In honor of Thanksgiving, our friends at BuzzFeed decided to surprise several Olympians with a live turkey.
Watch your favorite Olympians practice their turkey calls, and even take selfies with the bird:
Athletes featured in the video:
Tori Bowie (Track & Field)
Matt Centrowitz (Track & Field)
Dawn Harper-Nelson (Track & Field)
Jenny Simpson (Track & Field)
Katelin Snyder (Rowing)
Mikaela Shiffrin‘s pursuit of her 50th World Cup win highlights this week’s winter sports coverage on NBC Sports and Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA and streaming on NBC Sports Gold.
Shiffrin, with 48 World Cup wins, is slated to race two of the four women’s World Cup events this week — a giant slalom and slalom in Courchevel, France, on Friday and Saturday. She is sitting out a downhill on Tuesday and a super-G on Wednesday in Val Gardena, Italy.
Only Lindsey Vonn (82), Annemarie Moser-Pröll (62) and Vreni Schneider (55) have more World Cup wins among women. Vonn is out until January after injuring a knee in a November training crash.
Shiffrin, a two-time Olympic champion, has five wins in the first nine events this season, including the last three in a row. With a slalom win Saturday, she will tie childhood idol Marlies Schild for the female record in the discipline with 35 victories.
U.S. Olympians are also in action among biathlon, freestyle skiing, Nordic combined and snowboarding World Cups.
ALPINE SKIING WORLD CUP — Austria, France, Italy
| Day | Time (ET) | Event | TV | Stream |
| Tuesday | 6:30 a.m. | Women’s Super-G | Olympic Channel | NBC Sports Gold |
| Wednesday | 4 a.m. | Men’s Giant Slalom (Run 1) | Olympic Channel | NBC Sports Gold | |
| 5:30 a.m. | Women’s Super-G | Olympic Channel | NBC Sports Gold | |
| 7 a.m. | Men’s Giant Slalom (Run 2) | Olympic Channel | NBC Sports Gold | ||
| 12:30 p.m.* | Men’s Giant Slalom | Olympic Channel | ||
| Thursday | 4 a.m. | Men’s Slalom (Run 1) | Olympic Channel | NBC Sports Gold | |
| 7 a.m. | Men’s Slalom (Run 2) | Olympic Channel | NBC Sports Gold | |
| Friday | 4:30 a.m. | Women’s Giant Slalom (Run 1) | Olympic Channel | NBC Sports Gold | |
| 7:30 a.m. | Women’s Giant Slalom (Run 2) | Olympic Channel | NBC Sports Gold | |
| 12 p.m.* | Women’s Giant Slalom | NBCSN | ||
| Saturday | 4:30 a.m. | Women’s Slalom (Run 1) | Olympic Channel | NBC Sports Gold | |
| 7:30 a.m. | Women’s Slalom (Run 2) | Olympic Channel | NBC Sports Gold | |
| 9:45 a.m. | Men’s Slalom (Run 1) | Olympic Channel | NBC Sports Gold | ||
| 12:30 p.m. | Men’s Slalom (Run 2) | Olympic Channel | NBC Sports Gold | |
| 2:30 p.m.* | Women’s Slalom | NBCSN | ||
| Sunday | 2:30 p.m.* | Women’s GS and Slalom | NBC |
*Delayed broadcast
All races stream live on NBC Sports Gold for “Snow Pass” subscribers and will have a replay of the event. Click here for more info.
