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Tuesday, September 11th, 2018

OLYMPIC CHANNEL: HOME OF TEAM USA PRESENTS LIVE COVERAGE OF NEW CURLING WORLD CUP THIS WEEK

Live Coverage from Suzhou, China, Begins Wednesday at 6:30 a.m. ET on Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA

STAMFORD, Conn. – Sept. 11, 2018 – NBC Sports presents 19 hours of coverage of the first leg of the Curling World Cup from Suzhou, China, beginning Wednesday at 6:30 a.m. ET on Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA, as the United States faces South Korea in mixed doubles action.

The Curling World Cup is a new, four-legged international curling series that begins in Suzhou before making stops in Omaha, Neb., in December, where 2018 Olympic gold medalist John Shuster is scheduled to skip the U.S. men, and Jonkoping, Sweden, in February. The Grand Final will take place in Beijing, the host of the 2022 Olympic Winter Games, in May 2019.

Each event will have competitions for men, women and mixed doubles, and each tournament will be played as a double round robin with two groups of four. The top seeds from each group will play in their respective finals. Winners from each of the first three legs will compete at the Grand Final in Beijing.

2018 Olympian Nina Roth, who skipped the United States at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, will represent the Americans in the women’s tournament. 2018 U.S. champion Rich Ruohenen skips the American men’s contingent, while reigning U.S. champions Sarah Anderson and Korey Dropkin, who finished fifth together at the 2015 World Championships, will compete in mixed doubles.

Coverage concludes with the mixed doubles final on Saturday, Sept. 15, at 8:30 p.m. ET on Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA, and the men’s and women’s finals on Monday, Sept. 17, across Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA., OlympicChannel.com and the Olympic Channel app.

All coverage that airs on Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA will be streamed on OlympicChannel.com and the Olympic Channel app.

Coverage of Olympic Sports on NBC Sports Group platforms is a presentation of the Olympic Channel, Home of Team USA.

*Same-Day Delay
All events airing on TV stream concurrently on OlympicChannel.com, Olympic Channel app, NBCSports.com and NBC Sports 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 World Curling Championships coverage airing on NBCSN and Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA. 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, PlayStation 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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