One year out: U.S. athletes already qualified for Rio 2016 Olympics; key dates

By Nick ZaccardiAug 5, 2015, 8:16 AM EDT

The 2016 U.S. Olympic team will include more than 500 athletes across 28 sports. Some athletes and teams have already booked spots for the Rio Games. Here’s a look:

Athletes

Name	Sport	Twitter Handle
Nathan Schrimsher	Modern Pentathlon	@pentnate5
Haley Anderson	Swimming	@swimhaley
Sean Ryan	Swimming	@seanryan92
Jordan Wilimovsky	Swimming	@j_wilimovsky
Gwen Jorgensen	Triathlon	@gwenjorgensen
Sarah True	Triathlon	@sgroffy

Teams
Archery — men
Basketball — men, women
Equestrian — dressage, eventing and jumping
Field Hockey — women
Rugby — men, women
Water Polo — men

Key Dates
Oct. 1-13 — CONCACAF men’s soccer qualifying tournament, U.S. cities
Oct. 26-31 — USA Boxing women’s trials, Memphis
Jan. 21-31 — CONCACAF women’s soccer qualifying tournament, TBA
Feb. 13 — USA Track and Field marathon trials, Los Angeles
April 8-10 — USA Wrestling trials, Iowa City
April 18-24 — US Rowing trials, Sarasota/Bradenton, Fla.
June 18-26 — USA Diving trials, Indianapolis
June 24-26 — USA Gymnastics men’s trials, St. Louis
June 26-July 3 — USA Swimming trials, Omaha
July 1-10 — USA Track and Field trials, Eugene, Ore.
July 8-10 — USA Gymnastics women’s trials, San Jose, Calif.
July 11 — Olympic golf rankings cutoff date

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After an Olympic medal, Ryan Cochran-Siegle sets new goal going into Beaver Creek

By OlympicTalkNov 30, 2022, 12:48 PM EST

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For all Ryan Cochran-Siegle accomplished in one special super-G last season — coming back from breaking his neck the year before in the world’s most daunting race to winning the U.S.’ lone Olympic Alpine skiing medal — he prefers to view that winter as a whole.

“It was kind of, I think, still a learning year,” he said in a recent interview. “I realize there was some definitely shortcomings as well [as success] with my races. I think I have a lot more to prove going forward.”

Notably, Cochran-Siegle said his downhill form wasn’t where he wanted it to be. After notching the U.S. men’s first World Cup downhill podium in nearly four years in the 2020-21 season, his best finish in the discipline last season before his Olympic super-G silver medal was sixth at Beaver Creek, Colorado, last December.

“I’d like to get my downhill skiing back to where it was the year prior,” he said. “I ended up doing well by the end of the year, but I think still missing the podium and all that, I’m trying to get more consistent.”

Cochran-Siegle returns to Beaver Creek for the annual Birds of Prey World Cup stop — airing on NBC Sports and Peacock this weekend — as the top hope to extend one American streak and to end one American drought.

The U.S. men’s Alpine team notched at least one World Cup podium every calendar year from 1999 through 2021. It was a regularity in the 2000s and early 2010s between Bode Miller and Ted Ligety. It hasn’t happened often recently, and not at all in 2022 with one month left. But there are plenty of opportunities, starting with a super-G on Friday and downhills Saturday and Sunday on home snow.

Americans often post their best results at Beaver Creek. Last year in a super-G, Travis Ganong picked up his first World Cup podium in nearly five years. In 2019, Tommy Ford earned his first World Cup victory in a giant slalom.

But it has been eight years (five races, more specifically) since an American made a downhill podium at Beaver Creek, the nation’s longest drought since it became an annual World Cup stop in 2004.

Cochran-Siegle opened the speed season last weekend in Lake Louise, Alberta, by posting the best American finish of ninth in a downhill. It was his best result ever at Lake Louise, but it wasn’t satisfying.

“As a team we recognize today was a little bit of a letdown all said and done,” he said, according to U.S. Ski and Snowboard. “I think we’re definitely more capable than that.”

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Figure skating TV, live stream schedule for 2022-23 season

By OlympicTalkNov 30, 2022, 7:17 AM EST

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NBC Sports, USA Network, E! and Peacock combine to air live coverage throughout the figure skating season, starting with Skate America in two weeks.

From October to April, the platforms will combine to air more than 200 hours of coverage, including the Grand Prix Series (October to December), the U.S. Championships in January and the world championships in March.

Peacock will live stream coverage of every event at those major competitions throughout the season.

All NBC, USA and E! coverage also streams on NBCSports.com/live and the NBC Sports app for subscribers.

Figure skating experienced more change this year than any other in recent history.

Russian skaters are banned indefinitely due to the war in Ukraine. None of the reigning Olympic gold medalists are entered in the fall Grand Prix Series. Yuzuru Hanyu, Alysa Liu and the ice dance couple of Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue retired.

Enter American Ilia Malinin, the 17-year-old world junior champion who last month became the first skater to land a clean, fully rotated quadruple Axel in competition. Malinin and Olympic silver medalist Yuma Kagiyama of Japan duel at Skate America, the first top-level event of the season.

