Shaun White begins Olympic season; winter sports broadcast schedule

By OlympicTalkDec 8, 2021, 3:19 PM EST

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Shaun White begins his build-up to a potential fifth Olympics (and fourth gold medal) headlining the U.S. Grand Prix at Copper Mountain, Colorado, live this week on NBC Sports and Peacock.

White, 35, competes for the first time this season at Copper Mountain, one of the Olympic selection events for ski and snowboard halfpipe. He must advance through qualifying to reach Saturday’s final (2 p.m. ET, NBCSN and Peacock).

White is favored to make the Olympic team of up to four men later in December or January, given he was the top American in the first of four Olympic qualifiers last March. He finished fourth overall, behind two Japanese riders and a German, at a contest in Aspen, Colorado.

That was his first competition since taking his third Olympic title in PyeongChang.

The top two U.S. men and women in the world halfpipe rankings on Dec. 22 qualify for Beijing, if they’re in the top six. No American men are currently in the top six. White is ranked 70th in large part because of his lack of competitions.

After world rankings, the riders with the best single podium result among the four Olympic selection events make the team until it reaches three men and three women. A fourth rider per gender can be added via discretionary selection.

This week’s field includes four Olympic medal contenders from Japan, led by two-time silver medalist Ayumu Hirano and last season’s top rider, Yuto Totsuka.

Other Americans entered include 2014 Olympian Taylor Gold and 2018 Olympian Chase Josey.

Headliners in ski halfpipe at Copper: two-time Olympic champion David Wise, 2018 Olympic silver medalist Alex Ferreira and 2018 Olympic bronze medalist Brita Sigourney.

Top U.S. female halfpipe snowboarders Chloe Kim and Maddie Mastro are not entered, but do not need to compete to be Olympic eligible. They are ranked Nos. 4 and 5 in the world.

Elsewhere in winter sports, Mikaela Shiffrin is expected to race a pair of super-Gs in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Shiffrin is working on her speed events as she eyes racing all five individual Alpine skiing events at the Olympics for the first time.

U.S. Grand Prix — Copper Mountain, Colorado

Day	Time (ET)	Event	Platform
Friday	2:30 p.m.	Ski Halfpipe	Peacock \| STREAM LINK
	9:30 p.m.*	Ski Halfpipe	NBCSN \| STREAM LINK
Saturday	2 p.m.	Snowboard Halfpipe	NBCSN \| Peacock \| STREAM LINK
	5 p.m.*	Ski Halfpipe	NBC \| STREAM LINK
Sunday	1 p.m.*	Snowboard Halfpipe	NBC \| STREAM LINK

Alpine Skiing World Cup — Val d’Isere, France (Men) and St. Moritz, Switzerland (Women)

Day	Time (ET)	Event	Platform
Saturday	3:30 a.m.	Men’s Giant Slalom Run 1	Peacock \| STREAM LINK
	4:30 a.m.	Women’s Super-G	Olympic Channel \| Peacock
	7 a.m.	Men’s Giant Slalom Run 2	Peacock \| STREAM LINK
	12:30 p.m.*	Women’s Super-G	NBCSN \| STREAM LINK
Sunday	3:30 a.m.	Men’s Slalom Run 1	Peacock \| STREAM LINK
	4:30 a.m.	Women’s Super-G	Olympic Channel \| Peacock
	7 a.m.	Men’s Slalom Run 2	Peacock \| STREAM LINK
	4:30 p.m.*	Women’s Super-G	NBCSN \| STREAM LINK

Bobsled/Skeleton World Cup — Winterberg, Germany

Day	Time (ET)	Event	Platform
Friday	4 a.m.	Men’s Skeleton	Olympics.com \| STREAM LINK
	8:30 a.m.	Women’s Skeleton	Olympics.com \| STREAM LINK
	6 p.m.*	Men’s Skeleton	Olympic Channel \| STREAM LINK
	7 p.m.*	Women’s Skeleton	Olympic Channel \| STREAM LINK
Saturday	4 a.m.	Four-Man Bobsled	Olympics.com \| STREAM LINK
	8:30 a.m.	Women’s Monobob	Olympics.com \| STREAM LINK
	6 p.m.*	Four-Man Bobsled	Olympic Channel \| STREAM LINK
	7 p.m.*	Women’s Monobob	Olympic Channel \| STREAM LINK
Sunday	3 a.m.	Two-Woman Bobsled	Olympics.com \| STREAM LINK
	7:30 a.m.	Four-Man Bobsled	Olympics.com \| STREAM LINK
	6 p.m.*	Two-Woman Bobsled	Olympic Channel \| STREAM LINK
	7 p.m.*	Four-Man Bobsled	Olympic Channel \| STREAM LINK

