2021 Tour de France TV, live stream schedule

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Every stage of the 108th Tour de France airs live on NBC Sports and Peacock.

All NBC and NBCSN coverage also streams on NBCSports.com/live and the NBC Sports app.

Tadej Pogacar defends his surprise title from September, when he became the first Slovenian to win cycling’s most prestigious stage race.

Pogacar, then 21, was the second-youngest winner in race history, after Henri Cornet in 1904. (Cornet won after the first four finishers were disqualified for unspecified cheating. The 19-year-old Frenchman rode 21 miles with a flat tire during the last stage after spectators reportedly threw nails on the road.)

Pogacar was the first man to win a Tour in his debut since Frenchman Laurent Fignon in 1983. And the first in more than 60 years to pedal in the yellow jersey for the first time on the final day of a Tour.

Fellow Slovenian Primoz Roglic, the 2020 Tour leader for nearly two weeks before ceding in the time trial on the penultimate day, also returns. Roglic is supported by a strong team of climbers, including American Sepp Kuss.

Chris Froome, a four-time champion, races the Tour for the first time since 2018 and with his new team, Israel Start-Up Nation.

Froome is coming back from a June 2019 crash, where he slammed into the wall of a house at 34 miles per hour after losing control on a training ride. He broke his right femur, elbow and several ribs, was in intensive care and underwent surgery for several hours. He is not a general classification contender.

Past Tour champions Geraint Thomas and Vincenzo Nibali are also in the field. It’s the first time that four past Tour winners start the race since 2009 (if you include Lance Armstrong) or 1993 (if you don’t include Armstrong).

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2021 TOUR DE FRANCE BROADCAST SCHEDULE

Date Time (ET) Stage Platform
Sat., June 26 6 a.m. Stage 1: Brest-Landerneau NBCSN | Peacock
Sun., June 27 7 a.m. Stage 2: Perros-Guirec-Mur-de-Bretagne NBCSN | Peacock
Mon., June 28 7 a.m. Stage 3: Lorient-Pontivy NBCSN | Peacock
Tue., June 29 7 a.m. Stage 4: Redon-Fougeres NBCSN | Peacock (7:15 a.m.)
Wed., June 30 6 a.m. Stage 5: Change-Laval NBCSN | Peacock (6:05 a.m.)
Thu., July 1 7 a.m. Stage 6: Tours-Chateauroux NBCSN | Peacock (7:45 a.m.)
Fri., July 2 7 a.m. Stage 7: Vierzon-Le Creusot NBCSN | Peacock (4:50 a.m.)
Sat., July 3 7 a.m. Stage 8: Oyonnax-Le Grand-Bornand NBCSN | Peacock
Sun., July 4 7 a.m. Stage 9: Cluses-Tignes NBCSN | Peacock (6:50 a.m.)
Tue., July 6 7 a.m. Stage 10: Albertville-Valence NBCSN | Peacock (6:55 a.m.)
Wed., July 7 6 a.m. Stage 11: Sorgues-Malaucene NBCSN | Peacock (5:50 a.m.)
Thu., July 8 7 a.m. Stage 12: Saint-Paul-Trois-Chateux-Nimes NBCSN | Peacock (7:20 a.m.)
Fri., July 9 6 a.m. Stage 13: Nimes-Caracassone NBCSN | Peacock (5:55 a.m.)
Sat., July 10 8 a.m. Stage 14: Carcassone-Quillan NBC | Peacock (6:15 a.m.)
Sun., July 11 6 a.m. Stage 15: Ceret-Andorra la Vella NBCSN | Peacock (6:10 a.m.)
Tue., July 13 7 a.m. Stage 16: El Pas de la Casa-Saint-Gaudens NBCSN | Peacock (6:55 a.m.)
Wed., July 14 6 a.m. Stage 17: Muret-Saint-Lary-Soulan NBCSN | Peacock (5:45 a.m.)
Thu., July 15 7 a.m. Stage 18: Pau-Luiz Ardiden NBCSN | Peacock (7:25 a.m.)
Fri., July 16 7 a.m. Stage 19: Mourenx-Libourne NBCSN | Peacock (6:05 a.m.)
Sat., July 17 7 a.m. Stage 20: Libourne-Saint-Emilion NBCSN | Peacock (6:55 a.m.)
Sun., July 18 10 a.m. Stage 21: Chatou-Paris NBC | Peacock (10:05 a.m.)

Shoma Uno leads Ilia Malinin at figure skating worlds; Japan wins first pairs’ title

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Defending champion Shoma Uno of Japan bettered American Ilia Malinin in the world figure skating championships short program.

