Tour de France broadcast schedule

By Nick ZaccardiJun 29, 2017, 4:50 PM EDT

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The 104th Tour de France, from July 1-23, starts in Germany, hits all five French continental mountain ranges among 21 stages and finishes with the ceremonial ride into Paris.

NBC, NBCSN and NBC Sports Gold combine to air daily live coverage of cycling’s most prestigious Grand Tour, with a record 280 hours of live, primetime and encore coverage. With 30-plus hours of exclusive bonus HD coverage on NBC Sports Gold, fans will not miss a single moment of the Tour.

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The favorite has to be Chris Froome, the only cyclist to own multiple Tour de France titles and multiple Olympic medals.

The Kenyan-born Brit eyes his fourth Tour victory in five years. That would move him one shy of the record for Tour wins shared by Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault and Miguel Indurain.

Froome’s top challengers include Colombian Nairo Quintana, seeking to become the first non-European cyclist to win all three Grand Tours. Quintana took the Giro d’Italia in 2014 and the Vuelta a Espana last year. He also finished second or third behind Froome in all three of his Tour de France starts.

There’s also Froome’s former Team Sky mate, Richie Porte, and seven-time Grand Tour winner Alberto Contador in what may be his farewell Tour.

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DAY	TIME (ET)	STAGE	NETWORK
Sat., July 1	6:30 a.m.	Tour de France Preview Show	NBCSN
Sat., July 1	7:30 a.m.	Tour de France Pre-Race Show	NBCSN
Sat., July 1	9 a.m.	Stage 1: Düsseldorf – Düsseldorf (LIVE)	NBCSN, NBC Sports Gold
Sat., July 1	8 p.m.	Stage 1: Düsseldorf – Düsseldorf	NBCSN
Sat., July 1	Midnight	Stage 1: Düsseldorf – Düsseldorf	NBCSN
Sun., July 2	5:55 a.m.	Stage 2: Düsseldorf – Liège (LIVE)	*NBC Sports Gold*
Sun., July 2	7:30 a.m.	Tour de France Pre-Race Show	NBCSN
Sun., July 2	8 a.m.	Stage 2: Düsseldorf – Liège (LIVE)	NBCSN
Sun., July 2	8 p.m.	Stage 2: Düsseldorf – Liège	NBCSN
Sun., July 2	Midnight	Stage 2: Düsseldorf – Liège	NBCSN
Mon., July 3	6:10 a.m.	Stage 3: Verviers – Longwy (LIVE)	*NBC Sports Gold*
Mon., July 3	7:30 a.m.	Tour de France Pre-Race Show	NBCSN
Mon., July 3	8 a.m.	Stage 3: Verviers – Longwy (LIVE)	NBCSN
Mon., July 3	Noon	Stage 3: Verviers – Longwy	NBCSN
Mon., July 3	8 p.m.	Stage 3: Verviers – Longwy	NBCSN
Mon., July 3	Midnight	Stage 3: Verviers – Longwy	NBCSN
Tues., July 4	6:05 a.m.	Stage 4: Mondorf-les-Bains – Vittel (LIVE)	*NBC Sports Gold*
Tues., July 4	7:30 a.m.	Tour de France Pre-Race Show	NBCSN
Tues., July 4	8 a.m.	Stage 4: Mondorf-les-Bains – Vittel (LIVE)	NBCSN
Tues., July 4	Noon	Stage 4: Mondorf-les-Bains – Vittel	NBCSN
Tues., July 4	2:30 p.m.	Stage 4: Mondorf-les-Bains – Vittel	NBCSN
Tues., July 4	8 p.m.	Stage 4: Mondorf-les-Bains – Vittel	NBCSN
Tues., July 4	Midnight	Stage 4: Mondorf-les-Bains – Vittel	NBCSN
Wed., July 5	7 a.m.	Tour de France Pre-Race Show	NBCSN
Wed., July 5	7:05 a.m.	Stage 5: Vittel – La Planche de Belles Filles (LIVE)	*NBC Sports Gold*
