30 a.m. — Women’s Snowboard - Halfpipe Final (LIVE), Men’s Figure Skating - Free Skate (LIVE), Men’s Alpine Skiing - Combined, Downhill Run, Men’s Short Track - 1500m Final 1:05 a.m. - 2 a.m. — Men’s Alpine Skiing - Combined, Slalom Run (LIVE) USA 3 a.m. - 3:50 a.m. — Men’s Nordic Combined Skiing Individual Normal Hill (LIVE) 3:50 a.m. - 6 a.m. — Men’s Ice Hockey - Russian Olympic Committee vs. Switzerland (LIVE) 6 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. — Women’s Short Track (LIVE), 1000m Qualifying, Men’s Short Track - 1500m Quarterfinals & Semifinals & Final (LIVE) 8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. — Men’s Ice Hockey - Czech Republic vs. Denmark (LIVE) 10:30 a.m. - 2:45 p.m. — Men’s Curling - China vs.

Sweden, Doubles Luge - First & Final Runs, Men’s Nordic Combined Skiing - Individual 10km 4:45 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. — Ice Hockey, Men’s Nordic Combined Skiing - Individual 10km, Men’s Nordic Combined Skiing - Individual Normal Hill 8:30 p.m. - 10:20 p.m. — Men’s Figure Skating - Free Skate (LIVE) 10:20 p.m. - 2:25 a.m. — Men’s Snowboard (LIVE), Snowboard Cross Final, Snowboard Cross Qualifying, Doubles Luge - First & Final Runs, Men’s Skeleton - First & Second Runs THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10 CNBC 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. — Women’s Curling - U.S. vs. Denmark 8 p.m. - 11 p.m. — Men’s Curling - U.S. vs. Great Britain (LIVE) CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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No No NHL NHL Boosts Boosts Russian Russian Hopes Hopes For For Olympic Olympic Gold Gold inin Hockey Hockey

11 p.m. - 1:30 a.m. — Men’s Ice Hockey - Denmark vs.

11 p.m. Olympic - 1:30 a.m.

— Men’s(LIVE) Ice Hockey - Denmark vs.

Russian Committee Russian Olympic Committee (LIVE) NBC 2 p.m. - 5 p.m. — Men’s Snowboard - Snowboard Cross NBC Final, Women’s Cross-Country Skiing TeamCross Luge 28 p.m.

- 5 p.m. — Men’s Snowboard - 10km, Snowboard p.m. - 11 p.m. — Women’s Alpine Skiing - Super G Final, Cross-Country Skiing Final - 10km, TeamMixed Luge (LIVE),Women’s Men’s Snowboard - Halfpipe (LIVE), 8Team p.m.Freestyle - 11 p.m.

— Women’s Alpine Skiing - Super G Skiing - Aerials Final 11:35 p.m.

12:30 a.m.- Halfpipe — Women’s Ice Hockey (LIVE), Men’s- Snowboard Final (LIVE), MixedQuarterfinal (LIVE), Women’s Skeleton First Run and Team Freestyle Skiing Aerials Final Second Run 11:35 p.m. - 12:30 a.m.USA — Women’s Ice Hockey Quarterfinal (LIVE), Skeleton First RunSkiing and 2:25 a.m. - 3:30 a.m.Women’s — Women’s Cross-Country - 10km (LIVE) Second Run 3:40 a.m. - 6 a.m. — Men’s USA Ice Hockey - Finland vs.

Slovakia (LIVE) 2:25 a.m.

3:30— a.m.

— Women’s Cross-Country Skiing 6 a.m.

- 8 -a.m.

Mixed Team Freestyle Skiing - Aerials -Final 10km (LIVE)Women’s Cross-Country Skiing - 10km (LIVE), 8 a.m.

- 10:30 vs. China 3:40 a.m.

- 6 a.m. a.m. — —Men’s Men’sIceIceHockey Hockey- U.S. - Finland vs.

(LIVE) Slovakia (LIVE) 10:30 a.m. - 2:45 p.m. — Men’s Curling - U.S. vs.

6Sweden, a.m. - 8Women’s a.m. — Speed Mixed Team Freestyle Skating - 5000mSkiing - Aerials Final Cross-Country Skiing - 10km 4:45 (LIVE), p.m. - Women’s 10:55 p.m.

— Women’s Skeleton (LIVE) and Second Ice Hockey U.S. vs.

8First a.m.Run - 10:30 a.m. —Run, Men’sMen’s Ice Hockey - U.S.-vs.

China China, Team Luge Relay (LIVE) 10:55 p.m. - 1:30 a.m. — Women’s Ice Hockey 10:30 a.m. (LIVE) - 2:45 p.m. — Men’s Curling - U.S. vs.

Quarterfinal Sweden, Women’s SkatingIce - 5000m 1:30 a.m. - 2 p.m.Speed — Women’s Hockey - Postgame Show 4:45 p.m. - 10:55 p.m. — Women’s Skeleton (LIVE) First Run and Second Run, Men’s Ice Hockey - U.S. vs.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11 China, Team Luge - RelayCNBC 10:55 -— 1:30 a.m.Curling — Women’s IceSwitzerland Hockey 5 p.m. -p.m.

7 p.m.

Men’s - Canada vs.

8 p.m.

11 p.m.

— Women’s Curling Sweden vs.

Quarterfinal (LIVE) Canada (LIVE) 1:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. — Women’s Ice Hockey - Postgame 11 p.m. - 1:30 a.m. — Women’s Ice Hockey - Quarterfinal Show (LIVE)

NBC 2 p.m. - 5 p.m.FRIDAY, — Men’s Speed Skating - 10,000m, FEBRUARY 11 Men’s Cross-Country Skiing 15km CNBC 8 p.m. - 11 p.m. — Snowboard - Mixed Team Cross 5Final p.m.(LIVE), - 7 p.m.

— Men’s Curling - Canada vs. Switzerland Women’s Alpine Skiing - Downhill Training 8(LIVE), p.m. Short - 11 p.m.

Women’s 1000m Curling Final - Sweden vs.

Track— - Women’s & Men’s Relay Semifinal, Canada (LIVE) Men’s Short Track - 500m Qualifying,

11 p.m. - 1:30 a.m.