Luge World Cup — Altenberg, Germany

Day	Time (ET)	Event	Platform
Saturday	3:30 a.m.	Doubles	Olympics.com \| STREAM LINK
	6:10 a.m.	Women	Olympics.com \| STREAM LINK
Sunday	3:15 a.m.	Men	Olympics.com \| STREAM LINK
	7 a.m.	Team Relay	Olympics.com \| STREAM LINK

Speed Skating World Cup — Calgary, Canada

Day	Time (ET)	Event	Platform
Friday	2:30 p.m.	Day 1	Peacock \| STREAM LINK
Saturday	2:30 p.m.	Day 2	Peacock \| STREAM LINK
Sunday	2:30 p.m.	Day 3	Peacock \| STREAM LINK
	9 p.m.*	Highlights	NBCSN \| STREAM LINK

Biathlon World Cup — Hochfilzen, Austria

Day	Time (ET)	Event	Platform
Friday	5:25 a.m.	Men’s 10km Sprint	Olympic Channel \| Peacock
	8:15 a.m.	Women’s 7.5km Sprint	Olympic Channel \| Peacock
Saturday	6:15 a.m.	Men’s 12.5km Pursuit	Peacock \| STREAM LINK
	8:15 a.m.	Women’s Relay	Peacock \| STREAM LINK
	9 a.m.*	Men’s 12.5km Pursuit	Olympic Channel \| STREAM LINK
	10 a.m.*	Women’s Relay	Olympic Channel \| STREAM LINK
	4 p.m.*	Men’s 10km Sprint	NBCSN \| STREAM LINK
	11 p.m.*	Men’s 12.5km Pursuit	NBCSN \| STREAM LINK
Sunday	5:45 a.m.	Men’s Relay	Peacock \| STREAM LINK
	8:30 a.m.	Women’s 10km Pursuit	Peacock \| STREAM LINK
	9 a.m.*	Men’s Relay	Olympic Channel \| STREAM LINK
	10:30 a.m.*	Women’s 10km Pursuit	Olympic Channel \| STREAM LINK
	5:30 p.m.*	Men’s Relay	NBCSN \| STREAM LINK
	7 p.m.*	Women’s 10km Pursuit	NBCSN \| STREAM LINK
	8 p.m.*	Women’s 7.5km Sprint	NBCSN \| STREAM LINK
	11 p.m.*	Women’s Relay	NBCSN \| STREAM LINK

Cross-Country Skiing World Cup — Davos, Switzerland

Day	Time (ET)	Event	Platform
Saturday	8:15 a.m.	Men’s/Women’s Sprints	Peacock \| STREAM LINK
Sunday	5:40 a.m.	Men’s 15km	Peacock \| STREAM LINK
	8 a.m.	Women’s 10km	Peacock \| STREAM LINK

Ski Jumping World Cup — Klingenthal, Germany

Day	Time (ET)	Event	Platform
Friday	9 a.m.	Women	Peacock \| STREAM LINK
	1:15 p.m.	Men Qualifying	Peacock \| STREAM LINK
Saturday	4:30 a.m.	Women	Peacock \| STREAM LINK
	10 a.m.	Men	Peacock \| STREAM LINK
Sunday	10 a.m.	Men	Peacock \| STREAM LINK

Nordic Combined World Cup — Otepaa, Estonia

Day	Time (ET)	Event	Platform
Saturday	3:30 a.m.	Men’s Ski Jump	Peacock \| STREAM LINK
	5 a.m.	Women’s Ski Jump	Peacock \| STREAM LINK
	9:30 a.m.	Men’s 10km	Peacock \| STREAM LINK
	10:30 a.m.	Women’s 5km	Peacock \| STREAM LINK
Sunday	6:30 a.m.	Women’s Ski Jump	Peacock \| STREAM LINK
	7:45 a.m.	Men’s Ski Jump	Peacock \| STREAM LINK
	9:30 a.m.	Men’s 10km	Peacock \| STREAM LINK
	10:30 a.m.	Women’s 5km	Peacock \| STREAM LINK

Freestyle Skiing World Cup — Val Thorens, France (Ski Cross), Ruka, Finland (Aerials), Idre Fjall, Sweden (Moguls)