Wed., July 5	7:30 a.m.	Stage 5: Vittel – La Planche de Belles Filles (LIVE)	NBCSN
Wed., July 5	Noon	Stage 5: Vittel – La Planche de Belles Filles	NBCSN
Wed., July 5	2:30 p.m.	Stage 5: Vittel – La Planche de Belles Filles	NBCSN
Wed., July 5	8 p.m.	Stage 5: Vittel – La Planche de Belles Filles	NBCSN
Wed., July 5	Midnight	Stage 5: Vittel – La Planche de Belles Filles	NBCSN
Thurs., July 6	6 a.m.	Stage 6: Vesoul – Troyes (LIVE)	*NBC Sports Gold*
Thurs., July 6	7:30 a.m.	Tour de France Pre-Race Show	NBCSN
Thurs., July 6	8 a.m.	Stage 6: Vesoul – Troyes (LIVE)	NBCSN
Thurs., July 6	Noon	Stage 6: Vesoul – Troyes	NBCSN
Thurs., July 6	8 p.m.	Stage 6: Vesoul – Troyes	NBCSN
Thurs., July 6	Midnight	Stage 6: Vesoul – Troyes	NBCSN
Fri., July 7	6 a.m.	Stage 7: Troyes – Nuits-Saint-Georges (LIVE)	*NBC Sports Gold*
Fri., July 7	7:30 a.m.	Tour de France Pre-Race Show	NBCSN
Fri., July 7	8 a.m.	Stage 7: Troyes – Nuits-Saint-Georges (LIVE)	NBCSN
Fri., July 7	11:45a	Stage 7: Troyes – Nuits-Saint-Georges	NBCSN
Sat., July 8	1:30 a.m.	Stage 7: Troyes – Nuits-Saint-Georges	NBCSN
Sat., July 8	6:05 a.m.	Stage 8: Dole – Sation des Rousses (LIVE)	*NBC Sports Gold*
Sat., July 8	8 a.m.	Stage 8: Dole – Sation des Rousses (LIVE)	NBC
Sun., July 9	5:40 a.m.	Stage 9: Dole – Nantua – Chambéry (LIVE)	*NBC Sports Gold*
Sun., July 9	6:30 a.m.	Tour de France Pre-Race Show	NBCSN
Sun., July 9	7 a.m.	Stage 9: Dole – Nantua – Chambéry (LIVE)	NBCSN
Sun., July 9	Noon	Stage 9: Nantua – Chambéry	NBCSN
Sun., July 9	3 p.m.	Stage 9: Nantua – Chambéry	NBC
Sun., July 9	9:30 p.m.	Stage 9: Nantua – Chambéry	NBCSN
Mon., July 10	8 a.m.	Rest Day Programming	NBCSN
Mon., July 10	9:30 a.m.	Rest Day Programming	NBCSN
Mon., July 10	8 p.m.	Rest Day Programming	NBCSN
Mon., July 10	Midnight	Rest Day Programming	NBCSN
Tues., July 11	7:05 a.m.	Stage 10: Périgueux – Bergerac (LIVE)	*NBC Sports Gold*
Tues., July 11	7:30 a.m.	Tour de France Pre-Race Show	NBCSN
Tues., July 11	8 a.m.	Stage 10: Périgueux – Bergerac (LIVE)	NBCSN
Tues., July 11	Noon	Stage 10: Périgueux – Bergerac	NBCSN
Tues., July 11	2:30 p.m.	Stage 10: Périgueux – Bergerac	NBCSN
Tues., July 11	8 p.m.	Stage 10: Périgueux – Bergerac	NBCSN
Tues., July 11	Midnight	Stage 10: Périgueux – Bergerac	NBCSN
Wed., July 12	6:55 a.m.	Stage 11: Eymet – Pau (LIVE)	*NBC Sports Gold*
Wed., July 12	7:30 a.m.	Tour de France Pre-Race Show	NBCSN
Wed., July 12	8 a.m.	Stage 11: Eymet – Pau (LIVE)	NBCSN
Wed., July 12	12:30 p.m.	Stage 11: Eymet – Pau	NBCSN
Wed., July 12	2:30 p.m.	Stage 11: Eymet – Pau	NBCSN
Wed., July 12	8 p.m.	Stage 11: Eymet – Pau	NBCSN
Wed., July 12	Midnight	Stage 11: Eymet – Pau	NBCSN
Thurs., July 13	4:50 a.m.	Stage 12: Pau – Peryagudes (LIVE)	*NBC Sports Gold*
Thurs., July 13	7 a.m.	Tour de France Pre-Race Show	NBCSN
Thurs., July 13	7:30 a.m.	Stage 12: Pau – Peryagudes (LIVE)	NBCSN
Thurs., July 13	Noon	Stage 12: Pau – Peryagudes	NBCSN
Thurs., July 13	2:30 p.m.	Stage 12: Pau – Peryagudes	NBCSN
Thurs., July 13	8 p.m.	Stage 12: Pau – Peryagudes	NBCSN
Thurs., July 13	Midnight	Stage 12: Pau – Peryagudes	NBCSN
Fri., July 14	7:30 a.m.	Tour de France Pre-Race Show	NBCSN
Fri., July 14	8:30 a.m.	Stage 13: Saint Girons – Foix (LIVE)	NBCSN, NBC Sports Gold