— Women’s IcePAGE Hockey - Quarterfinal CONTINUED ON NEXT (LIVE) NBC 2 p.m. - 5 p.m. — Men’s Speed Skating - 10,000m, Men’s Cross-Country Skiing - 15km 8 p.m. - 11 p.m. — Snowboard - Mixed Team Cross Final (LIVE), Women’s Alpine Skiing - Downhill Training (LIVE), Short Track - Women’s 1000m Final & Men’s Relay Semifinal, Men’s Short Track - 500m Qualifying, CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

United States players celebrate after winning the women’s gold medal hockey game against Canada at the 2018 Winter Olympics.

United States players celebrate after winning the women’s gold medal hockey game against Canada at the 2018 Winter Olympics.

U.S. Women Eager to Repeat

(AP) — Forward Brianna Decker was unable to contain her enthusiasm in being selected to represent the United States in hockey for a third Olympics. She then bluntly declared the team’s one and only objective heading to the Beijing Games nextwas month.

(AP) — Forward Brianna Decker unable to “Our her business isn’t finished we to come back contain enthusiasm in being until selected represent with a gold medal,” Decker said. theThough United she States in hockey a third Olympics.

She didn’t have toforsay it, Canada — who then bluntly declaredinthe team’s else?

— is standing their way. one and only objecUnitedtoStates is the defending tiveThe heading the Beijing Games nextOlympic month. champion afterbusiness beating Canada in a nail-biting 3-2 shootout “Our isn’t finished until we come back win in South Korea in 2018 to end Canada’s run of with Olympic a gold medal,” said. four titles. Decker And yet, Canada is the reigning Though she didn’t to say it, Canada —overwho world champion after have punching back with a 3-2 time August. in their way. else?win — isinstanding “Yeah, it’s been since we’ve lost to them,” The United Statesa while is the defending Olympic chamDecker said. “It’s really a sad thing, but you know, pion after beating a nail-biting 3-2 bit shootout sometimes you’veCanada got to in lose to get a little more winofinyour Southteam Korea to end Canada’s run of out andin out2018 of yourself.”

At Olympic first glance, Canada appears to have advanfour titles.

And yet, Canada is thethereigning tage with speed and experience.

The U.S. relies more world champion after punching back with a 3-2 overon a puck-control offensive style to set up in-close time winfrom in August. chances Hilary Knight and Alex Carpenter, who “Yeah, it’sbeing been left a while since we’ve lost to them,” returns after off the 2018 roster.

Barring what a major upset, Decker said.

“It’swould reallybea considered sad thing, but you know, the rest of the field continues playing catchup. sometimes you’ve got to lose to get a little bit more The Finns beat Switzerland to win bronze at the out of your team and outAtofthe yourself.” world championships.

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U.S. Women Eager to Repeat

chances from Hilary Knight and Alex Carpenter, who returns after being left off the 2018 roster.

Barring what would be considered a major upset, the rest of the field continues playing catchup.

The Finns beat Switzerland to win bronze at the world championships. At the 2019 world championships on home soil, Finland upset Canada in the semifinals and came a disallowed goal in overtime away from beating the Americans.

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CANADIAN MIGHT Eric far players the most experienced and The Staal lack ofis by NHL throws even more accomplished player expected to take part in uncertainty into athe competition the NHL U.S., the tournament: veteran of almostand 1,400 Canada,who Finland games playedand for Sweden Montrealarein all the thinking Stanley they Final have alast realistic chance winning.

Cup summer.

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He is adds already of first just Olympic men’s hockey medal since 2010.

29That players in the Triple Gold Club as winners means the likes of North Dakota’s Jake Sanderson and Cup, Michigan’s Mattygold Beniers of the Stanley an Olympic medalplayand ing alongside recent former NHL players Kenny world championship gold medal.

Agostino, Steven Kampfer and U.S. Aaron Ness.

That’s a far MIX-AND-MATCH cry from Auston Matthews, Patrick Theand U.S.Seth is Jones hopingsharing a balance of in young Kane the ice whatcolthe Olympics wereexperienced supposed to like,American but the lege stars and proslook in the expectations are still internally.

Hockey League and high Europe adds up to its first

Olympic men’s hockey medal since 2010.

That means the likes of North Dakota’s Jake Sanderson and Michigan’s Matty Beniers playing alongside recent former NHL players Kenny Agostino, Steven Kampfer and Aaron Ness.

That’s a far cry from Auston Matthews, Patrick Kane and Seth Jones sharing the ice in what the Olympics were supposed to look like, but the expectations are still high internally.

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Humphries, Meyers Taylor Lead US Hopes (AP) — At the last Olympics, Kaillie Humphries was Canadian and women’s bobsledders had just one chance to win medals.

A few things have changed over the last four years.

Humphries holds American citizenship now, and she’ll be competing in two events at the Beijing Games, with this set to become the first Olympics where monobob is included in the medal program.

And the three-time medalist is looking for more.

Olympic gold is what drives her, and most bobsledders, like nothing else. The longtime star of the Canadian bobsled team began sliding for the Americans three seasons ago, needing a lengthy legal and administrative fight just to get a U.S. passport in time to compete in these Olympics. She got it, with just a few weeks to spare.

Now, she has a chance at double medals. The women have their customary two-person event, plus monobob — just a driver in the sled, no brakeman — is a huge chance for some of the best pilots in the world to enhance their Olympic legacies. Humphries is the reigning world champion and fellow U.S. driver Elana Meyers Taylor has been arguably the best monobobber in the world this season.

But here’s more proof that it’s all about Beijing: Meyers Taylor — also a three-time Olympic medalist, one of those coming as a push athlete — skipped a monobob race a few weeks ago, thinking more about long-term goals than short-term gains.

It’ll be the usual suspects who enter the Beijing Games as medal favorites. The U.S. could get as many as four of the six medals awarded in women’s races. And on the men’s side, it’s all about Germany — which means it’s all about Francesco Friedrich.

The double-gold winner from the Pyeongchang Games is the overwhelming favorite to win double gold again at these Olympics. Nobody has ever swept both men’s events in back-to-back Olympics; Germany’s Andre Lange came closest, winning fourman golds in 2002 and 2006, plus two-man golds in 2006 and 2010.

His dominance has been unmatched in the sport’s history: seven consecutive world championships in two-man, four consecutive world championships in four-man, and since the Pyeongchang Games he’s

Kaillie Humphries and Lolo Jones from the United States at the start of the women’s two-women bobsleigh World Cup race in Igls, near Innsbruck, Austria.

won an absurd 82% of his international races. A three-week training stint in China this fall showed Friedrich what he has to do there to be successful in February, and his confidence is high.