Day	Time (ET)	Event	Platform
Friday	3:45 a.m.	Ski Cross	Peacock \| STREAM LINK
	9:30 a.m.	Aerials	Peacock \| STREAM LINK
Saturday	3:40 a.m.	Women’s Aerials	Peacock \| STREAM LINK
	5:30 a.m.	Ski Cross	Peacock \| STREAM LINK
	6:15 a.m.	Men’s Aerials	Peacock \| STREAM LINK
	7 a.m.	Moguls	Peacock \| STREAM LINK
	9:30 a.m.	Team Aerials	Peacock \| STREAM LINK
Sunday	7 a.m.	Dual Moguls	Peacock \| STREAM LINK

Snowboarding World Cup — Montafon, Austria (Snowboard Cross) and Bannoye, Russia (Alpine)

Day	Time (ET)	Event	Platform
Friday	7 a.m.	Snowboard Cross	Peacock \| STREAM LINK
Saturday	3 a.m.	Parallel Giant Slalom	Peacock \| STREAM LINK
	5 a.m.	Team Snowboard Cross	Peacock \| STREAM LINK
Sunday	2:30 a.m.	Parallel Slalom	Peacock \| STREAM LINK

*Delayed broadcast

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Fred Kerley wins 100m at Rabat Diamond League in early showdown

By OlympicTalkMay 28, 2023, 3:29 PM EDT

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World champion Fred Kerley won the 100m in an early season showdown at a Diamond League meet in Rabat, Morocco, on Sunday.

Kerley clocked 9.94 seconds, beating a field that included Kenyan Ferdinand Omanyala, who remains the world’s fastest man this year (9.84 from May 13) and world bronze medalist Trayvon Bromell. Omanyala was third in 10.05 on Sunday, while Bromell was fifth in 10.10.

Kerley has run three 100m races this year and broke 9.95 in all of them, a strong start as he bids to repeat as world champion in Budapest in August.

Full meet results are here.

The Diamond League season continues with a meet in Florence, Italy, on Friday, live on Peacock. The headline event is the men’s 100m including Kerley and Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs of Italy. Kerley and Jacobs were due to go head to head in Rabat, but Jacobs withdrew last Thursday due to nerve pain.

Earlier, Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen of Norway comfortably took the 1500m in 3:32.59. American Yared Nuguse surged to place second in a personal best 3:33.02 in his Diamond League debut after running the world’s second-fastest indoor mile in history in February.

Jamaican Rasheed Broadbell ran down world champion Grant Holloway in the 110m hurdles, prevailing 13.08 to 13.12 into a headwind. Holloway remains fastest in the world this year at 13.03.

Kenyan Emmanuel Korir, the Olympic and world champion, finished eighth in the 800m won by countryman Emmanuel Wanyonyi. Wanyonyi, 18, is the world’s fastest in 2023.

American Shamier Little won the 400m hurdles in 53.95, becoming second-fastest in the world this year behind countrywoman Britton Wilson. Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, the Olympic and world champion and world record holder, has yet to compete this outdoor season and so far has strictly committed to flat 400m races in future meets. McLaughlin-Levrone has a bye into the world championships 400m hurdles but may run the flat 400m there instead.

In the 400m, Olympic champion Steven Gardiner of the Bahamas won in 44.70, while world bronze medalist Matthew Hudson-Smith of Great Britain pulled up about 50 meters into the race.

Also Sunday, world bronze medalist Anna Hall improved from No. 3 to No. 2 on the U.S. all-time heptathlon list with 6,988 points to win the Hypo Meeting in Götzis, Austria. Only Jackie Joyner-Kersee, the world record holder at 7,291, has scored higher among Americans.

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2023 French Open women’s singles draw, bracket

By OlympicTalkMay 28, 2023, 2:50 PM EDT

At the French Open, Iga Swiatek of Poland eyes a third title at Roland Garros and a fourth Grand Slam singles crown overall.

Main draw play began Sunday, live on Peacock.

Swiatek, the No. 1 seed from Poland, can join Serena Williams and Justine Henin as the lone women to win three or more French Opens since 2000.

Turning 22 during the tournament, she can become the youngest woman to win three French Opens since Monica Seles in 1992 and the youngest woman to win four Slams overall since Williams in 2002.

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But Swiatek is not as dominant as in 2022, when she went 16-0 in the spring clay season during an overall 37-match win streak.

She retired from her most recent match with a right thigh injury last week and said it wasn’t serious. Before that, she lost the final of another clay-court tournament to Australian Open champion Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus.

Sabalenka, the No. 2 seed, and Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan, the No. 4 seed and Wimbledon champion, are the top challengers in Paris.

No. 3 Jessica Pegula and No. 6 Coco Gauff, runner-up to Swiatek last year, are the best hopes to become the first American to win a Grand Slam singles title since Sofia Kenin at the 2020 Australian Open. The 11-major drought is the longest for U.S. women since Seles won the 1996 Australian Open.

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