Tuesday, January 30, 2018

U.S. OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST LINDSEY VONN CONTINUES ROAD TO PYEONGCHANG DURING THIS WEEK’S NBC SPORTS’ WINTER SPORTS COVERAGE

U.S. OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST LINDSEY VONN CONTINUES ROAD TO PYEONGCHANG DURING THIS WEEK’S NBC SPORTS’ WINTER SPORTS COVERAGE

Vonn Highlights This Week’s Alpine Skiing World Cup Coverage, Continuing Today at 11:30 a.m. ET on NBCSN
STAMFORD, Conn. – January 30, 2018 – With less than two weeks to go until the start of the XXIII Olympic Winter Games from PyeongChang, South Korea, NBC Sports Group will present more than 35 hours of Olympic winter sports coverage this week across NBC, NBCSN, Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA, NBCSports.com, the NBC Sports app, OlympicChannel.com, and the Olympic Channel app, highlighted by live FIS alpine skiing World Cup coverage from Stockholm, and Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
This week’s coverage also features various winter sports, including:
  • FIS Snowboarding World Cup from Feldberg, Germany
  • FIS Men’s Ski Jumping World Cup from Willingen, Germany
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FIS ALPINE SKIING WORLD CUP
COVERAGE BEGINS TODAY AT 11:30 A.M. ET ON OLYMPIC CHANNEL: HOME OF TEAM USA
The alpine skiing World Cup season continues with the city event, a non-Olympic discipline, today in Stockholm, followed by the final races before the 2018 Olympic Winter Games. 2010 Olympic downhill gold medalist Lindsey Vonn, who won the downhill in Cortina on January 20, is expected to headline the women’s field.
Steve Schlanger (play-by-play) and 2010 Olympian Will Brandenburg will handle the call for this weekend’s events.
DateTime (ET)CoverageNetwork
Tues., Jan. 3011:30 a.m.City Event (Parallel) – StockholmOlympic Channel: Home of Team USA
Sat., Feb. 34:30 a.m.Women’s Downhill – Garmisch, GermanyOlympic Channel: Home of Team USA
 6:30 a.m.Women’s Downhill – Garmisch, GermanyOlympic Channel: Home of Team USA
 10:30 p.m.Women’s Downhill – Garmisch, Germany**NBCSN
 11:30 p.m.Women’s Downhill – Garmisch, Germany**NBCSN
Sun., Feb. 46:30 a.m.Women’s Downhill – Garmisch, GermanyOlympic Channel: Home of Team USA
 4 p.m.Women’s Downhill – Garmisch, Germany**NBCSN
*Streaming on OlympicChannel.com and the Olympic Channel app
** Same-day Delay
FIS SNOWBOARDING WORLD CUP
COVERAGE BEGINS SATURDAY AT 11 A.M. ET ON OLYMPIC CHANNEL: HOME OF TEAM USA
The snowboard cross World Cup season continues with the final event before the 2018 Olympic Winter Games, in Feldberg, Germany. Jonathan Cheever, who was recently named to his first Olympic team, and 2014 Sochi bronze medalist Alex Deibold are expected to lead the U.S. contingent.
DateTime (ET)Coverage
Sat., Feb. 36 a.m.Snowboard Cross*
 11 a.m.Snowboard Cross**
Sun., Feb. 46 a.m.Snowboard Cross*
 11 a.m.Snowboard Cross**
*Streaming on OlympicChannel.com and the Olympic Channel app
**Same-day delay
FIS MEN’S SKI JUMPING WORLD CUP
COVERAGE BEGINS SATURDAY AT 3 P.M. ET ON OLYMPIC CHANNEL: HOME OF TEAM USA
Athletes head to Willingen, Germany, for the final World Cup event before the 2018 Olympic Winter Games. Americans Kevin Bickner, Michael Glasder and Will Rhoads are all expected to compete.
Bill Spaulding calls the event alongside 2014 Olympian Jessica Jerome.
DateTime (ET)Coverage
Fri., Feb. 211:55 a.m.Men’s Individual*
Sat., Feb. 310 a.m.Men’s Individual*
 3 p.m.Men’s Individual**
Sun., Feb. 44:20 a.m.Men’s Individual*
 3 p.m.Men’s Individual**
*Streaming on OlympicChannel.com and the Olympic Channel app
**Same-day delay
NBCSPORTS.COM AND THE NBC SPORTS APP
NBCSports.com and the NBC Sports app – NBC Sports Group’s live streaming product for desktops, mobile devices, tablets, and connected TVs – will stream this weekend’s coverage. The NBC Sports app will stream coverage via “TV Everywhere,” giving consumers additional value to their subscription service, and making high-quality content available to MVPD customers both in and out of the home and on multiple platforms. Powered by Playmaker Media, the NBC Sports app is available on Apple iOS, Android and select Samsung devices, as well as on Amazon Fire, Apple TV, Chromecast, Roku, Win10, and Xbox.

ABOUT OLYMPIC CHANNEL: HOME OF TEAM USA
Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA is a partnership between the International Olympic Committee, the United States Olympic Committee, and NBCUniversal. The TV network offers fans year-round programming of Olympic Sports from around the world, highlighting their favorite American athletes and teams. Programming emphasizes live events from a broad portfolio of summer and winter Olympic Sports. It also includes Olympic-themed original content produced by all three parties, such as original programs produced by filmmakers from around the world commissioned by the global Olympic Channel; rich archival footage from the IOC and NBCU’s libraries of Olympic features and documentaries; and original Team USA programming produced by the USOC that provides authentic, wide-ranging and athlete-focused coverage of the Olympic Movement in the United States. Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA is live streamed on OlympicChannel.com, the Olympic Channel app, NBCSports.com, and the NBC Sports app. Select replays and highlights are available on these digital platforms as well as TeamUSA.org.

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