Fri., July 14	8 p.m.	Stage 13: Saint Girons – Foix	NBCSN
Fri., July 14	Midnight	Stage 13: Saint Girons – Foix	NBCSN
Sat., July 15	6:55 a.m.	Stage 14: Blagnac – Rodez (LIVE)	*NBC Sports Gold*
Sat., July 15	7:30 a.m.	Tour de France Pre-Race Show	NBCSN
Sat., July 15	8 a.m.	Stage 14: Blagnac – Rodez (LIVE)	NBCSN
Sat., July 15	8 p.m.	Stage 14: Blagnac – Rodez	NBCSN
Sat., July 15	Midnight	Stage 14: Blagnac – Rodez	NBCSN
Sun., July 16	6:55 a.m.	Stage 15: Laissac-Sévérac l’Église – Le Puy-en-Velay (LIVE)	*NBC Sports Gold*
Sun., July 16	7 a.m.	Tour de France Pre-Race Show	NBCSN
Sun., July 16	7:30 a.m.	Stage 15: Laissac-Sévérac l’Église – Le Puy-en-Velay (LIVE)	NBCSN
Sun., July 16	11:30 p.m.	Stage 15: Laissac-Sévérac l’Église – Le Puy-en-Velay	NBCSN
Mon., July 17	7:30 a.m.	Rest Day Programming	NBCSN
Mon., July 17	10:30 a.m.	Rest Day Programming	NBCSN
Mon., July 17	8 p.m.	Rest Day Programming	NBCSN
Mon., July 17	Midnight	Rest Day Programming	NBCSN
Tues., July 18	7:25 a.m.	Stage 16: Le Puy-en-Velay – Romans-sur-Isère (LIVE)	*NBC Sports Gold*
Tues., July 18	7:30 a.m.	Tour de France Pre-Race Show	NBCSN
Tues., July 18	8 a.m.	Stage 16: Le Puy-en-Velay – Romans-sur-Isère (LIVE)	NBCSN
Tues., July 18	2 p.m.	Stage 16: Le Puy-en-Velay – Romans-sur-Isère	NBCSN
Tues., July 18	8 p.m.	Stage 16: Le Puy-en-Velay – Romans-sur-Isère	NBCSN
Tues., July 18	Midnight	Stage 16: Le Puy-en-Velay – Romans-sur-Isère	NBCSN
Wed., July 19	6 a.m.	Stage 17: Le Murre – Serre Chavalier (LIVE)	NBCSN, NBC Sports Gold
Wed., July 19	2 p.m.	Stage 17: Le Murre – Serre Chavalier	NBCSN
Wed., July 19	8 p.m.	Stage 17: Le Murre – Serre Chavalier	NBCSN
Wed., July 19	Midnight	Stage 17: Le Murre – Serre Chavalier	NBCSN
Thurs., July 20	6:40 a.m.	Stage 18: Briançon – Izoard (LIVE)	*NBC Sports Gold*
Thurs., July 20	7 a.m.	Tour de France Pre-Race Show	NBCSN
Thurs., July 20	7:30 a.m.	Stage 18: Briançon – Izoard (LIVE)	NBCSN
Thurs., July 20	Noon	Stage 18: Briançon – Izoard	NBCSN
Thurs., July 20	2 p.m.	Stage 18: Briançon – Izoard	NBCSN
Thurs., July 20	8 p.m.	Stage 18: Briançon – Izoard	NBCSN
Thurs., July 20	Midnight	Stage 18: Briançon – Izoard	NBCSN
Fri., July 21	6:10 a.m.	Stage 19: Embrun – Salon de Provence (LIVE)	*NBC Sports Gold*
Fri., July 21	7:30 a.m.	Tour de France Pre-Race Show	NBCSN
Fri., July 21	8 a.m.	Stage 19: Embrun – Salon de Provence (LIVE)	NBCSN
Fri., July 21	Noon	Stage 19: Embrun – Salon de Provence	NBCSN
Fri., July 21	8 p.m.	Stage 19: Embrun – Salon de Provence	NBCSN
Fri., July 21	Midnight	Stage 19: Embrun – Salon de Provence	NBCSN
Sat., July 22	7:30 a.m.	Tour de France Pre-Race Show	NBCSN
Sat., July 22	7:40 a.m.	Stage 20: Marseille – Marseille (LIVE)	*NBC Sports Gold*
Sat., July 22	8 a.m.	Stage 20: Marseille – Marseille (LIVE)	NBCSN
Sat., July 22	3 p.m.	Stage 20: Marseille – Marseille	NBC
Sat., July 22	8 p.m.	Stage 20: Marseille – Marseille	NBCSN
Sun., July 23	7 a.m.	Stage 20: Marseille – Marseille	NBCSN
Sun., July 23	10 a.m.	Tour de France Pre-Race Show	NBCSN
Sun., July 23	10:30 a.m.	Stage 21: Montgeron – Paris Champs-Élysées (LIVE)	NBCSN, NBC Sports Gold
Sun., July 23	8 p.m.	Stage 21: Montgeron – Paris Champs-Élysées	NBCSN