LOOKING FOR SIX The U.S. bobsled team is seeking to win a medal for the sixth consecutive Olympics, and frankly, it’d be a complete disaster if the Americans didn’t get at least one. A medal in six games in a row would tie the longest such streak in U.S. Olympic bobsled history; it also happened in six straight from 1928 through 1956. Switzerland has the record for medal streaks in bobsled, winning one in 11 consecutive Olympics from 1968 through 2006.

MIND THE GAP Britain has only five Olympic bobsled medals and hasn’t had an on-track medal celebration since 1998; the four-man medal won in 2014 was awarded years later after the British were promoted to bronze following the disqualification of Russian sleds in a doping scandal. But Brad Hall has been a contender just about every week in World Cup races this season, and he looks like a legit challenger.

Men’s Skeleton - Third & Final Runs, Men’s Ski Jumping - Individual Large Hill Qualifying 11:35 p.m. - 12:30 a.m. — Women’s Biathlon - 7.5km Sprint USA 2 a.m. - 3:40 a.m. — Men’s Cross-Country Skiing 15km (LIVE) 3:40 a.m. - 6 a.m. — Men’s Ice Hockey - Czech Republic vs. Switzerland (LIVE) 6 a.m. - 9:40 a.m. — Short Track - Women’s 1000m Final & Men’s Relay Semifinal & Men’s 500m Qualifying (LIVE), Men’s Skeleton Final Run (LIVE), Third Run 9:40 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. — Women’s Ice Hockey Quarterfinal (LIVE) 10:30 a.m. - 11 p.m. — Women’s Curling - U.S. vs.

China Ice Hockey, Men’s Speed Skating - 10,000m, Men’s Cross-Country Skiing - 15km, Women’s Biathlon 7.5km Sprint, Men’s Ski Jumping - Individual Large Hill Qualifying 11 p.m. - 1:30 a.m. — Men’s Ice Hockey - U.S. vs.

Canada (LIVE) 1:30 a.m. - 2:30 a.m. — Women’s Curling - Korea vs.

Russian Olympic Committee SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12 CNBC 8 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. — Men’s Ice Hockey - Russian Olympic Committee vs. Czech Republic (LIVE) 5 p.m. - 8 p.m. — Women’s Curling - U.S. vs. Great Britain 8 p.m. - 11 p.m. — Men’s Curling - U.S. vs. Canada (LIVE) 11 p.m. - 1:30 a.m. — Men’s Ice Hockey - Slovakia vs.

Latvia (LIVE) NBC 2:30 p.m. - 6 p.m. — Women’s Speed Skating - Team Pursuit Qualifying, Women’s Cross-Country Skiing 4x5km Relay, Men’s Biathlon - 10km Sprint 8 p.m. - 11 p.m. — Men’s Alpine Skiing - Giant Slalom, First Run (LIVE), Women’s Monobob - First & Second Runs (LIVE), Figure Skating - Rhythm Dance, Women’s Skeleton - Third & Final Runs 11:30 p.m. - 2 a.m. — Men’s Alpine Skiing - Giant CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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Slalom, Final Run (LIVE), Men’s Speed Skating - 500m, Women’s Freestyle Skiing - Slopestyle Qualifying, Men’s Slalom, Final -Run (LIVE),Large Men’sHill Speed Ski Jumping Individual Final Skating - 500m, Women’s Freestyle Skiing USA - Slopestyle Qualifying, Men’s 2:30Jumping a.m. - 6- Individual a.m. — Women’s Skiing Ski Large HillCross-Country Final 4x5km Relay (LIVE), Men’sUSA Biathlon - 10km Sprint (LIVE) 6 a.m. - 9:40 a.m. — Figure Skating - Rhythm (LIVE) 2:30 a.m.— —Men’s Women’s Cross-Country Skiingvs.9:45 a.m. a.m. -- 96 p.m.

Ice Hockey - Switzerland 4x5km Relay (LIVE), Men’s Biathlon - 10kmSpeed SprintSkating (LIVE) Denmark, Men’s Curling - U.S. vs. Norway, Men’s- 9:40 500m & — Women’s Team Pursuit 6- a.m. a.m.

Figure Skating - RhythmQualifying, (LIVE) Women’s Skiing 4x5km -Relay, Men’s Ski 9:45 a.m. Cross-Country - 9 p.m. — Men’s Ice-Hockey Switzerland vs.

Jumping Individual Large Hill Final, Women’s Skeleton Denmark, Men’s Curling U.S. vs.

Norway, Speed Skating - Third & Final Runs -9 Men’s p.m. - 500m 2 a.m.&—Women’s Women’sTeam AlpinePursuit Skiing Qualifying, - Downhill Women’s Cross-Country Skiing 4x5km Relay, Men’s Ski Training (LIVE), Women’s Freestyle Skiing - Slopestyle Qualifying (LIVE), Women’s Monobob First & Second Jumping - Individual Large Hill Final, Women’s Skeleton Runs, Men’s Curling Norway vs.

Sweden - Third & Final Runs

9 p.m. - 2 a.m.SUNDAY, — Women’s Alpine 13 Skiing - Downhill FEBRUARY Training (LIVE), Women’sNBC Freestyle Skiing - Slopestyle 8 a.m. - Noon — Women’s Skating - 500m (LIVE), Qualifying (LIVE), Women’sSpeed Monobob - First & Second Men’s Men’s SpeedCurling Skating- Norway - Team Pursuit Qualifying (LIVE), Runs, vs. Sweden

Short Track - Men’s 500m & Women’s 3000m Relay Finals, Women’s Freestyle Skiing - Aerials Qualifying, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY Men’s Cross-Country Skiing - 4x10km13 Relay 10:45 p.m. - 12 a.m. —NBC Figure Skating - Free Dance Speed Skating 500m - 500m (LIVE), 8(LIVE), a.m. -Women’s Noon — Women’s Speed- Skating 12:30 a.m.

2 a.m.

— Women’s Snowboard Big Air Men’s Speed Skating - Team Pursuit Qualifying- (LIVE), Qualifying, Women’s Freestyle Skiing - Slopestyle Final Short Track - Men’s 500m USA& Women’s 3000m Relay Finals, Women’s Freestyle SkiingCross-Country - Aerials Qualifying, 2 a.m. - 4:40 a.m. — Men’s Skiing 4x10km Relay (LIVE), Women’s Biathlon - 10km Pursuit Men’s Cross-Country Skiing - 4x10km Relay (LIVE) p.m. - 12 a.m. — Figure Skating - Free Dance 10:45 4:40 a.m. - 6 a.m. — Men’s Ice Hockey - Finland vs.