The U.S. also has the top returning ice dance couple of Madison Chock and Evan Bates, reigning world pairs’ champions Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier and Isabeau Levito (15) and Lindsay Thorngren (16), who took gold and bronze at last season’s junior worlds.

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2022-23 Figure Skating Season Broadcast Schedule

Date	Competition	Time (ET)	Platform
Oct. 21	Skate America	7:20-8:45 p.m.	Peacock
Oct. 21	Skate America	7:30-10:30 p.m.	USA Network
Oct. 21	Skate America	8:45-10:30 p.m.	Peacock
Oct. 22	Skate America	2:40-4:15 p.m.	Peacock
Oct. 22	Skate America	3-6 p.m.	NBC
Oct. 22	Skate America	4:15-6 p.m.	Peacock
Oct. 22	Skate America	7:15-8:45 p.m.	Peacock
Oct. 22	Skate America	8-11 p.m.	USA Network
Oct. 22	Skate America	9-11 p.m.	Peacock
Oct. 23	Skate America	1-2:45 p.m.	Peacock
Oct. 23	Skate America	3-5 p.m.	Peacock
Oct. 23	Skate America	2-5 p.m.	E!
Oct. 28	Skate Canada	2-3:30 p.m.	Peacock
Oct. 28	Skate Canada	3:45-5:15 p.m.	Peacock
Oct. 28	Skate Canada	6:45-8 p.m.	Peacock
Oct. 28	Skate Canada	8-9:45 p.m.	Peacock
Oct. 29	Skate Canada	1:15-3:15 p.m.	Peacock
Oct. 29	Skate Canada	3:25-5 p.m.	Peacock
Oct. 29	Skate Canada	6-7:15 p.m.	Peacock
Oct. 29	Skate Canada	7:30-9:30 p.m.	Peacock
Oct. 30	Skate Canada	Noon-1:30 p.m.	NBC*
Nov. 4	Internationaux de France	8-9:30 a.m.	Peacock
Nov. 4	Internationaux de France	10-11:20 a.m.	Peacock
Nov. 4	Internationaux de France	11:45 a.m.-1:15 p.m.	Peacock
Nov. 4	Internationaux de France	1:45-3 p.m.	Peacock
Nov. 5	Internationaux de France	8-10 a.m.	Peacock
Nov. 5	Internationaux de France	10:10-11:45 a.m.	Peacock
Nov. 5	Internationaux de France	Noon-2 p.m.	Peacock
Nov. 5	Internationaux de France	2:10-3 p.m.	Peacock
Nov. 6	Internationaux de France	10 a.m.-Noon	E!*
Nov. 12	Internationaux de France	2:30-4 p.m.	NBC*
Nov. 11	Grand Prix: England	1-2:05 p.m.	Peacock
Nov. 11	Grand Prix: England	2:25-4 p.m.	Peacock
Nov. 12	Grand Prix: England	8:45-10 a.m.	Peacock
Nov. 12	Grand Prix: England	10:20 a.m.-Noon	Peacock
Nov. 12	Grand Prix: England	1:30-2:50 p.m.	Peacock
Nov. 12	Grand Prix: England	3-5 p.m.	Peacock
Nov. 13	Grand Prix: England	6:15-8:05 a.m.	Peacock
Nov. 13	Grand Prix: England	8:20-10 a.m.	Peacock
Nov. 13	Grand Prix: England	4-6 p.m.	NBC*
Nov. 17	NHK Trophy	10:30-11:40 p.m.	Peacock
Nov. 18	NHK Trophy	12:15-1:50 a.m.	Peacock
Nov. 18	NHK Trophy	2:15-3:35 a.m.	Peacock
Nov. 18	NHK Trophy	5-6:35 a.m.	Peacock
Nov. 18	NHK Trophy	10-11:20 p.m.	Peacock
Nov. 19	NHK Trophy	11:50 p.m.-1:40 a.m.	Peacock
Nov. 19	NHK Trophy	2:50-4:25 a.m.	Peacock
Nov. 19	NHK Trophy	5:30-7:20 a.m.	Peacock
Nov. 20	NHK Trophy	4-6 p.m.	NBC*
Nov. 25	Grand Prix: Finland	6-7:05 a.m.	Peacock
Nov. 25	Grand Prix: Finland	7:50-9:20 a.m.	Peacock
Nov. 25	Grand Prix: Finland	10:45 a.m.-12:20 p.m.	Peacock
Nov. 26	Grand Prix: Finland	12:40-2 p.m.	Peacock
Nov. 26	Grand Prix: Finland	5:45-7:05 a.m.	Peacock
Nov. 26	Grand Prix: Finland	7:20-9:10 a.m.	Peacock
Nov. 27	Grand Prix: Finland	11:15 a.m.-1:05 p.m.	Peacock
Nov. 27	Grand Prix: Finland	1:25-3 p.m.	Peacock
Nov. 27	Grand Prix: Finland	4-6 p.m.	NBC*
Dec. 8	Grand Prix Final (Torino)	1:15-2:15 p.m.	Peacock
Dec. 8	Grand Prix Final (Torino)	2:30-3:30 p.m.	Peacock
Dec. 9	Grand Prix Final (Torino)	11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m.	Peacock
