Canada wins first-ever mixed doubles curling gold

By OlympicTalkFeb 13, 2018, 7:52 AM EST

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It was exactly the two teams everyone expected to be there playing for the first ever Olympic mixed doubles gold early Tuesday morning. Two former gold medalists from curling crazy Canada facing off against the defending World Champions from Switzerland.

HISTORY! Canada’s @LKLawes and @Johnnymocurler are the first Olympic mixed doubles #curling gold-medallists, and Canada’s first two-time Olympic curling gold-medallists! Gold clinched with 10-3 win over Switzerland! #pyeongchang2018 pic.twitter.com/iTOJDguqhE

— Curling Canada (@CurlingCanada) February 13, 2018

But, like they’ve done all tournament, Canada’s Kaitlin Lawes and John Morris once again dominated, and brought home another gold medal for Canada with a 10-3 victory over Switzerland’s Jenny Perret and Martin Rios.

A massive third end in which Canada picked up four points took them to a mammoth 6-2 lead. They picked up an additional two points each in the fifth and sixth ends to clinch the gold with two ends to spare.

Gold: Canada

Silver: Switzerland

Bronze: Olympic Athletes from Russia

Francesco Friedrich, most decorated bobsledder in history, rebounds for 12th world title

By OlympicTalkFeb 5, 2023, 9:50 AM EST

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A week after his first major championships defeat in seven years, German Francesco Friedrich returned to his winning ways to close the world bobsled championships on Sunday.

Friedrich’s four-man sled won the world title by 69 hundredths of a second over British and Latvian sleds that tied for silver, combining times from four runs over the last two days in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

Geoff Gadbois drove the lone U.S. sled in the field, finishing 18th.

Friedrich, the most decorated bobsledder in history, extended his records with a fifth consecutive world four-man title and 12th world championship between two- and four-man events.

Germany swept all four titles at bobsled worlds with four different drivers taking gold.

Friedrich had won 12 consecutive Olympic or world titles before taking two-man silver at worlds last week in St. Moritz, Switzerland. He was dethroned in that event by countryman Johannes Lochner.

Friedrich has been hampered recently by a muscle injury from sprint training in late December. Going into worlds, Lochner had won four consecutive World Cup two-man races, while Hall won the last two World Cups in four-man.

Friedrich, 32, said before this season that he plans to make the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Games his final competition. Friedrich and push athlete Thorsten Margis can break the record of four career Olympic bobsled gold medals that they currently share with retired Germans Andre Lange and Kevin Kuske.

The World Cup season concludes with stops in Igls, Austria, and Sigulda, Latvia, the next two weekends.

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2023 World Alpine Skiing Championships TV, live stream schedule

By OlympicTalkFeb 5, 2023, 7:10 AM EST

Every race of the world Alpine skiing championships airs live on Peacock from Feb. 6-19.

France hosts the biennial worlds in Meribel and Courchevel — six women’s races, six men’s races and one mixed-gender team event.

Mikaela Shiffrin is the headliner, in the midst of her most successful season in four years with a tour-leading 11 World Cup wins in 23 starts. Shiffrin is up to 85 career World Cup victories, one shy of Ingemar Stenmark‘s record accumulated over the 1970s and ’80s.

World championships races do not count in the World Cup tally.

Shiffrin is expected to race at least four times at worlds, starting with Monday’s combined. She earned a medal in 11 of her 13 career world championships races, including each of the last 10 dating to 2015.

Shiffrin won at least one race at each of the last five world championships (nobody has gold from six different worlds). Her six total golds and 11 total medals are American records. At this edition, she can become the most decorated skier in modern world championships history from any nation.

She enters one medal shy of the record for most individual world championships medals since World War II (Norway’s Kjetil Andre Aamodt) and four medals shy of the all-time record. (Worlds were held annually in the 1930s, albeit with fewer races.)

She is also one gold medal shy of the post-World War II individual record shared by Austrian Toni Sailer, Frenchwoman Marielle Goitschel and Swede Anja Pärson.

The other favorites at these worlds include Italian Sofia Goggia, the world’s top female downhiller this season, and the two leading men: Swiss Marco Odermatt (No. 1 in super-G and giant slalom) and Norwegian Aleksander Aamodt Kilde (No. 1 in downhill).

2023 World Alpine Skiing Championships Broadcast Schedule

Date	Event	Time (ET)	Platform
Mon., Feb. 6	Women’s Combined Super-G Run	5 a.m.	Peacock
	Women’s Combined Slalom Run	8:30 a.m.	Peacock
Tues., Feb. 7	Men’s Combined Super-G Run	5 a.m.	Peacock
	Men’s Combined Slalom Run	8:30 a.m.	Peacock
Wed., Feb. 8	Women’s Super-G	5:30 a.m.	Peacock
Thu., Feb. 9	Men’s Super-G	5:30 a.m.	Peacock
Sat., Feb. 11	Women’s Downhill	5 a.m.	Peacock
	Highlights	2:30 p.m.*	NBC, Peacock
Sun., Feb. 12	Men’s Downhill	5 a.m	Peacock
	Highlights	3 p.m.*	NBC, Peacock
Tue., Feb. 14	Team Parallel	6:15 a.m.	Peacock
	Men’s/Women’s Parallel Qualifying	11 a.m.	Peacock
Wed., Feb. 15	Men’s/Women’s Parallel	6 a.m.	Peacock
Thu., Feb. 16	Women’s Giant Slalom Run 1	4 a.m.	Peacock
	Women’s Giant Slalom Run 2	7:30 a.m.	Peacock
Fri., Feb. 17	Men’s Giant Slalom Run 1	4 a.m.	Peacock
	Men’s Giant Slalom Run 2	7:30 a.m.	Peacock
Sat., Feb. 18	Women’s Slalom Run 1	4 a.m.	Peacock
	Women’s Slalom Run 2	7:30 a.m.	Peacock
	Highlights	2:30 p.m.*	NBC, Peacock
Sun., Feb. 19	Men’s Slalom Run 1	4 a.m.	Peacock
	Men’s Slalom Run 2	7:30 a.m.	Peacock
	Highlights	3 p.m.*	NBC, Peacock

*Delayed broadcast
*All NBC coverage streams on NBCSports.com/live and the NBC Sports app for TV subscribers.

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