(LIVE), SwedenWomen’s (LIVE) Speed Skating - 500m 12:30 a.m.

- 2 a.m.

— Women’s Snowboard Air 6 a.m. - 8 a.m.

— Men’s Short Track - 500m- Big (LIVE), Qualifying, Women’s Slopestyle Women’s Short TrackFreestyle - 3000mSkiing Relay -Finals (LIVE)Final 8 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. — USA Men’s Ice Hockey - U.S. vs.

(LIVE) 2Germany a.m.

4:40 a.m.

— Men’s Cross-Country Skiing 10:30 a.m. - 8:15 p.m. — Men’s Ice Hockey - U.S. 4x10km Relay Men’s (LIVE),Curling Women’s Biathlon - 10kmWomen’s Pursuit vs. Germany, - U.S. vs. China, (LIVE) Curling - U.S. vs. Sweden, Women’s Speed Skating 500m,a.m.

Women’s Freestyle Skiing - Aerials- Finland Qualifying, 4:40 - 6 a.m.

— Men’s Ice Hockey vs.

Men’s Biathlon Sweden (LIVE) - 12.5km Pursuit NEXTTrack PAGE - 500m (LIVE), 6 a.m. - 8 a.m.CONTINUED — Men’sON Short Women’s Short Track - 3000m Relay Finals (LIVE) 8 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. — Men’s Ice Hockey - U.S. vs.

Germany (LIVE) 10:30 a.m. - 8:15 p.m. — Men’s Ice Hockey - U.S. vs. Germany, Men’s Curling - U.S. vs. China, Women’s Curling - U.S. vs. Sweden, Women’s Speed Skating 500m, Women’s Freestyle Skiing - Aerials Qualifying, Men’s Biathlon - 12.5km Pursuit

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(AP) — There wound up being five chosen as part —sliders There wound up of(AP) the U.S. Olympic skeleton being five sliders chosen as part team that competed in the 2006 of theGames.

U.S. Olympic skeleton Turin Of those, four are in long team that competed theretired.

2006 Chris Soule stopped sliding after Turin Games. those Olympics. Kevin Ellis Of those, four are long retired. stopped in 2009.

Zach Lund and Chris Soule stopped sliding after Eric Bernotas in 2010.

The other is KatieKevin Uhlaender. those Olympics.

Ellis More than a decade after all her stopped in 2009. Zach Lund and teammates hung up their sleds, Eric in 2010. she’sBernotas still going — apparently The other is Katie Uhlaender. now with a finish line in sight.

More thanisa decade after to all her Uhlaender in position compete in her fifth, teammates hung up their sleds, and final, she’s still Olympics. going — apparently “I have worked now with a extremely finish hard line andin sight.

Uhlaender in position to sacrificed iseverything over the last compete in four her years fifth, to pursue the Beijing and final, Olympics.

Games,” Uhlaender “I “Ihave worked said. have dedicated extremely hard and most of my life to winning an Olympic medal sacrificed everything in skeleton.” over the last four years She wasthe theBeijing first women’s to pursue skeleton athlete to compete in Games,” Uhlaender four Olympics when she was said.

“I the havePyeongchang dedicated Games part of in 2018 — toso, most of my life win-obviously, if she starts the race at these ning an Olympic medal Beijing Games she’ll be the first in skeleton.” five-timer as well.

She was the first women’s And Uhlaender might not be a medal favorite, certainly skeleton athletebut to it’s compete in not far-fetched thinkshe she was can four Olympics towhen get to the podium.

Uhlaender is part Games one of of the 11 Pyeongchang women with at least in so, obviously, four2018 top-10—finishes in World ifCupsheraces starts race at these this the season.

The gold though, Beijing Gamesfavorites, she’ll be the first are clear: Kimberley Bos of the five-timer as well.

And Uhlaender might not be a medal favorite, but it’s certainly not far-fetched to think she can get to the podium. Uhlaender is one of 11 women with at least four top-10 finishes in World Cup races this season.

The gold favorites, though, are clear: Kimberley Bos of the

Netherlands and Martins Dukurs of Latvia were the winners of Netherlands the women’sand andMartins men’s Dukurs World of Latvia were the of Cup overall season winners championthe women’s and men’s World ships, and that means they’ll be the consensus picks to win the Cup overall season championbig prize when they get to the ships, and that means they’ll be Beijing Games. the“The consensus picks to win the Olympics are a combig prizedifferent when they get to the pletely competition,” Bos said.

“The story that past Beijing Games. results are no guarantee the “The Olympics are aforcomfuture certainly holds true in our

pletely different competition,” Bos said. “The story that past results are no guarantee for the future certainly holds true in our

sport. In Beijing it’s a completely different job. But I’m in good shape, really looking forward to it and we’ve got the process together as a team.”

She won her first World Cup overall title this season. Dukurs won his 11th -- but has yet to capture Olympic gold. He sport.

In Beijing it’s a completedoesn’t think the World Cup ly different job. Buthim I’manything in good crown guarantees shape, really looking forward to at the Olympics. it “This and we’ve got competition,” the process is a new Dukurs said.

“Really interesting, together as a team.” really trackfirst ... aWorld totally Cup difShe crazy won her

overall title this season. Dukurs won his 11th -- but has yet to capture Olympic gold. He doesn’t think the World Cup crown guarantees him anything at the Olympics.

“This is a new competition,” Dukurs said. “Really interesting, really crazy track ... a totally dif-

ferent race.”

THE SPORT EXPLAINED ferent race.”sliders go down the Skeleton THE SPORT often EXPLAINED track headfirst, reaching Skeleton sliders 80 go mph down(129 the speeds exceeding kph).

Athletes typically begin track headfirst, often reaching with one hand on80 their as speeds exceeding mphsled (129 they sprint alongside, then leap kph). aboard Athletes for the typically ride downbegin the with one hand on their as track. The better the startsled time, the more they sprintmomentum alongside, and thenspeed leap they’ll carry intoride the down first few aboard for the the turns. A great start isn’t crucial, track.

The better the start time, but definitely helps. the more MEN’S momentum and speed RACE Therecarry were into six different they’ll the first men few to win World Cup gold medals turns. A great start isn’t crucial, this definitely season, but in the last four but helps. races one family has dominated.

