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Wednesday, December 20th, 2017

2014 OLYMPIC FREESTYLE SKIING GOLD MEDALISTS DAVID WISE AND MADDIE BOWMAN HIGHLIGHT NBC SPORTS’ WINTER SPORTS COVERAGE THIS WEEKEND

Olympic Snowboarding Medalists Lindsey Jacobellis and Alex Deibold Headline Streaming Coverage of FIS Snowboarding World Cup Event from Cervinia, Italy, This Friday at 6 a.m. ET

2014 Olympian David Chodounsky Expected to Lead U.S. Men at FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup Event from Italy; Live Coverage Begins This Friday at 2:30 p.m. ET on Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA

Coverage Streamed on NBCSports.com, the NBC Sports app, OlympicChannel.com, and the Olympic Channel app

STAMFORD, Conn. – December 20, 2017 – NBC Sports Group will present more than 25 hours of Olympic winter sports coverage this weekend across NBC, Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA, NBCSports.com, the NBC Sports app, OlympicChannel.com, and the Olympic Channel app, featuring highlights from the 2017 Dew Tour’s men’s and women’s freestyle skiing competitions from Breckenridge, Colo., on NBC.

Top U.S. athletes and PyeongChang Winter Olympic hopefuls slated to participate this weekend throughout NBC Sports’ Olympic winter sports coverage include:

  • 2014 Olympic freestyle skiing gold medalists David Wise and Maddie Bowman
  • 2014 Olympic freestyle skiing silver medalist Devin Logan
  • 2014 Olympic freestyle skier Torin Yater-Wallace
  • 2006 Olympic snowboarding silver medalist Lindsey Jacobellis
  • 2014 Olympic snowboarding bronze medalist Alex Deibold
  • 2014 Olympic alpine skier David Chodounsky

This week’s coverage also features alpine skiing from Madonna di Campiglio in Italy and freestyle skiing moguls from Thaiwoo, China, ski cross from Innichen, Italy and halfpipe from Beijing, China; and snowboarding from Cervinia, Italy.

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DEW TOUR BRECKENRIDGE 2017

COVERAGE BEGINS SUNDAY AT 2 P.M. ET ON NBC

NBC Sports’ coverage of the 2017 Dew Tour from Breckenridge kicks off this Sunday at 2 p.m. ET on NBC. The competition serves as one of the U.S. Olympic team qualifying events for snowboarding and freestyle skiing.

Competitors include 2014 Olympic freestyle skiing gold medalist David Wise, who won the Toyota U.S. Grand Prix earlier this month in Copper Mountain, Colo., Torin Yater-Wallace, who won the first Olympic qualifier last February, 2014 Olympic freestyle skiing gold medalist Maddie Bowman, 2014 Olympic freestyle skiing silver medalist Devin Logan, and Maggie Voisin.

Todd Harris hosts coverage on NBC from Breckenridge Ski Resort. Harris will be joined by Luke Van Valin (analyst), Todd Richards (analyst), and Tina Dixon (reporter).


FIS ALPINE SKIING WORLD CUP

LIVE COVERAGE CONTINUES FRIDAY AT 2:30 P.M. ET ON OLYMPIC CHANNEL: HOME OF TEAM USA

Coverage of the men’s alpine skiing season on Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA continues this Friday at 2:30 p.m. ET from Madonna di Campiglio, Italy, with live coverage of the men’s slalom under the lights. 2014 Olympian David Chodounsky is expected to lead the Americans, while six-time overall World Cup champion Marcel Hirscher of Austria, who is going for his second-straight slalom victory, is the favorite to win the event but should receive strong competition from Sochi bronze medalist Henrik Kristoffersen of Norway.

Steve Schlanger (play-by-play) and Steve Porino (analyst) will call Friday’s action.

Date Time (ET) Coverage
Fri., Dec. 22 11:45 a.m. Men’s Slalom – Madonna di Campiglio, Italy (Run 1)*
Fri., Dec. 22 2:30 p.m. Men’s Slalom – Madonna di Campiglio, Italy (Run 2) (LIVE)

*Streaming on OlympicChannel.com and the Olympic Channel app


FIS FREESTYLE SKIING WORLD CUP
LIVE COVERAGE BEGINS THURSDAY AT 12:30 A.M. ET ON OLYMPIC CHANNEL: HOME OF TEAM USA

Coverage of the FIS Freestyle Skiing World Cup season continues this Thursday and Friday with live coverage of moguls competition from Thaiwoo, China, and live coverage of ski cross events from Innichen, Italy. Both competitions will serve as qualification events for the U.S. Olympic Team.

Jaelin Kauf, who was the top American woman at the Ruka World Cup earlier this month, and 20-year-old Emerson Smith are expected to highlight the moguls competition. The ski cross competition is likely to feature Tania Prymak, who aims to become the first U.S. woman to compete in the Olympic Winter Games in ski cross, and Brant Crossan, who placed 12th at last season’s World Championships.

Trace Worthington will provide commentary alongside analyst Luke Van Valin.

Date Time (ET) Coverage
Thurs., Dec. 21 12:30 a.m. Moguls – Thaiwoo, China (LIVE)
Thurs., Dec. 21 7:30 a.m. Ski Cross – Innichen, Italy (LIVE)
Thurs., Dec. 21 11 p.m. Halfpipe – Beijing, China*
Fri., Dec. 22 12:30 a.m. Moguls – Thaiwoo, China (LIVE)
Fri., Dec. 22 7:30 a.m. Ski Cross – Innichen, Italy (LIVE)
Sat., Dec. 23 6:30 a.m. Slopestyle – Font Romeu, France*

*Streaming on OlympicChannel.com and the Olympic Channel app


FIS SNOWBOARDING WORLD CUP
LIVE STREAMING COVERAGE BEGINS WEDNESDAY AT 11 P.M. ET

2006 Olympic silver medalist and five-time world champion Lindsey Jacobellis, who has already mathematically qualified for the PyeongChang Games, is expected to headline the American women in snowboard cross. 26-year-old Hagen Kearney and 2014 Olympic bronze medalist Alex Deibold are expected to lead the American men, along with Jonathan Cheever.

This week’s events in Cervinia, Italy, will serve as qualifiers for the U.S. Olympic Team. Podium finishes are integral in earning a spot on the 2018 U.S. Olympic team.

Date Time (ET) Coverage
Wed., Dec. 20 11 p.m. Halfpipe – Beijing, China*
Fri., Dec. 22 6 a.m. Snowboard Cross – Cervinia, Italy*

*Streaming on OlympicChannel.com and the Olympic Channel app


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.

–NBC SPORTS GROUP–