Mikaela Shiffrin finishes World Cup with one more win, two more records and a revelation

By OlympicTalkMar 21, 2023, 12:00 PM EDT

Mikaela Shiffrin finished a season defined by records with two more.

Shiffrin won the World Cup Finals giant slalom on the final day of the campaign, breaking her ties for the most career women’s giant slalom wins and most career podiums across all women’s World Cup races.

Shiffrin earned her record-extending 88th career World Cup victory, prevailing by six hundredths over Thea Louise Stjernesund of Norway combining times from two runs in Andorra on Sunday.

An encore of Shiffrin’s record-breaking 87th World Cup win airs on NBC next Sunday from 12-1 p.m. ET.

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She won her 21st career GS, breaking her tie for the most all-time on the women’s World Cup with Vreni Schneider, a Swiss star of the 1980s and ’90s.

She made her 138th career World Cup podium across all events, breaking her tie for the most all-time on the women’s World Cup with Lindsey Vonn. Shiffrin earned her 138th podium in her 249th start, meaning she has finished in the top three in 55 percent of her World Cup races dating to her debut at age 15 in 2011.

Earlier this season, Shiffrin passed Vonn and then Ingemar Stenmark, a Swede of the 1970s and ’80s, for the most career Alpine skiing World Cup victories. She won 14 times from November through March, her second-best season after her record 17-win campaign of 2018-19.

In those years in between, Shiffrin endured the most difficult times of her life, was supplanted as the world’s top slalom skier and questioned her skiing like never before.

On Saturday afternoon, Shiffrin was asked what made the difference this fall and winter. There were multiple factors. She detailed one important one.

“I had a lot of problems with my memory,” she said in a press conference. “Not this season, so much, but last season and the season before that. I couldn’t remember courses. And when I was kind of going through this, I couldn’t keep mental energy for the second runs.”

Pre-race course inspection and the ability to retain that knowledge for a minute-long run over an hour later is integral to success in ski racing. Shiffrin is so meticulous and methodical in her training, historically prioritizing it over racing in her junior days, that inspection would seem to fit into her all-world preparation.

She didn’t understand how she lost that ability until she began working with a new sports psychologist last summer.

“That was a little bit like less focus on sports psychology and more focus on, like, psychology psychology and a little bit more grief counseling style,” she said. “Explaining what was actually going on in my brain, like chemical changes in the brain because of trauma. Not just grief, but actually the traumatic experience itself of knowing what happened to my dad, seeing him in the hospital, touching him after he was dead. Those are things that you can’t get out of your head. It had an impact. Clearly, it still does.”

Shiffrin had a “weird a-ha moment” after her first course inspection this season in November in Finland.

“I didn’t take that long to inspect, and I remembered the whole course,” she said. “Oh my gosh, I was like coming out of a cloud that I had been in for over two years.”

What followed was a win, of course, and a season that approached Shiffrin’s unrivaled 2018-19. Fourteen wins in 31 World Cup starts, her busiest season ever, and bagging the season titles in the overall, slalom and GS in runaways.