MartinsMEN’S DukursRACE got all three There were six different men of his victories in that span the other wentmedals to his to winand World Cup gold brother, Dukurs. this season, butTomass in the last four Germany’s Axel Jungk races one family has dominated. and Christopher Grotheer Martins Dukurs all three should be ingot medal conas well; they span finoftention his victories in that ished and to third, and thesecond other went his respectively, in the World brother, Tomass Dukurs.

Cup standings.

Germany’s WOMEN’SAxel RACEJungk The and last Christopher World Cup Grotheer race had sliders should from nine in be in countries medal conthe top tention nine spots, certainly sugas well; they fingesting that plenty of nations ished second and Games third, will head to the Beijing respectively, in legit the World believing they have medal hopes.

Bos, Elena Nikitina — Cup standings. who is WOMEN’S from Russia, but canRACE notThe technically race under her World had nation’slastflag at Cup theserace Games sliders nine countries in becausefrom of doping sanctions the top nine certainly against the spots, Russians — sugand Germany’s Hermann were gesting thatTina plenty of nations all two-time winners this season. will head to the Beijing Games

believing they have legit medal hopes. Bos, Elena Nikitina — who is from Russia, but cannot technically race under her nation’s flag at these Games because of doping sanctions against the Russians — and Germany’s Tina Hermann were all two-time winners this season.

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A Long, Winding Road for U.S. in Luge (AP) — Emily Sweeney is headed to the Olympics to represent USA Luge for a second time, and her plans for the next couple weeks are largely the same as the final preparations were for her debut at the Pyeongchang Games four years ago.

With one minor exception.

The plan this time includes a new twist: “Not getting COVID,” she said.

It has not been an easy season for USA Luge.

Some athletes got hurt, others never found consistent speed, there were no races on familiar ice in North America. The top doubles sled of Chris Mazdzer and Jayson Terdiman didn’t make the Olympics and Sweeney had to miss two World Cups in Russia because, as an active soldier in the U.S. Army, she wasn’t allowed to go there under current military guidelines.

And, of course, there are the virus concerns, which could still thwart anyone’s plans of racing at the Beijing Games. But there is hope, perhaps especially on the women’s side where Sweeney and Summer Britcher have routinely had some of the best speeds in the world all season.

Mazdzer won an Olympic silver medal in 2018 and he’ll be back for a fourth time, leading a men’s team that includes veteran Olympian Tucker West and newcomer Jonny Gustafson. Britcher, Sweeney and Olympic rookie Ashley Farquharson are the women’s sliders, and rookies Zack Di Gregorio and Sean Hollander are the doubles team that the Americans are sending.

And even though some of their teammates didn’t make the Olympic cut, there has been a camaraderie that was essential this season.

WOMEN’S SINGLES At least two women will break through and reach the Olympic medal stand for the first time, since two-time defending gold medalist Natalie Geisenberger of Germany is the only past medalist expected to be in this field. Dajana Eitberger, the 2018 silver medalist from Germany, didn’t qualify and 2018 bronze medalist Alex Gough of Canada retired.

A third consecutive gold would only add to Geisenberger’s argument as being her sport’s greatest ever — no woman has ever gone back-to-back-

Daily TV Schedule

8:15 p.m. - 10:45 p.m. — Figure Skating - Free Dance (LIVE) 10:45 p.m. - 11:10 p.m. — Women’s Ice Hockey Pregame Show 11:10 p.m. - 1:30 a.m. — Women’s Ice Hockey Semifinal (LIVE) 1:30 a.m. - 2:45 a.m. — Men’s Snowboard - Big Air Qualifying (LIVE)

Summer Britcher of the United States speeds down the track during the women’s race at the Luge World Cup in Igls near Innsbruck, Austria.

to-back at the Olympics or won an individual medal in four straight games.

There are plenty of contenders: Germany’s Julia Taubitz and Austria’s Madeleine Egle have been the most consistent all year, and there’s no question that Britcher and Sweeney can both find their way to the medal stand.

MEN’S SINGLES King Felix is back, seeking to reclaim his title.

Felix Loch won Olympic gold in 2010 and 2014 for Germany and was the leader entering the fourth and final run of the 2018 race — then bumped a wall, lost a ton of speed and fell all the way to fifth place. Austria’s David Gleirscher prevailed, with Mazdzer second for the U.S. Loch is back and right there among the top contenders for these games. Fellow German slider Johannes Ludwig — a winner by a massive margin in the preseason race at Yanqing — will likely be the favorite, while Latvia’s Kristers Aparjods, Austria’s Wolfgang Kindl and Germany’s Max Langerhan have been consistent for most of the season. Another name to watch: Dominik Fischnaller of Italy, always a medal threat.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14 CNBC 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. — Women’s Curling - Switzerland vs.

Sweden 8 p.m. - 11 p.m. — Men’s Curling - U.S. vs. Switzerland (LIVE) 11 p.m. - 1:30 a.m. — Men’s Ice Hockey - Playoff Round (LIVE) NBC 2 p.m. - 5 p.m. — Men’s Snowboard - Big Air Qualifying Women’s Freestyle Skiing - Slopestyle Final, Women’s Monobob - Third & Final Runs, Men’s Ski Jumping Team Large Hill 8 p.m. - 11:30 p.m. — Women’s Alpine Skiing Downhill Run (LIVE), Women’s Snowboard - Big Air Final (LIVE), Women’s Freestyle Skiing - Aerials Final, Two-Man Bobsled - First & Second Runs 12:05 am. - 2 a.m. — Men’s Snowboard - Big Air Final (LIVE), Men’s Freestyle Skiing - Slopestyle Final USA 3 a.m. - 8 a.m. — Women’s Freestyle Skiing - Aerials Final (LIVE), Two-Man Bobsled - First Run (LIVE), Women’s Curling - U.S. vs. Korea 8 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. — Women’s Ice Hockey - Semifinal (LIVE) 10:30 a.m. - 8:30 p.m. — Women’s Ice Hockey Semifinal, Men’s Freestyle Skiing - Slopestyle Qualifying, Men’s Curling - Russian Olympic Committee vs. Sweden, Two-Man Bobsled - Second Run, Men’s Ski Jumping Team Large Hill 8:30 p.m. - 11 p.m. — Men’s Freestyle Skiing Slopestyle Final (LIVE), Men’s Snowboard - Big Air Qualifying 11 p.m. - 1:30 a.m. — Men’s Ice Hockey - Playoff Round 1:30 a.m. - 3:55 a.m. — Speed Skating - Men’s and CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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Kobayashi Among Favorites in Ski Jump Daily TV Schedule Kobayashi Among Favorites in Ski Jump Daily TV Schedule

Women’s Team Pursuit Finals (LIVE)

Women’s Team Pursuit Finals (LIVE)

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15 CNBC FEBRUARY 15vs. Italy 5 p.m. - 7 p.m.TUESDAY, — Men’s Curling - U.S. CNBCCurling - U.S. vs. Canada 8 p.m. - 11 p.m. — Women’s 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. — Men’s NBC Curling - U.S. vs. Italy 2 p.m.

