Toyota U.S. Grand Prix Highlights NBC Sports Coverage This Week
U.S. Snowboard and Freeski Team halfpipe athletes return to the friendly confines of the Copper Mountain’s 22-foot superpipe for the opening Toyota U.S. Grand Prix this week at the Colorado resort, and the networks of NBC will be there broadcast all the action. In fact, NBC is scheduled to stream and broadcast more than 50 hours of Olympic winter sports from Colorado, France, Switzerland, Germany, and Norway Dec. 7-10.
The finals of both Grand Prix events will be streamed and broadcast live on the networks of NBC, including NBC Sports Network and NBC Sports Gold for Friday’s freeski finals and Saturday’s snowboard finals. This weekend’s Grand Prix events also serve as the opening FIS Snowboard and Freeski World Cup halfpipe events for the 2018-19 season and NBC will broadcast a pair of one-hour Grand Prix recap shows Saturday (freeski) and Sunday (snowboard) afternoons.
Fresh off her historic 46th career FIS Ski World Cup victory, which was also her first career World Cup super-G win, Sunday at Lake Louise, Alberta, Mikaela Shiffrin (Avon, Colo.) and teammates return to Europe for the remainder of the competition season. But American fans will only have to reach for their mobile device or remote control to watch this weekend’s super-G and parallel women’s World Cup events in St. Moritz, Switzerland. On the men's side, Ted Ligety (Park City, Utah) leads the tech team in the second World Cup giant slalom and slalom events of the season in Val d’Isere, France. All alpine events this weekend will be streamed and broadcast on NBC Sports Network, the Olympic Channel and NBC Sports Gold.
Jaelin Kauf (Alta, Wyo.), Tess Johnson (Vail, Colo.), Casey Andringa (Vail, Colo.) and Bradley Wilson (Park City, Utah) lead the U.S. Freestyle Ski Team moguls athletes as they kick off their World Cup season in Ruka, Finland, this weekend. Both the Olympic Channel and NBC Sports Gold will carry live coverage on Friday, starting at 9:20 a.m. EST.
Fresh of a string of three top-10 World Cup results, including a third-place sprint finish in Lillehammer, Norway, last weekend, Sadie Bjornsen (Winthrop, Wash.) joins her U.S. Cross Country Ski Team teammate Jessie Diggins (Afton, Minn.) to compete in a 15k freestyle Saturday and a 4x5k team relay in Beitostølen, Norway, Sunday. Erik Bjornsen (Winthrop, Wash.) and Simi Hamilton (Aspen, Colo.) are scheduled to participate in the men’s 30k freestyle and a 4x7.5k team relay. All events will be streamed/broadcast live on the Olympic Channel and NBC Sports Gold.
USA Nordic/U.S. Ski Team ski jumpers, unfortunately, will have to wait another week before the next FIS Ski Jumping World Cup event as this weekend's large hill competition in Titisee-Neustadt, Germany has been canceled due to unfavorable weather conditions.
HOW TO WATCH
All times EST.
Preliminary schedule, subject to change
*Same-day delayed broadcast
**Next-day broadcast
ALPINE
Saturday, Dec. 8
3:45 a.m. - Men’s giant slalom, run 1 - Val d’Isere, FRA - OlympicChannel.com & NBC Sports Gold
5:00 a.m. - Women’s super-G, St. Moritz, SUI - Olympic Channel-TV, OlympicChannel.com & NBC Sports Gold
6:45 a.m. - Men’s giant slalom, run 2 - Val d’Isere, FRA - OlympicChannel.com & NBC Sports Gold
7:00 a.m. - Men’s giant slalom, run 2 - Val d’Isere, FRA - Olympic Channel-TV
Sunday, Dec. 9
12:30 a.m. - Women’s super-G, St. Moritz, SUI - NBCSN-TV**
3:15 a.m. - Men’s slalom, run 1 - Val d’Isere, FRA - OlympicChannel.com & NBC Sports Gold
4:15 a.m. - Women’s parallel slalom qualifying, St. Moritz, SUI - OlympicChannel.com & NBC Sports Gold
6:15 a.m. - Men’s slalom, run 2 - Val d’Isere, FRA - Olympic Channel-TV, OlympicChannel.com & NBC Sports Gold
7:00 a.m. - Women’s parallel slalom, St. Moritz, SUI - OlympicChannel.com & NBC Sports Gold
7:30 a.m. - Women’s parallel slalom, St. Moritz, SUI - Olympic Channel-TV
5:00 a.m. - Women’s parallel slalom, St. Moritz, SUI - NBCSN-TV*
FREESKI
Friday, Dec. 7
1:00 p.m. - Men and women’s halfpipe, Copper Mountain, Colo. - NBCSN-TV, NBCSports.com & NBC Sports Gold
Saturday, Dec. 8
4:30 p.m. - Men and women’s halfpipe, Copper Mountain, Colo. - NBC**
FREESTYLE
Friday, Dec. 7
9:20 a.m. - Men and women’s moguls, Ruka, FIN - OlympicChannel.com & NBC Sports Gold
3:00 p.m. - Men and women’s moguls, Ruka, FIN - Olympic Channel-TV*
CROSS COUNTRY
Saturday, Dec. 8
3:20 a.m. - Women’s 15k interval, Beitostølen, NOR - OlympicChannel.com & NBC Sports Gold
6:05 a.m. - Men’s 30k interval, Beitostølen, NOR - OlympicChannel.com & NBC Sports Gold
8:30 a.m. - Women’s 15k interval, Beitostølen, NOR - Olympic Channel-TV*
Sunday, Dec. 9
4:20 a.m. - Women’s team relay, Beitostølen, NOR - OlympicChannel.com & NBC Sports Gold
7:20 a.m. - Men’s team relay, Beitostølen, NOR - OlympicChannel.com & NBC Sports Gold
4:00 p.m. - Women’s team relay, Beitostølen, NOR - Olympic Channel-TV*
SNOWBOARD
Saturday, Dec. 8
1:00 p.m. - Men and women’s halfpipe, Copper Mountain, Colo. - NBCSN-TV, NBCSports.com & NBC Sports Gold
Sunday, Dec. 9
12:30 p.m. - Men and women’s halfpipe, Copper Mountain, Colo. - NBC**
Fans can catch all the action in spectacular high definition via NBC Sports online at NBCSports.com/Live or through the NBC Sports app which is available on the iTunes App Store, Google Play, Windows Store, Roku Channel Store, Apple TV and Amazon Fire. Exclusive commercial-free coverage will be available for subscribers of the NBC Sports Gold Pass, available here: https://www.nbcsports.com/gold/snow