“After last season, I didn’t feel like I could get to a level with my skiing again where it was actually contending for the slalom globe,” she said. “And GS, I actually had a little bit more hope for, but then at the beginning of the season, I kind of counted myself out.

“I feel like my highest level of skiing has been higher than the previous couple of seasons, maybe higher than my whole career. My average level of skiing has been also higher than previous seasons, and my lowest level of skiing has also been higher.”

There are other reasons for the revival of dominance, though Shiffrin was also the world’s best skier last season (Olympics aside). She went out of her way on Saturday afternoon to credit her head coach of seven years, Mike Day, who left the team during the world championships after he was told he would not be retained for next season.

“He is as much a part of the success this entire season as he’s ever been,” said Shiffrin, who parted with Day to bring aboard Karin Harjo, the first woman to be her head coach as a pro.

Shiffrin’s greatest success this season began around the time she watched a a mid-December chairlift interview between retired Liechtenstein skier Tina Weirather and Italian Sofia Goggia, the world’s top downhiller. Goggia spoke about her disdain for mediocrity.

“Ever since then, pretty much every time I put on my skis, I’m like, ‘OK, don’t be mediocre today,’” Shiffrin said in January.

During the highest highs of this season, Shiffrin felt like she did in 2018-19.

“It is mind-boggling to me to be in a position again where I got to feel that kind of momentum through a season because after that [2018-19] season, I was like, this is never going to happen again, and my best days of my career are really behind me, which it was kind of sad to feel that at this point four years ago,” said Shiffrin, who turned 28 years old last week. “This season, if anything, it just proved that, take 17 wins [from 2018-19] aside or the records or all those things, it’s still possible to feel that kind of momentum.”

After one last victory Sunday, Shiffrin sat in the winner’s chair with another crystal globe and took questions from an interviewer. It was her boyfriend, Norwegian Alpine skier Aleksander Aamodt Kilde.

“Excited to come back and do it again next year,” she replied to one question.

“Yeah,” he wittily replied. “You will.”

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Russia ban runs through Olympic gymnastics team qualifying deadline

By Nick ZaccardiMar 21, 2023, 11:06 AM EDT

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Russia’s ban from international sport extended long enough that, as rules stand, its gymnasts cannot qualify to defend Olympic men’s and women’s team titles at the 2024 Paris Games, even if they are reinstated to compete elsewhere before the Games start.

Should the ban be lifted in time, they can still qualify for the Paris Games to compete in individual events.

Gymnasts from Russia, and other European nations not already qualified, need to compete at next month’s European Championships to stay on the path toward Olympic qualification in the men’s and women’s team events.

Earlier this month, the European Gymnastics Federation was asked by what date must bans on Russian athletes be lifted for them to be eligible to compete at the European Championships.

“According to our rules, changes can be made until the draw,” the federation’s head of media wrote in a March 8 email.

The draw for the European Championships was held Tuesday. Russian gymnasts, who are still banned from international competition for the war in Ukraine, were not included in the draw.

The 2024 Olympic team event fields will be filled by the top finishers at this fall’s world championships, plus the medalists from last year’s worlds. Teams can only qualify for worlds via continental championships, such as the European Championships, or the previous year’s world championships.

The International Gymnastics Federation, whose Olympic qualifying rules were published by the IOC last April, was asked if there is any other way that gymnasts from Russia could qualify for the Olympic team events. It responded by forwarding a March 3 press release that stated that Russia and Belarus gymnasts remain banned “until further notice.”

Russia’s gymnastics federation has not responded to a Monday morning request for comment.

Last December, the IOC said it planned to explore a possibility that Russian and Belarusian athletes could enter Asian competitions if and when they are reinstated. There have been no further updates on that front. The Asian Gymnastics Championships are in June.

In Tokyo, Russian women, competing as the Russian Olympic Committee rather than Russia due to the nation’s doping violations, won the team title over the heavily favored U.S. after Simone Biles withdrew after her opening vault with the twisties. It marked the first Olympic women’s team title for Russian gymnasts since the Soviet Union broke up.

At last year’s worlds, the U.S. won the women’s team title in the absence of the banned Russians.

Russian men won the Tokyo Olympic team title by 103 thousandths of a point over Japan, their first gold in the event since the 1996 Atlanta Games.

China won last year’s world men’s team title over Japan and Great Britain.

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