5 p.m.

— Women’s Speed- Skating - Team 8Pursuit, p.m. - Men’s 11 p.m.

— Women’s Curling U.S. vs. Canada Biathlon - 4x7.5km Relay, Men’s Nordic NBC Combined Skiing, Individual 10km, Individual Large Hill 28 p.m. p.m. -- 11:30 5 p.m.p.m.

—— Women’s Speed Skiing Skating- Slalom, - Team Men’s Alpine First Run (LIVE), Women’s Figure Skating Short Pursuit, Men’s Biathlon - 4x7.5km Relay, Men’s- Nordic Program, Two-Man Bobsled 10km, - ThirdIndividual & Final Runs, Men’s Combined Skiing, Individual Large Hill Speed Skating - Team Pursuit 812:05 p.m.a.m.

- 11:30 p.m.

— Men’s Alpine Skiing Slalom, - 2 a.m. — Men’s Alpine Skiing - Slalom, Final First Run (LIVE), Women’sSkiing Figure Skating - Short Run (LIVE), Men’s Freestyle - Aerials Qualifying USA Program, Two-Man Bobsled - Third & Final Runs, Men’s 4 a.m.Skating - 9:25 a.m.

Women’s Figure Skating - Short Speed - Team—Pursuit Program (LIVE), Women’s Alpine Skiing - Downhill Run 12:05 a.m. -- 210:30 a.m. a.m.

— Men’s Alpine Ice Skiing - Slalom, Final 9:25 a.m.

— Men’s Hockey - Playoff Run (LIVE), Men’s Freestyle Skiing Aerials Qualifying Round (LIVE) 10:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. —USA Women’s Curling - U.S. vs.

Switzerland, Men’s Nordic Combined Skiing - Individual 4 a.m. - 9:25 a.m. — Women’s Figure Skating - Short Large Hill & 10km, Men’s Biathlon 4x7.5km Relay, Program (LIVE), Women’s Alpine Skiing Downhill Run Two-Man Bobsled - Third & Final Runs, Men’s Freestyle 9:25 a.m.

10:30 a.m.

— Men’s Ice Hockey Playoff Skiing - Aerials Qualifying Round 5 p.m. (LIVE) - 9 p.m. — Men’s Ice Hockey - Playoff Round, Men’s Ice - Playoff Round 10:30 a.m.Hockey - 5 p.m.

— Women’s Curling - U.S. vs.

9 p.m.

11 p.m.

— Men’s Nordic Combined Skiing Switzerland, Men’s Nordic Combined Skiing - Individual Individual Large Hill & 10km, Men’s Biathlon - 4x7.5km Large Relay Hill & 10km, Men’s Biathlon - 4x7.5km Relay, Two-Man - Third & Final Men’s Freestyle 11 p.m. - Bobsled 1:30 a.m.

— Men’s IceRuns, Hockey - Quarterfinal (LIVE) Skiing - Aerials Qualifying 1:30 a.m.

3:20 a.m.

— Men’s Ice Hockey - Quarterfinal 5(LIVE) p.m.

- 9- p.m.

— Men’s Ice Hockey - Playoff Round,

Men’s Ice Hockey - Playoff Round 9 p.m. - 11 p.m.

— Men’sFEBRUARY Nordic Combined Skiing WEDNESDAY, 16 CNBCMen’s Biathlon - 4x7.5km Individual Large Hill & 10km, 5Relay p.m. - 7 p.m. — Women’s Curling - U.S. vs. Japan 8 p.m. - 11 p.m. — Men’s Curling - U.S. vs. Denmark 11 p.m. - 1:30 a.m. — Men’s Ice Hockey - Quarterfinal (LIVE) (LIVE) NBC 21:30 p.m.

- 5- p.m.

— Men’s and Women’s a.m.

3:20 a.m.

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16 CNBC 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. — Women’s Curling - U.S. vs. Japan 8 p.m. - 11 p.m. — Men’s Curling - U.S. vs. Denmark (LIVE) NBC 2 p.m. - 5 p.m. — Men’s and Women’s Cross-Country Skiing - Team Sprint Finals, Women’s Biathlon - 4x6km CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

(AP) — Even athletes who compete in skiEven jumping and awho for(AP) — athletes mer Olympian paid to analyze the compete in ski jumping forsport on TV have no ideaand whoa will mer Olympian to analyze win gold at the paid Beijing Games. the sport on TVbecause have nomore idea who That’s thanwilla dozen men to haveGames. a shot. win gold at seem the Beijing The of contenders, That’slist because more though, than a might be reduced by one. dozen men seem to have a shot.

Three-time Olympic champion The list of contenders, though, Kamil Stoch has an injured left leg.

Stoch won on the large might be reduced by one. hill at theThree-time 2018 Olympics, elevating his Olympic champion status as a superstar in a country Kamil Stoch injured left obsessed withhas skianjumping.

He leg.

Stoch won on the large hill in at rose to fame at the Sochi Games 2014, when he won on the large the 2018 Olympics, elevating his and hills. statusnormal as a superstar in a country If Stoch can’t compete in China, obsessed with ski jumping.

He there are plenty of contenders rose to fame at the Sochi Games in ready to soar and take one or both of his titles.

2014, when he won on the large andJapan’s normal Ryoyu hills. Kobayashi is theIf world’s top-ranked ski jumpStoch can’t compete in China, er and Germany’s Karl Geiger is there are plenty contenders right behind him. ofSome talentready and take Norwegians one or both ed andto soar experienced — including of his titles. three-time Olympic medalist Johansson — are Japan’sRobert Ryoyu Kobayashi is expected to also contend in a widethe world’s top-ranked ski jumpopen competition. er “Ski and Germany’s Geiger is jumping is Karl a sport that’s about behind what have youSome done for me right him. talentlately it’s all about Norwegians who can get ed andandexperienced hot at the Olympics,” said NBC — including analyst Johnnythree-time Spillane, Olympic a threemedalist Robert Johansson — are time Nordic combined Olympian.

