How to watch overall World Cup champ Mikaela Shiffrin ski this weekend

By Nate ClarkMar 6, 2019, 12:39 PM EST

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It would seem Mikaela Shiffrin picked the best weekend of the season to take a break after every scheduled event in Sochi, Russia last week had to be cancelled due to adverse weather conditions.

Shiffrin, while training in Italy ahead of this week’s events in the Czech Republic, was still able to make headlines, when her World Cup points total allowed her to clinch her third-consecutive overall title. She has also clinched her fourth-straight slalom crystal globe, and sixth overall, after taking an insurmountable 203-point lead in the standings.

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Thank you. Simply, thank you.#weareskiing pic.twitter.com/Fm46Iw4GPl

— Mikaela Shiffrin (@MikaelaShiffrin) March 2, 2019

The women’s World Cup will attempt to get back to racing on Friday with the first run of the giant slalom scheduled for 4:30 a.m. ET. Watch the first run live on OlympicChannel.com or with an NBC Sports Gold Snow Pass. The second run can be seen live on TV and streaming on Olympic Channel and NBC Sports Gold.

After crisscrossing the globe, the ISU Speed Skating World Cup winds up in Utah for the final event of the season. The U.S.’ Brittany Bowe and Joey Mantia, both recently crowned world champions, will close out their seasons on home ice at the site of the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Games.

For Bowe, she returns to the track where she set the world record in the 1000m not once, but twice in her career, and is closing out a season where she has landed on 12 World Cup podiums.

Watch speed skating from Salt Lake City beginning on Friday at 11:00 p.m. on TV on Olympic Channel.

If you’re looking to thaw out from all the winter sports action, some of the best international swimmers in the world convene in Des Moines at the second stop on the TYR Pro Swim Series. Look for the U.S.’ 2016 Olympic gold medalists Caeleb Dressel and Kathleen Baker to be in the pool in Iowa. Watch the first of three days of swimming in primetime beginning on Thursday at 8:00 p.m. ET on TV and streaming on Olympic Channel.

ALPINE SKIING WORLD CUP — Spindleruv Mlyn, Czech Republic; Kranjska Gora, Slovenia

Day	Time (ET)	Event	TV	Stream
Friday	4:30 a.m.	Women’s Giant Slalom (Run 1)		OlympicChannel.com/NBC Sports Gold
	7:30 a.m.	Women’s Giant Slalom (Run 2)	Olympic Channel	Olympic Channel/NBC Sports Gold
	12:00 p.m.	Women’s Giant Slalom (Run 2)*	NBCSN
Saturday	3:30 a.m.	Men’s Giant Slalom (Run 1)		OlympicChannel.com/NBC Sports Gold
	4:30 a.m.	Women’s Slalom (Run 1)		OlympicChannel.com/NBC Sports Gold
	6:30 a.m.	Men’s Giant Slalom (Run 2) DELAYED start at 8:30 a.m.	Olympic Channel	Olympic Channel/NBC Sports Gold
	7:30 a.m.	Women’s Slalom (Run 2)	Olympic Channel	Olympic Channel/NBC Sports Gold
	6:00 p.m.	Women’s Slalom (Run 2)*	NBCSN
Sunday	4:30 a.m.	Men’s Slalom (Run 1)		OlympicChannel.com/NBC Sports Gold
	7:30 a.m.	Men’s Slalom (Run 2)	Olympic Channel	Olympic Channel/NBC Sports Gold

*Same-day delay

BOBSLED AND SKELETON WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS — Whistler, British Columbia

Day	Time (ET)	Event	TV	Stream
Thursday	12:00 p.m.	Men’s Skeleton (Run 1)	Olympic Channel	Olympic Channel
	1:45 p.m.	Men’s Skeleton (Run 2)	Olympic Channel	Olympic Channel
	3:30 p.m.	Women’s Skeleton (Run 1)	Olympic Channel	Olympic Channel
	5:00 p.m.	Women’s Skeleton (Run 2)	Olympic Channel	Olympic Channel
	11:30 p.m.	Men’s and Women’s Skeleton Day 1*	NBCSN
Friday	12:00 p.m.	Men’s Skeleton (Run 3)	Olympic Channel	Olympic Channel
	1:45 p.m.	Men’s Skeleton (Final Run)	Olympic Channel	Olympic Channel
	3:30 p.m.	Women’s Skeleton (Run 3)	Olympic Channel	Olympic Channel
	5:00 p.m.	Women’s Skeleton (Final Run)	Olympic Channel	Olympic Channel
	8:00 p.m.	Four-Man Bobsled (Run 1)	Olympic Channel	Olympic Channel
	9:30 p.m.	Four-Man Bobsled (Run 2)	NBCSN	NBCSN
Saturday	8:00 p.m.	Four-Man Bobsled (Run 3)	Olympic Channel	Olympic Channel
	9:30 p.m.	Four-Man Bobsled (Final Run)	Olympic Channel	Olympic Channel

*Same-day delay

BIATHLON WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS — Oestersund, Sweden

