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Thursday, October 25th, 2018

SIMONE BILES HEADLINES NBC SPORTS’ LIVE COVERAGE OF 2018 WORLD GYMNASTICS CHAMPIONSHIPS BEGINNING TOMORROW, FRIDAY, OCT. 26

Live TV Coverage Begins with the Men’s Team Final Monday at 9 a.m. ET & Continues Throughout the Week on Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA

Top Three Nations in Team Finals Automatically Qualify for 2020 Tokyo Olympics

Live Qualifying Action Continues Through This Sunday on NBCSports.com, NBC Sports app, OlympicChannel.com, and the Olympic Channel app

NBC & NBCSN to Present Encore Coverage

STAMFORD, Conn. – October 25, 2018 – Five-time Olympic medalist Simone Biles (four gold and one bronze in Rio) competes for a record-breaking fourth women’s all-around title this week as NBC Sports kicks off live coverage of the 2018 World Gymnastics Championships from Doha, Qatar. Live TV coverage begins Monday, Oct. 29, at 9 a.m. ET with the men’s team final on Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA, and continues throughout the week, concluding with the live apparatus finals Saturday, Nov. 3, at 9 a.m. ET on Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA.

NBCSN will present encore coverage of the women’s all-around final (Thursday, Nov. 1, at 8 p.m. ET) and men’s and women’s apparatus finals (Friday, Nov. 2, at 10 pm. ET and Saturday, Nov. 3, at 10 p.m. ET). In addition, NBC will present a three-hour highlight show on Sunday, Nov. 4, at 3 p.m. ET. Coverage of all events, including qualifying, will be streamed live on NBCSports.com and NBC Sports app.

In addition to a record fourth all-around title, Biles can pass Vitaly Scherbo for the most golds in World Gymnastics Championships history if she earns three (she earned four apiece in 2014 and 2015). With a medal in all six events, Biles would also tie Svetlana Khorkina for the most world medals by a woman.

The U.S. women’s team also features 2017 world all-around champion Morgan Hurd. The U.S. men are led by two-time Olympian Sam Mikulak, who is seeking his first individual world medal, and 2017 U.S. all-around champion and defending world floor exercise bronze medalist Yul Moldauer.

The top three nations in Monday’s and Tuesday’s team finals will automatically qualify for spots for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Terry Gannon calls the action, joined by Olympic gold medalist Tim Daggett and 2008 Olympic all-around champion Nastia Liukin.

All content on the Olympic Channel is also available to livestream on NBCSports.com, NBC Sports App, OlympicChannel.com, and the Olympic Channel app.

Below is the schedule for NBC Sports Group’s coverage of the 2018 World Gymnastics Championships:

Day Time (ET) Event Network
Friday, Oct. 26 2-4 a.m. U.S. Men’s Qualifying (LIVE) NBCSports.com, NBC Sports app
 Friday, Oct. 26 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Men’s Qualifying (LIVE) NBCSports.com, NBC Sports app
 Friday, Oct. 26 1-3 p.m. Men’s Qualifying (LIVE) NBCSports.com, NBC Sports app
Saturday, Oct. 27 4-5:30 a.m. Women’s Qualifying (LIVE) NBCSports.com, NBC Sports app
 Saturday, Oct. 27 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. U.S. Women’s Qualifying   (LIVE) NBCSports.com, NBC Sports app
Sunday, Oct. 28 2-3:30 a.m. Women’s Qualifying (LIVE) NBCSports.com, NBC Sports app
 Sunday, Oct. 28 4-5:30 a.m. Women’s Qualifying (LIVE) NBCSports.com, NBC Sports app
 Sunday, Oct. 28 6:30-8 a.m. Women’s Qualifying (LIVE) NBCSports.com, NBC Sports app
Monday, Oct. 29 9 a.m.-12 p.m. Men’s Team Final (LIVE) Olympic Channel: Home of   Team USA
Tuesday, Oct. 30 9-11 a.m. Women’s Team Final (LIVE) Olympic Channel: Home of   Team USA
Wednesday, Oct. 31 9 a.m.-12 p.m. Men’s All-Around Final (LIVE) Olympic Channel: Home of Team   USA
Thursday, Nov. 1 9-11 a.m. Women’s All-Around Final (LIVE) Olympic Channel: Home of   Team USA
Thursday, Nov. 1 8-10 p.m. Women’s All-Around NBCSN
Friday, Nov. 2 9 a.m.-12 p.m. Apparatus Finals (LIVE) Olympic Channel: Home of   Team USA
Friday, Nov. 2 10 p.m.-12 a.m. Apparatus Finals NBCSN
Saturday, Nov. 3 9 a.m.-12 p.m. Apparatus Finals (LIVE) Olympic Channel: Home of   Team USA
Saturday, Nov. 3 10 p.m.-12 a.m. Apparatus Finals NBCSN
Sunday, Nov. 4 3-6 p.m. World Gymnastics   Championships NBC

NBCSports.com and the NBC Sports app — NBC Sports Group’s live streaming product for desktops, mobile devices, tablets, and connected TVs — will stream coverage via “TV Everywhere,” giving consumers additional value for their subscription service, and making high quality content available to MVPD customers both in and out of the home and on multiple platforms. The NBC Sports app is available on Apple iOS, Android and select Samsung devices, as well as on Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Chromecast, Comcast’s X1, 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–

Dan Masonson

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Devan Schulte

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