Ski jumping be held the expected to alsowill contend in a in widemountainous Zhangjiakou compeopen competition. tition zone, about 100 miles north“Skiof Beijing. jumping is a sport that’s west about havecompete you doneindividufor me The what men will ally onand theit’s normal hillwho Feb.can 6 and lately all about get on hill on Feb. said 12. NBC hotthe at large the Olympics,” The women go for agold on analyst Johnnywill Spillane, three-

time Nordic combined Olympian.

Ski jumping will be held in the mountainous Zhangjiakou competition zone, about 100 miles northwest of Beijing.

The men will compete individually on the normal hill Feb. 6 and on the large hill on Feb. 12.

The women will go for gold on

Feb. 5 in an individual competition Feb. 5and in anforindividual compethe first tition andtime, for they will be the first time, part of a mixed they team will event be with men 7. part ofonaFeb. mixed Ski jumpers team event withhave competed at the Olympics mensince on Feb. the7.first Winter Ski Games jumpersin have 1924. technologcompeted at With the Olympics ical advances in since the firstsuits Winter and skis, Games in 1924. the fearless With technologathletes approach 60 mph (about ical 100 advances in kph) before launching suits and skis, themselves off a jump and soarthe fearless ing the length of an American athletes approach football field plus the end zones.

STAR 60 mph MISSING (about 100 Marenbefore Lundbylaunching chose not to kph) defend her Olympic gold in womthemselves off a saying jump and en’s ski jumping, she soardidn’t ing lengththeof sacrifices an American wantthe to make necfootball end zones. essary tofield fightplus herthe body’s natural changes and competeSTAR at a top level MISSING in Maren Beijing.Lundby chose not to The sport has attempted to defend Olympic goldthat in womaddressher eating disorders have en’s ski jumping, she didn’t historically been saying a problem, with rule changes to make want to makedesigned the sacrifices nec-it aessary disadvantage to body’s cut toonatural much to fight her weight. The laws of physics give changes and compete at a top level lighter jumpers an advantage, and in Beijing. some have been willing to go to extreme measures be thin to The sport has to attempted win. address eating disorders that have “It was a bigger issue in the historically beenalways a problem, with past, but it will be part of rule changes designed to make it the conversation,” Spillane said. is fantastic andtoo I’m much sorry a“Lundby disadvantage to cut she’s taking off.”give weight.

The the lawsOlympics of physics Austria’s Marita Kramer has lighter jumpers an advantage, and

some have been willing to go to extreme measures to be thin to win.

“It was a bigger issue in the past, but it will always be part of the conversation,” Spillane said.

“Lundby is fantastic and I’m sorry she’s taking the Olympics off.”

Austria’s Marita Kramer has

been dominant on the World Cupdominant circuit, winning in been on theevents World November and December Cup circuit, winning events in after finishing first in November and December three consecutive after competitions finishing first last in three March. consecutive S a rlasta competitions Takanashi

March.

S a r a of Japan, who earned Takanashi

bronze at the 2018 Olympics, of Pyeongchang Japan, won her 61st World whoCup title earned earlier this month to extend record for a bronze at theher2018 female or male ski jumper.

Pyeongchang Olympics, “Kramer is the stronwon hergest61stjumper Worldand Cup title earlier this month when she’s on, she’s to tough to beat,” said.a extend her Spillane record for “Takanashi femaleisorthe malewinningest ski jumper.ski jumper of “Kramer all time —is among men the stronor women — but she doesn’t have and a gold medalgest from jumper the Olympics when she’s on, yet.”

IT she’s toughSTILL to beat,”ATSpillane said.

Swiss jumper Simon Ammann “Takanashi is the winningest ski — a surprise star at the Salt Lake jumper of all time — among men City Games two decades ago, or women — but doesn’t when he won twoshe gold medalshave — isn’t yet at age the 40. Olympics a golddone medal from Ammann won two more golds yet.” at the Vancouver Games in 2010.

IT past his He appearsSTILL to beAT well Swissranking jumper Simon prime, No. 35Ammann in the World Cup standings. he — a surprise star at the But Salt ifLake can fifth Olympic Citysomehow Games win two a decades ago, gold, he would break the record he when won — shareshe with thetwo lategold Mattimedals Nykanen isn’t done yet atWith age 40. of Finland. any medal, Ammann would Nykanen’s Ammann wonmatch two more golds mark the most Games Olympicinmedals at the for Vancouver 2010. in sport’s to history.

Hetheappears be well past his

prime, ranking No. 35 in the World Cup standings. But if he can somehow win a fifth Olympic gold, he would break the record he shares with the late Matti Nykanen of Finland. With any medal, Ammann would match Nykanen’s mark for the most Olympic medals in the sport’s history.

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Short Track, Women’s 1500m Final, 5000m Relay (LIVE) finish at the Grand Prix in Men’s Mammoth Mountain, The torch theU.S. now 35-yearsubsequent success has proved that California, on icon Jan. 7.

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- 6firmly a.m. — watching him. legacy is in place it goes. ThatQualifying (LIVE), Women’s Alpine Skiing Combined with a list of podium finishes and hopes for more (LIVE) The group makes — ledhim by perhaps two-time freedom even more dangerous. Run, Men’s Nordic Combined Skiing - Team 4x5km Relay Track Women’s 6 a.m.

-silver 8:30 a.m.

— Short Japanese medalist Ayumu Eileen Gu is eyeing history of a (LIVE), different kind. The medals. p.m. I- can 1:30do a.m.

— Men’s Ice Hockey Semifinals 1500m— Quarterfinals & Semifinals & Final, Men’s 5000m 11:10 “All is feel confident in the -work that Hirano will stand at the top 18-year-old California-born star — who Skiing is just- as(LIVE) Final,inMen’s and Snow Women’s Cross-Country I’ve put in and feel confident in knowing that of Relay thecomfortable pipe Genting Park posing for Vogue as she is creating a1:30-4 a.m. — Men’s Curling - Bronze Medal Game I Team Sprint (LIVE) looking to doFinals what’s only been flexible with the laws of- gravity — will know how to push hard,” Diggins said after finMen’s Ice Hockey Quarterfinals 8:30 a.m.in- relationship 11 done once thea.m. last — four Games: attempt medal with in allWhite three disciplines: halfpipe, ishing the recent Tour de Ski in Europe. “So for (LIVE) stand atop thetopodium the next Olympics,18and every race FRIDAY, FEBRUARY slopestyle Air. And she’ll do it while com- me going into Women’s Ice Hockey - Bronze Medal 11the a.m.rest - 5 p.m.