Malinin, 18, plans one of, if not the most difficult free skate in history on Saturday in a bid to overtake Uno to become the youngest world champion in 25 years.

Uno, who has reportedly dealt with an ankle injury, skated clean Thursday save doubling the back end of a planned quadruple toe loop-triple toe combination. He totaled 104.63 points, overtaking Malinin by 4.25 on home ice in Saitama.

“I was able to do better jumps compared to my practice in my short program today, and even if I am not in my best condition, I want to focus on other details other than my jumps as well,” Uno said, according to the International Skating Union.

Malinin, who this season landed the first quadruple Axel in competition, had a clean short after struggling with the program all autumn. He landed a quadruple Lutz-triple toe combo, a quad toe and a triple Axel. Uno beat him on artistic component scores.

“I was really in the moment,” said Malinin, who plans a record-tying six quads in Saturday’s free skate after attempting five at previous competitions this season. “I was really feeling my performance out there.”

FIGURE SKATING WORLDS: Results | Broadcast Schedule

The quad Axel is not allowed in the short program, but expect Malinin to include it in the free, and he likely needs it to beat Uno.

Malinin has been a force in skating, starting with his breakout silver-medal finish at the January 2022 U.S. Championships. He was left off last year’s Olympic team due to his inexperience, then won the world junior title last spring.

He entered these senior worlds ranked second in the field behind Uno, yet outside the top 15 in the world in the short program this season. After a comfortable win at January’s national championships, he can become the youngest men’s world champion since Russian Alexei Yagudin in 1998.

Two-time U.S. Olympian Jason Brown placed sixth with a clean short in his first full international competition since last year’s Olympics.

The third American, Andrew Torgashev, fell on his opening quad toe loop and ended up 22nd in his worlds debut.

Olympic gold medalist Nathan Chen has not skated this season, going back to Yale, and is not expected to return to competition. Silver medalist Yuma Kagiyama of Japan has been out with left leg and ankle bone injuries. Two-time Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu retired.

Earlier Thursday, Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara won Japan’s first pairs’ world title, dethroning Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier, who last year became the first Americans to win a pairs’ world title since 1979.

More on the pairs’ event here.

Worlds continue Thursday night (U.S. time) with the rhythm dance, followed Friday morning with the women’s free skate, live on Peacock and USA Network.

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2023 World Figure Skating Championships results

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2023 World Figure Skating Championships in Saitama, Japan, top 10 and notable results …

Women (Short Program)
1. Kaori Sakamoto (JPN) — 79.24
2. Lee Hae-In (KOR) — 73.62
3. Mai Mihara (JPN) — 73.46
4. Isabeau Levito (USA) — 73.03
5. Loena Hendrickx (BEL) — 71.94
6. Niina Petrokina (EST) — 68.00
7. Nicole Schott (GER) — 67.29
8. Bradie Tennell (USA) — 66.45
9. Ekaterina Kurakova (POL) — 65.69
10. Amber Glenn (USA) — 65.52

FIGURE SKATING WORLDS: Broadcast Schedule

Men (Short Program)
1. Shoma Uno (JPN) — 104.63
2. Ilia Malinin (USA) — 100.38
3. Cha Jun-Hwan (KOR) — 99.64
4. Keegan Messing (CAN) — 98.75
5. Kevin Aymoz (FRA) — 95.56
6. Jason Brown (USA) — 94.17
7. Kazuki Tomono (JPN) — 92.68
8. Daniel Grassl (ITA) — 86.50
9. Lukas Britschgi (SUI) — 86.18
10. Vladimir Litvintsev (AZE) — 82.71
17. Sota Yamamoto (JPN) — 75.48
22. Andrew Torgashev (USA) — 71.41

Pairs
Gold: Riku Miura/Ryuichi Kihara (JPN) — 222.16
Silver: Alexa Knierim/Brandon Frazier (USA) — 217.48
Bronze: Sara Conti/Niccolo Macii (ITA) — 208.08
4. Deanna Stellato-Dudek/Maxime Deschamps (CAN) — 199.97
5. Emily Chan/Spencer Howe (USA) — 194.73
6. Lia Pereira/Trennt Michaud (CAN) — 193.00
7. Maria Pavlova/Alexei Sviatchenko (HUN) — 190.67
8. Anastasia Golubova/Hektor Giotopoulos Moore (AUS) — 189.47
9. Annika Hocke/Robert Kunkel (GER) — 184.60
10. Alisa Efimova/Ruben Blommaert (GER) — 184.46
12. Ellie Kam/Danny O’Shea (USA) — 175.59

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