BIATHLON WORLD CUP — Nove Mesto, Czech Republic
| Day | Time (ET) | Event | TV | Live stream |
| Thursday | 11:30 a.m. | Men’s 10km Sprint | Olympic Channel | NBC Sports Gold | |
| 3 p.m.* | Olympic Channel | |||
| Friday | 11:30 a.m. | Women’s 7.5km Sprint | Olympic Channel | NBC Sports Gold | |
| 1 p.m.* | NBCSN | |||
| Saturday | 9 a.m. | Men’s 12.5.km Pursuit | Olympic Channel | NBC Sports Gold | |
| 11 a.m. | Women’s 10km Pursuit | Olympic Channel | NBC Sports Gold | ||
| 2 p.m.* | Men’s 12.5km Pursuit | Olympic Channel | ||
| 3 p.m.* | Women’s 10km Pursuit | Olympic Channel | ||
| 6:30 p.m.* | Men’s 12.5km Pursuit | NBCSN | ||
| Sunday | 5:45 a.m. | Men’s 15km Mass Start | Olympic Channel | NBC Sports Gold | |
| 8:30 a.m. | Women’s 12.5km Mass Start | Olympic Channel | NBC Sports Gold | ||
| 1 p.m.* | Men’s 15km Mass Start | Olympic Channel | ||
| 2 p.m.* | Women’s 12.5km Mass Start | Olympic Channel |
*Same-day delay
All races stream live on NBC Sports Gold for “Snow Pass” subscribers and will have a replay of the event. Click here for more info.
FREESTYLE SKIING WORLD CUP — China, Italy
| Day | Time (ET) | Event | TV | Stream |
| Friday | 7:20 a.m. | Ski Cross | Olympic Channel | NBC Sports Gold | |
| 10 p.m. | Halfpipe | Olympic Channel | ||
| Saturday | 5:05 a.m. | Ski Cross | Olympic Channel | NBC Sports Gold |
All events stream live on NBC Sports Gold for “Snow Pass” subscribers and will have a replay of the event. Click here for more info.
NORDIC COMBINED WORLD CUP — Ramsau, Austria
| Day | Time (ET) | Event | TV | Stream |
| Saturday | 6 a.m. | HS98 | NBC Sports Gold | |
| 8:45 a.m. | 10km | NBC Sports Gold | ||
| Sunday | 4:30 a.m. | HS98 | NBC Sports Gold | |
| 6:30 a.m. | 10km | NBC Sports Gold |
All events stream live on NBC Sports Gold for “Snow Pass” subscribers and will have a replay of the event. Click here for more info.
SNOWBOARD WORLD CUP — China, Italy
| Day | Time (ET) | Event | TV | Stream |
| Thursday | 8:30 p.m. | Halfpipe | Olympic Channel | |
| 12 a.m. | Slopestyle | Olympic Channel | ||
| Friday | 5:30 a.m. | Snowboard Cross | Olympic Channel | NBC Sports Gold | |
| Saturday | 5:30 a.m. | Snowboard Cross | Olympic Channel | NBC Sports Gold |
All races stream live on NBC Sports Gold for “Snow Pass” subscribers and will have a replay of the event. Click here for more info.
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Shim Suk-Hee, an Olympic short track speed skating champion, said that her now-banned, ex-coach gave her a concussion that caused her to faint during the Olympics, according to South Korean media.
Shim’s former coach, Cho Jae-Beom, received a life ban from the Korean Skating Union and in September was sentenced to 10 months in jail for assaulting athletes between 2011 and 2018, according to the International Skating Union.
“Before the PyeongChang Olympics, he kicked and punched me so hard that I thought I was going to die,” a tearful Shim testified Monday in Cho’s trial appealing the sentence, according to a Yonhap News Agency translation. “I had a concussion afterward, and I fainted and fell down during the Olympics because of that.”
Cho was first suspended in January, less than a month before the PyeongChang Winter Games, after allegations arose. Shim reportedly said Monday that, among years of abuse, Cho secretly changed her skate blades before World Cup races leading up to the Olympics to improve the chances of another South Korean skater.
“When I was in fourth grade, I suffered broken fingers after getting struck by an ice hockey stick,” Shim said of Cho, whose attorneys called her allegations “preposterous,” according to Yonhap. “Once I got into middle school, he became even more violent. He dragged me into confined spaces to beat me up mercilessly, and other athletes suffered ruptured eardrums and other injuries.
“I hope he will be punished so severely so he won’t be able to do these things again.”
Shim earned relay gold medals at the last two Olympics, plus individual silver and bronze medals in Sochi. She was the 2014 World overall champion and the overall silver and bronze medalist the last two years.
She struggled in individual events in PyeongChang. In her lone final, she was disqualified after crashing with countrywoman Choi Min-Jeong on the last lap. Shim has a best individual finish of fourth in two World Cup stops this season.
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