2014 Winter Olympics – Day 6 Podcast and Day 7 Schedule

Day 6 was a crazy day for Team USA – no spoilers in the text here but listen to the podcast just below for the whole rundown of today’s events!  Primetime coverage is still going on, so I won’t spoil your fun.

Tomorrow is a big day with medal events in skiing, women’s snowboarding halfpipe, figure skating pairs, speed skating and luge. Men’s hockey also begins, while women’s hockey and curling continues.

2014 Olympic Winter Games – Feb. 12 Schedule 

(ALL TIMES EASTERN)

* – Medal Event
^ – Televised Live

• 12:00 a.m.: Curling, Men’s Qualification Round-Robin
  Denmark vs. USA (airing at 3 a.m. on NBC Sports Network)
  Norway vs. Germany
  China vs. Switzerland
• *2:00 a.m.: Alpine Skiing, Women’s Downhill
• ^3:00 a.m.: Ice Hockey, Women’s Group A Play – Switzerland vs. Finland (MSNBC)
• ^4:30 a.m.: Nordic Combined, Individual Normal Hill – Ski Jump (NBC Sports Network)
• 5:00 a.m.: Snowboarding, Women’s Halfpipe, Qualification
• 5:00 a.m.: Curling, Women’s Qualification Round-Robin
  ^USA vs. China (USA Network)
  Japan vs. Russia
  South Korea vs. Sweden
  Canada vs. Great Britain
• *7:30 a.m.: Nordic Combined, Individual Normal Hill – Cross-Country
• ^7:30 a.m.: Women’s Ice Hockey, Group A Play – Canada vs. USA (NBC Sports Network)
• *9:00 a.m.: Speed Skating, Men’s 1000m
• *9:15 a.m.: Luge Doubles
• 10:00 a.m.: Snowboarding, Women’s Halfpipe, Semifinals
• 10:00 a.m.:  Curling, Men’s Qualification Round-Robin
  Germany vs. China
  Switzerland vs. Great Britain
  Russia vs. Canada
  Denmark vs. Sweden
• *^10:45 a.m.: Figure Skating, Team Pairs Free Skate (NBC Sports Network)
• ^12:00 p.m.: Ice Hockey, Men’s Group C Play
  Czech Republic vs. Sweden (USA Network)
  Latvia vs. Switzerland (MSNBC)
• *12:30 p.m.: Snowboarding, Women’s Halfpipe, Final

2014 Winter Olympics Podcast – Day 3

Hi all. Here’s today’s podcast, summarizing Day 3 and leading into Day 4, which includes a number of medal events and the close of figure skating team competition. ALERT: This podcast contains spoilers about events on February 8. (Skip ahead to about 2:15 in to avoid and just hear tomorrow’s schedule.) NBC’s primetime coverage begins tonight at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time.

Stay tuned to the blog for a text schedule posted for tomorrow’s action, with TV times as well. Note that Team USA action begins very early Sunday morning, so stay up if you want to catch them live.

We will also post a guide to viewing the Olympics live or streaming without spoilers.

Thanks for listening!

2014 Winter Olympics Podcast – Day 1 & 2

Welcome to my blog coverage and commentary for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia!

If you’re familiar with my Olympics blogging from two years ago in London, welcome back and thanks for reading! I plan to bring back several of the features from 2012, including the daily rundown of events and TV listings, as well as guest posts on the winter sports, life in Russia, Team USA fashion and much more.

Additionally, I will post a podcast each morning highlighting the previous day’s events and plugging the current day’s schedule and TV listings.

Here’s today’s podcast, summarizing Day 1 and leading into Friday’s Opening Ceremony, which you can watch tape-delayed on NBC’s coverage beginning at 7:30 p.m. Eastern Time. (The Ceremony begins at 11 a.m. ET if you want to find a live stream online.) Sochi, Russia, is 9 hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time in the U.S., so get used to the tape-delay, or inform your employer you’ll be sick “for the next two weeks or so” to catch the streams online.

Thanks for listening!

UPDATE:  The podcast indicates that only Jamie Anderson and Karly Shorr of Team USA qualified for the slopestyle final round. Anderson’s and Shorr’s performances earned them automatic bids in the final heat for slopestyle, while the five remaining Americans on the slopestyle team have the opportunity to earn bids via the semifinal rounds this weekend. Shaun White has already withdrawn from this event due to an injured wrist, but he’s good to go thus far for the halfpipe – his signature event.