2019 World Gymnastics Championships TV, live stream schedule

By OlympicTalkOct 2, 2019, 11:35 AM EDT

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Simone Biles and the U.S. gymnastics teams compete in the biggest international meet before the Tokyo Olympics, the world championships in Stuttgart, Germany, starting this weekend, live on NBC Sports and Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA.

Biles, undefeated in all-arounds for six years, leads a U.S. women’s squad eyeing a seventh straight Olympic or world team title. Biles is similarly a huge favorite to earn her fifth world all-around title.

The Americans bring a surprising roster without a few of the regular names from the first two years of the Olympic cycle: 2017 World all-around champion Morgan Hurd, Riley McCusker and Ragan Smith.

Instead, Biles is joined by Jade Carey, Sunisa Lee, Grace McCallum and Kara Eaker.

The U.S. men are trying to end their longest team medal drought this millennium, none since 2014. They are once again led by six-time national all-around champion Sam Mikulak, who seeks a breakthrough world all-around medal as well.

The dominant men’s programs continue to be China, Russia and Japan, though the 2020 Olympic host will be without superstars Kohei Uchimura and Kenzo Shirai, who were not named to the team after being slowed by injuries.

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2019 World Gymnastics Championships Live TV, Stream Schedule

Day	Time (ET)	Network	Event
Friday, Oct. 4	12 p.m.	STREAM LINK	Women’s Qualifying
	2 p.m.	STREAM LINK	Women’s Qualifying
Saturday, Oct. 5	7:30 a.m.	STREAM LINK	Women’s Qualifying
	9:30 a.m.	STREAM LINK	Women’s Qualifying
	2 p.m.	STREAM LINK	U.S. Women’s Qualifying
	3 p.m.*	Olympic Channel	Women’s Qualifying
Sunday, Oct. 6	10:30 a.m.	STREAM LINK	Men’s Qualifying
Monday, Oct. 7	4 a.m.	STREAM LINK	U.S. Men’s Qualifying
	4 a.m.	Olympic Channel	Men’s Qualifying
	7 a.m.	STREAM LINK	Men’s Qualifying
	10:30 a.m.	STREAM LINK	Men’s Qualifying
Tuesday, Oct. 8	8:30 a.m.	NBCSN	Women’s Team Final
Wednesday, Oct. 9	7:45 a.m.	Olympic Channel	Men’s Team Final
	3 p.m.*	NBCSN
Thursday, Oct. 10	10 a.m.	NBCSN	Women’s All-Around
Friday, Oct. 11	10 a.m.	Olympic Channel	Men’s All-Around
	9:30 p.m.*	NBCSN
Saturday, Oct. 12	10 a.m.	Olympic Channel	Apparatus Finals
	3 p.m.*	NBC	Recap Show
Sunday, Oct. 13	7 a.m.	STREAM LINK	Apparatus Finals
	12 p.m.*	Olympic Channel

*Delayed broadcast

South Korea’s first gold medalist of 2018 PyeongChang Olympics to compete for China

By OlympicTalkSep 26, 2022, 3:15 PM EDT

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Lim Hyo-Jun, a short track speed skater who won South Korea’s first gold medal of the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics, has been cleared to skate for China and was reportedly named to the national team Monday.

Lim, who won the 1500m on the first day of medal competition at the PyeongChang Games, began the process of switching to China after a June 2019 incident where he pulled down a teammate’s trousers, leaving him standing, exposed, in front of female teammates.

Lim, the 2019 World overall champion, was banned from the team for a year and later found guilty of sexual harassment before the verdict was overturned on appeal.

It was reported in March 2021 that Lim was in the process of trying to gain Chinese nationality to compete at the Beijing Winter Olympics, but Lim was not cleared to switch by the International Skating Union until this July. His Chinese name is Lin Xiaojun.

Another star South Korean skater, triple 2006 Olympic gold medalist Ahn Hyun-Soo, switched to Russia after not making the 2010 Olympic team. He then won three golds for the host nation as Viktor Ahn at the 2014 Sochi Games.

China’s national team for the upcoming season reportedly does not include veterans Wu Dajing, the nation’s lone gold medalist across all sports at the 2018 Olympics, and Fan Kexin, a three-time Olympic medalist.

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Brigid Kosgei, world record holder, to miss London Marathon

By OlympicTalkSep 26, 2022, 2:12 PM EDT

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World record holder Brigid Kosgei withdrew before Sunday’s London Marathon due to a right hamstring injury that has bothered her for the last month.

“My training has been up and down and not the way I would like to prepare to be in top condition,” was posted on Kosgei’s social media. “We’ve decided it’s best I withdraw from this year’s race and get further treatment on my injuries in order to enter 2023 stronger than ever.”

Kosgei, a 28-year-old Kenyan mother of twins, shattered the world record by 81 seconds at the 2019 Chicago Marathon. She clocked 2:14:04 to smash Brit Paula Radcliffe‘s record from 2003.

Since, Kosgei won the 2020 London Marathon, took silver at the Tokyo Olympics, placed fourth at the 2021 London Marathon and won this past March’s Tokyo Marathon in what was then the third-fastest time in history (2:16:02).

Ethiopian Tigist Assefa moved into the top three by winning the Berlin Marathon last Sunday in 2:15:37.

The London Marathon women’s field includes Kenyan Joyciline Jepkosgei, a winner in New York City (2019) and London (2021), and Yalemzerf Yehualaw, who was the Ethiopian record holder until Assefa won in Berlin.

The men’s field is headlined by Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele, the second-fastest male marathoner in history, and Brit Mo Farah, a four-time Olympic champion on the track.

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