Day	Time (ET)	Event	TV	Stream
Thursday	10:15 a.m.	Mixed Relay	Olympic Channel	Olympic Channel/NBC Sports Gold
	4:00 p.m.	Mixed Relay*	NBCSN
Friday	10:15 a.m.	Women’s 7.5km Sprint	Olympic Channel	Olympic Channel/NBC Sports Gold
	1:00 p.m.	Women’s 7.5km Sprint*	NBCSN
Saturday	10:30 a.m.	Men’s 10km Sprint	Olympic Channel	Olympic Channel/NBC Sports Gold
Sunday	8:45 a.m.	Women’s 10km Pursuit	Olympic Channel	Olympic Channel/NBC Sports Gold
	11:30 a.m.	Men’s 12.5km Pursuit	Olympic Channel	Olympic Channel/NBC Sports Gold

*Same-day delay

CROSS-COUNTRY WORLD CUP — Oslo, Norway

Day	Time (ET)	Event	TV	Stream
Saturday	4:00 a.m.	Men’s 50km Mass Start	Olympic Channel	Olympic Channel/NBC Sports Gold
Sunday	6:45 a.m.	Women’s 30km Mass Start		OlympicChannel.com/NBC Sports Gold
	1:00 p.m.	Women’s 30km Mass Start*	Olympic Channel

*Same-day delay

FENCING GRAND PRIX — Cairo, Egypt; Budapest, Hungary

Day	Time (ET)	Event	TV	Stream
Friday	9:00 a.m.	From Cairo, Egypt*	Olympic Channel
Sunday	4:00 p.m.	From Budapest, Hungary		OlympicChannel.com

*Pre-recorded

FREESKI AND SNOWBOARDING TOYOTA U.S. GRAND PRIX — Mammoth Lakes, California

Day	Time (ET)	Event	TV	Stream
Friday	12:30 p.m.	Snowboarding: Slopestyle		NBCSports.com/NBC Sports Gold
	4:00 p.m.	Freeski: Halfpipe		NBCSports.com/NBC Sports Gold
Sunday	12:30 a.m.	Freeski: Halfpipe*	NBCSN
	12:30 p.m.	Freeski: Slopestyle		NBCSports.com/NBC Sports Gold
	4:00 p.m.	Snowboarding: Halfpipe		NBCSports.com/NBC Sports Gold
	11:30 p.m.	Snowboarding: Slopestyle*	NBCSN

*Encore presentation

NORDIC COMBINED WORLD CUP — Oslo, Norway

Day	Time (ET)	Event	TV	Stream
Saturday	3:00 a.m.	Men’s HS134		OlympicChannel.com/NBC Sports Gold
	7:30 a.m.	Men’s 10km		OlympicChannel.com/NBC Sports Gold

SKI JUMPING WORLD CUP RAW AIR TOURNAMENT — Oslo, Norway

Day	Time (ET)	Event	TV	Stream
Friday	1:30 p.m.	Men’s Qualifying		OlympicChannel.com/NBC Sports Gold
Saturday	8:30 a.m.	Men’s Team		OlympicChannel.com/NBC Sports Gold
	3:00 p.m.	Men’s Team*	Olympic Channel
Sunday	5:00 a.m.	Women’s Individual		OlympicChannel.com/NBC Sports Gold
	9:30 a.m.	Men’s Individual		OlympicChannel.com/NBC Sports Gold
	3:00 p.m.	Women’s Individual*	Olympic Channel
	4:30 p.m.	Men’s Individual*	Olympic Channel

*Same-day delay

SNOWBOARDING WORLD CUP — Scuol, Switzerland

Day	Time (ET)	Event	TV	Stream
Saturday	7:30 a.m.	Parallel Giant Slalom		OlympicChannel.com/NBC Sports Gold

SPEED SKATING WORLD CUP — Salt Lake City, Utah

Day	Time (ET)	Event	TV	Stream
Saturday	2:20 p.m.	World Cup Final Day 1		NBC Sports Gold
	11:00 p.m.	World Cup Final Day 1*	Olympic Channel
Sunday	3:15 p.m.	World Cup Final Day 2		NBC Sports Gold
	11:00 p.m.	World Cup Final Day 2*	Olympic Channel

*Same-day delay

SHORT TRACK WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS — Sofia, Bulgaria

Day	Time (ET)	Event	TV	Stream
Saturday	8:00 a.m.	Day 2		NBC Sports Gold
	6:00 p.m.	Day 2*	Olympic Channel
Sunday	8:00 a.m.	Day 3		NBC Sports Gold
	6:00 p.m.	Day 3*	Olympic Channel

*Same-day delay

TYR PRO SWIM SERIES — Des Moines, Iowa

Day	Time (ET)	Event	TV	Stream
Thursday	8:00 p.m.	Day 1	Olympic Channel	Olympic Channel
Friday	1:00 a.m.	Day 1*	NBCSN
	8:00 p.m.	Day 2	NBCSN	NBCSports.com
Saturday	8:00 p.m.	Day 3		NBCSports.com

*Next-day delay

Diana Taurasi says 2024 Paris Olympics ‘on my radar’

Associated PressFeb 7, 2023, 3:16 PM EST

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Diana Taurasi said immediately after winning her fifth Olympic gold medal in Tokyo that she might try for a record sixth in Paris.