Dec. 9	Grand Prix Final (Torino)	1:45-2:45 p.m.	Peacock
Dec. 9	Grand Prix Final (Torino)	3-4 p.m.	Peacock
Dec. 10	Grand Prix Final (Torino)	7:30-8:30 a.m.	Peacock
Dec. 10	Grand Prix Final (Torino)	6:30-7:30 a.m.	E!*
Dec. 10	Grand Prix Final (Torino)	7:30-8:30 a.m.	E!
Dec. 10	Grand Prix Final (Torino)	8:30-9:30 a.m.	E!*
Dec. 10	Grand Prix Final (Torino)	1:40-2:40 p.m.	Peacock
Dec. 10	Grand Prix Final (Torino)	3-4 p.m.	Peacock
Dec. 11	Grand Prix: Final (Torino)	3:30-6 p.m.	NBC*
Jan. 26	U.S. Championships	7-9 p.m.	USA Network
Jan. 26	U.S. Championships	9:30 p.m.-Midnight	Peacock
Jan. 26	U.S. Championships	10 p.m.-Midnight	USA Network
Jan. 27	U.S. Championships	4:30-7 p.m.	Peacock
Jan. 27	U.S. Championships	5-7 p.m.	USA Network
Jan. 27	U.S. Championships	8-11 p.m.	NBC
Jan. 28	U.S. Championships	2:30-4:30 p.m.	NBC
Jan. 28	U.S. Championships	5-7 p.m.	Peacock
Jan. 28	U.S. Championships	7-8 p.m.	Peacock
Jan. 28	U.S. Championships	8-10 p.m.	USA Network
Jan. 29	U.S. Championships	2:15-6 p.m.	Peacock
Jan. 29	U.S. Championships	3-6 p.m.	NBC
Feb. 5	U.S. Championships	4-6 p.m.	NBC*
Jan. 25	European Championships	5:15-8:30 a.m.	Peacock
Jan. 25	European Championships	10:20 a.m.-4 p.m.	Peacock
Jan. 25	European Championships	2-4 p.m.	E!
Jan. 26	European Championships	5-11 a.m.	Peacock
Jan. 26	European Championships	9-11 a.m.	E!
Jan. 26	European Championships	Noon-3 p.m.	Peacock
Jan. 27	European Championships	5-10 a.m.	Peacock
Jan. 27	European Championships	11 a.m.-3 p.m.	Peacock
Jan. 27	European Championships	1-3 p.m.	E!
Jan. 28	European Championships	6-10 a.m.	Peacock
Jan. 28	European Championships	8-10 a.m.	E!
Jan. 28	European Championships	11:30 a.m.-3 p.m.	Peacock
Feb. 5	European Championships	2-4 p.m.	NBC*
Feb. 9	Four Continents Championships	2-6 p.m.	Peacock
Feb. 9	Four Continents Championships	8 p.m.-Midnight	Peacock
Feb. 10	Four Continents Championships	8 a.m.-Noon	USA Network*
Feb. 10	Four Continents Championships	1:15-3:30 p.m.	Peacock
Feb. 10	Four Continents Championships	4:25-7 p.m.	Peacock
Feb. 10	Four Continents Championships	8 p.m.-Midnight	Peacock
Feb. 11	Four Continents Championships	Noon-2 p.m.	E!*
Feb. 11	Four Continents Championships	4:25-7 p.m.	Peacock
Feb. 11	Four Continents Championships	8 p.m.-Midnight	Peacock
Feb. 12	Four Continents Championships	11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.	E!*
Feb. 12	Four Continents Championships	3-6 p.m.	Peacock
Feb. 19	Four Continents Championships	Noon-2 p.m.	NBC*
Mar. 21	World Championships	9 p.m.-1 a.m.	Peacock
Mar. 22	World Championships	1:45-8 a.m.	Peacock
Mar. 22	World Championships	6-8 a.m.	USA Network
Mar. 22	World Championships	9 p.m.-1 a.m.	Peacock
Mar. 23	World Championships	1:45-8 a.m.	Peacock
Mar. 23	World Championships	6-8 a.m.	USA Network
Mar. 23	World Championships	8-10 a.m.	USA Network*
Mar. 23	World Championships	9:45 p.m.-3:15 a.m.	Peacock
Mar. 24	World Championships	4:15-8:30 a.m.	Peacock
Mar. 24	World Championships	6:30-8:30 a.m.	USA Network
Mar. 24	World Championships	11:30 p.m.-3 a.m.	Peacock
Mar. 25	World Championships	4:15-8:30 a.m.	Peacock
Mar. 25	World Championships	6:30-8:30 a.m.	Peacock
Mar. 25	World Championships	8-10 p.m.	NBC*
Apr. 9	World Championships	3-6 p.m.	NBC*
Apr. 4	World Synchronized Skating Championships	Noon-2 p.m.	USA Network*
*taped coverage

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