—Big and ofand the sport looking between now and then, I do know that when I CNBC Chloe Kim, of the United States, executes a trick in the snowboarding peting forCurling China,- where her mother Yan Olympic emigrated up.Game, Men’s Great Britain vs. Russian crossed the finish line, I’ll have given everything 5 p.m.

7 p.m.

— Women’s Curling Semifinals halfpipe finals during the Dew Tour at Copper Mountain, Colo. from her 20s. in his For the in first time career, Committee, Women’s Biathlon - 4x6km Relay, Men’s 8 p.m.

I have.”

11 p.m.

— Women’s Curling Semifinals It’s decision Gunext madelogical in part to helpin progression navigating a white-hot spotlight White will Skiing head into theaOlympics step Freestyle - Aerials Final Norway’s Bjorgen, whoprecociousness won five medNBC courtesy of her not5 as the- favorite. years afterhardWhite won gold Marit theHockey sport in afour country that’s p.m.

7:30 p.m.grow — Ice als in Pyeongchang and a total of 15 in Men’s her 2 p.m.

5 p.m.

— Men’s Ice Hockey Semifinals, and her Korean heritage.

White didn’t lock up a spot on

by Freestyle drilling consecutive double Skiing 7:30 p.m. - 10:30lyp.m.

— Women’s a power in the Winter Games. career, more than any other Winter Olympian, Speed Skating 1000m, Men’s Biathlon 15km Mass LINDSEY’S LONG RUN Team USAQualifying until the(LIVE), final days cork 1440s (four twists).

- Halfpipe Men’s and Women’s Cross“It’s awesome to be able to win a retired after the American 2018 Games. snowboardcross star of Country qualifying hasn’t stood high risk-reSkiingand - Team Sprint Finals gold medal, there’sThe veryincreasingly few thingsStart Her former teammate, Therese Johaug, has Lindsey will make one atop the medal stand since that ward nature of the sport adds 8 p.m.

11 p.m.

— Men’sJacobellis Freestyle Skiing - Halfpipe Women’s 10:30 p.m. - 1:55 a.m. in that—moment thatAlpine would Skiing feel greatwon three Olympic medals and is set to add to final push to fill the only hole on pressure-packed final with Hirano a layer of uncertainty that the Final (LIVE), Figure Skating Pairs’ Short Program, TwoCombined, Slalom Run (LIVE), Freestyle Skiing (LIVE) er,”James Gu said. wantsmarquee to win. And her resume when the five-time and Australia’s Scotty in Gu sport’s event has lacked. that tally.

Heidi Weng, also from Norway, will Men’s Halfpipe Qualifying, Women’s Ski Cross Qualifying Woman Bobsled First & Second Runs if she can do itAtbyleast playing world champion makes another Pyeongchang. ona role the11:35 men’s surely be- 1:30 in the mix.— a.m.side. a.m.

Alpine Skiing - Team Event, in redefining what’s possible He’s back for what is almost bid Olympic gold. in 2018, Stina Things are a bit clearer on top Sweden’s medal winner THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17for her country, Four-Man Bobsled First & Second Runs certainly one last run, where JAMIE’S JOURNEY halfpipe, where Nilsson, has switched to biathlon, but the team CNBChe’ll the allwomen’s USA the better. get5 an up-close at a changing Three-time Olympic medalist American Chloe Kim will look to has dominated on the World Cup circuit this p.m.

- 7 p.m.look — Men’s Curling - Semifinals 4 a.m.

5:30 a.m.

— Men’s Speed Skating - 1000m Gu is a heavy of 8the guard.

Jamie Anderson will attempt toin bookend the gold medal she capp.m. - 11 p.m. — Men’s Curling - Semifinals season.

Maja Dahlquist has been hard to beat (LIVE), Men’sin Freestyle Skiing -reign Ski Cross Final The Japanese, led by Hirano and extend her atop women’s favorite to tured as a fresh-faced teenager NBC sprint races while Andersson andfor Frida world champion Yuto Totsuka, slopestyle when she vies a a.m.

- 8:45 a.m.

— Ebba Figure Skating - Pairs’ Short Korea-four cyears l a i ago. m5:30the Women’s with Alpine Skiing 2 p.m.

- 5 p.m.the — halfpipe Karlsson have collected medals in the distance have dominated third gold to join the ones she WhileCombined, Kim understands the Program (LIVE) g o l d Freestyle Skiing - Ski Cross races. theSlalom kindRun, of Women’s boundary-pushing Russia Korea. pressure she Final, will face China as earned 8:45in a.m.

- 10:30 a.m. —inMen’s Ice and Hockey - Semifinals on the Nordicthat Combined Skiing, Teamthe Large Hill,one Men’s Russia’s Natalia is showing strong tricks used to be Men’s White’s TheNepryaeva 31-year-old Anderson, only in the competition (LIVE) halfpipe and is a threat Team 4x5km Relay form after taking the gold in the six-stage FIS domain. who landed a cab double with an Olympic gold medal at in slopestyle and Big a.m. - 5 p.m.

—forCurling, Men’s Bronzecork Medal Freestyleshe’s Skiing - 10:30 8 p.m. -became 11:30 p.m.

— Women’s Hirano the first snow- home, 1080 started theinfirst time in compeTour de Ski, which Switzerland, moved hardly out of her Air, which will mak-came Game, Women’s Semifinals, Two-Woman Bobsled First HalfpipetoFinal Women’s Figure Skating -beFree boarder land(LIVE), a “triple cork” tition at Mammoth Mountain comfort zone.

She Korea and to to Germany concluded Jan. 4 with a climb- in up ing its Olympic debut in & Second Runs Speed Skating 1000m —Skate, three Women’s head-over-board flips -— January, believes she has yet to as the sport’s Next Big Thing an alpine ski slope in Italy. freestyle skiing.

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— Women’s Alpine Skiing Cross-Country Skiing 50km The athlete who(LIVE), wins Freestyle the Olympic Combined, Slalom Run Skiing (LIVE) sport without 10:30 p.m. - 11:10 p.m. starts — Men’s Hockey Pregame Men’s Halfpipe Qualifying, Women’s Skiequality, Cross Qualifying ski jumping stage theIce preventing wome

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