It’s still on her mind 17 months out of the 2024 Paris Olympics.

“It’s something that it’s on my radar,” Taurasi told The Associated Press in a phone interview Tuesday after the first day of a USA Basketball training camp in Minnesota, her first national team activity since Tokyo. “I’m still competitive, still driven, still want to play, I still love being a part of USA Basketball.”

Taurasi will be 42 at the time of the Paris Games — older than any previous Olympic basketball player — but said if she’s healthy enough she’d like to give it a go.

“If the opportunity comes to play and be a part of it, it’s something I’ve always taken a lot of pride in,” said Taurasi, who shares the record of five Olympic basketball gold medals with the retired Sue Bird. “When you get to my age at this point in my career, you just try to win every day. Right now this is a good opportunity to be part of this team moving forward we’ll see what happens.”

She said she would have played at the FIBA World Cup last year in Australia, but had a quad strain that kept her out of the end of the WNBA season.

“I got hurt a little bit before. I had a good conversation with Coach (Cheryl) Reeve and (USA Basketball CEO Jim) Tooley. I felt like I hadn’t played enough basketball to be out there and help,” Taurasi said. “That’s the biggest thing with USA Basketball is being able to help the team win.”

Reeve said Monday that when she succeeded Dawn Staley as head coach a few months after Tokyo, she wasn’t sure whether Taurasi would play for the national team again. That was before her conversation with Taurasi.

“I look forward to having a chance to have her be around and be, as I told her, a great voice,” Reeve said. “Obviously, the competitive fire that she competes with is something that we all do well with.”

In Tokyo, Taurasi started all six games and averaged 18.8 minutes per game, sixth-most on the team (fewer than backup guard Chelsea Gray). Her 5.8 points per game were her fewest in her Olympic career, though she was dealing with a hip injury.

Taurasi is an unrestricted free agent although she is expected to return back to Phoenix where she’s spent her entire career since getting drafted No. 1 overall in 2003.

“Phoenix still has things they need to work out,” the WNBA’s all-time leading scorer said.

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Alexis Pinturault wins world championships combined; American in fourth

By OlympicTalkFeb 7, 2023, 12:45 PM EST

France’s Alexis Pinturault won the world Alpine skiing championships combined at his home venue after defending world champion Marco Schwarz blew a lead in the final seconds of his slalom run.

Pinturault, a 31-year-old who hadn’t won a race in nearly two years (the longest drought of his distinguished career), prevailed by one tenth of a second over the Austrian Schwarz in Courchevel, France.

“I hope to enjoy it because it was pretty difficult some months ago,” Pinturault said.

Austrian Raphael Haaser took bronze in an event that combined times from a morning super-G run and an afternoon slalom run, one day after his older sister took bronze in the women’s combined.

River Radamus was fourth, a quarter of a second from becoming the first U.S. man to win an Alpine worlds medal since 2015. Radamus’ best event is the giant slalom, which is scheduled for Feb. 17 at worlds.

“It’s nice, but honestly, you don’t come to world championships hoping to get fourth,” Radamus said.

Five skiers finished within 2.98 seconds of the winner in an event that has been dropped from the annual World Cup schedule and is under review to remain on the Olympic program.

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Pinturault had the fastest super-G run by six hundredths over Schwarz. Schwarz, a slightly better slalom skier than Pinturault, erased that deficit early in the slalom and had a three tenths lead at the last intermediate split.

He gave it all away about six gates from the finish, slamming on the brakes. Moments later, he crossed the finish line one tenth behind Pinturault, who reacted by pumping his fists in the air.

The Frenchman earned his first race victory since the March 2021 World Cup Finals giant slalom, where he clinched his first World Cup overall title, the biggest annual prize in ski racing. Last season, Pinturault went winless on the World Cup for the first time since he was a teenage rookie in 2011, plus went medal-less at the Olympics.

Pinturault, who grew up in Courchevel and now co-owns the family’s five-star Hotel Annapurna there, had retirement cross his mind in the offseason, according to Eurosport. He skipped a pre-worlds Sunday press conference due to illness.

Nonetheless, Pinturault was on the front page of French newspapers this week, including L’Equipe on Tuesday. In a sports cover story for Le Figaro, Pinturault said that, given the circumstances, it would be almost a “nice surprise” to go for a medal at these worlds.

Olympic champion Johannes Strolz of Austria skied out of the slalom after tying for 29th in the super-G.

Olympic silver and bronze medalists Aleksander Aamodt Kilde of Norway and Jack Crawford of Canada were among the speed specialists who did not start the slalom. They essentially used the event as a training run for Thursday’s super-G.

Worlds continue Wednesday with the women’s super-G, where Mikaela Shiffrin is a medal contender but not the favorite. She can tie the modern-era records for individual world championships gold medals (seven) and total medals (12).

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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