Coverage of the 2022 Winter Olympics wraps up Sunday with the Closing Ceremony, which will air live from Beijing National Stadium on Peacock, NBCOlympics.com and the NBC Sports app beginning at 7 a.m. ET/4 a.m. PT. NBC and Peacock will rebroadcast the finale gala in an “enhanced primetime presentation” beginning Sunday night at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT.
John Shuster and Brittany Bowe announced as Team USA flag bearers for 2022 Winter Olympics
02.02.2022 - 22:32 / hellomagazine.com
Team USA has announced that John Shuster and Brittany Bowe will carry the American flag at Friday's Winter Olympics opening ceremony.MORE: Two Canadian Olympians got engaged – and their photos and joy will warm your heartJohn, 39, will make history as the first curler to carry the flag during the opening ceremony. The five-time Olympian called it the "biggest honor" ever.
Speed skater Brittany has replaced Elana Meyers Taylor, after the 37-year-old bobsledder tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday.WATCH: The stars of the 2016 Rio Olympics party with HELLO! at the Team GB BallElana called Brittany to tell her the news the same morning that the official pictures with Elana were released. The four-time Olmypian told Today: "I can't think of a better honor, other than walking by myself, than having the opportunity to give to Brittany."Brittany is an absolutely amazing human being."MORE: Tom Daley shares heartwarming video of reuniting with his family in England and Canada after OlympicsBrittany is a three-time Olympian, and she added: "To get called into the [U.S.
Olympic & Paralympic Committee] room for a phone call, and then it was Elana on the phone, presenting me with the honor of carrying the flag on her behalf — what an honor, a privilege. For once, completely at a loss for words.""The honor of a lifetime.
Congratulations to @Shoostie2010 and @eamslider24 for being elected #TeamUSA's Opening Ceremony flag bearers at the #WinterOlympics," Team USA tweeted on Wednesday before the switch was confirmed. Brittany Bowe has replaced Elana Meyers TaylorThe UK's Princess Royal was scheduled to attend but she will no longer attend due to "COVID travel restriction difficulties".The Queen's only daughter, 71, who became the
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18.02.2022 / 21:19
Simone Biles supports Winter Olympics star Mikaela Shiffrin after heartbreaking message to fans
Simone Biles has shared her support for Winter Olympics star Mikaela Shiffrin after she posted a heartbreaking message to fans.MORE: Simone Biles is engaged! See the heartwarming proposal and stunning ringMikaela took to social media to share a powerful message about the online hate and trolling she has received as she struggled through the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. Mikeala was one of Team USA's big hopefuls but she failed to finish the women's combined event, and lost control during the opening few seconds of her run in the giant slalom; Mikeala was defending her 2018 gold medal.WATCH: Simone Biles falls off mat during Tokyo 2020 qualifying roundsShe fell and skied out, ending her 30-race streak, and ended up being disqualified from the event."I know this all too well.
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15.02.2022 / 19:00
Olympics Let Russian Figure Skater Kamila Valieva Compete Following Drug Test Fail -- And Sha’Carri Richardson Has THOUGHTS!
American track and field star Sha’Carri Richardson is RIGHTFULLY calling out what appears to be a major double standard at this year’s Winter Olympics. And we’re here for her take!
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11.02.2022 / 18:27
'Cool Runnings' Star Malik Yoba Is Rooting For Jamaican Bobsled Team In 2022 Winter Olympics
2022 Winter Olympics. The 54-year-old American actor appeared on Thursday's episode of , and revealed that he was rooting for the Jamaicans this year, after starring as a member of the country's 1988 Olympic team in the classic film .«After doing a movie like , you always feel like you're part of the country,» Yoba said, speaking in the Jamaican accent he used in the 1993 film. «I have to root for Jamaica.
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10.02.2022 / 06:09
Why Are People Boycotting the 2022 Winter Olympics?
the Washington Post . Survivors of the camps have reported acts of torture, rape, and forced sterilization. Though China to have closed the camps, in 2020 a BuzzFeed News revealed that the government had built “high-security camps—some capable of housing tens of thousands of people” in which to forcibly house Uyghurs.
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09.02.2022 / 22:45
Lindsey Jacobellis Just Won Team USA Its First Gold of the Winter Olympics
Today. “Because it really shaped me into the individual that I am.
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08.02.2022 / 21:49
Primetime 2022 Winter Olympics Coverage Dips On Monday; ‘9-1-1: Lone Star’ & ‘The Bachelor’ Also Fall
Figure skater Nathan Chen brought glory to the United States on the ice during Monday’s primetime coverage of the 2022 Winter Olympics, shattering the world record in the men’s short program at the Beijing games. Nabbing 113.97 points, Chen brought in the highest short program score in figure skating history. Monday saw new highs for Chen and the winter sport, not for NBC’s fifth night of coverage, or at least in early numbers.
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07.02.2022 / 13:05
Watch US ice skating pair perform to Daft Punk at the Winter Olympics
Daft Punk’s music made an unlikely appearance at the Winter Olympics yesterday (February 6).A medley featuring a series of tracks from the former dance duo’s final album ‘Random Access Memories’ was used to soundtrack a routine in the US figure skating Team Event in Beijing.The team were sitting in third place behind Japan in a battle for the silver medal before Madison Chock and Evan Bates performed their Daft Punk routine which included snippets of ‘Within’, ‘Contact’ and ‘Touch’.As a result the team picked up the silver medal. You can view the pair’s routine below.#NBCOlympics #WinterOlympics2022 #TeamUSAUSA's Chock/Bates channel Daft Punk to win team ice dance | Winter Olympics 2022 | NBC Sports pic.twitter.com/PCmjpiqKLL— Pitbull (@Willian87420216) February 7, 2022Daft Punk split last February after 28 years together.
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06.02.2022 / 03:23
TV Ratings: Beijing Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony Draws 16 Million Viewers, Down 43% From 2018 Games
Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterNBC Sports says 16 million viewers tuned in to watch the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics opening ceremony on Friday, an all-time low for Olympic ceremonies on linear television.That’s around 43% down compared to the 28.3 million viewers that watched the PyeongChang Winter Olympics opening ceremony in February 2018.Friday’s torch-lighting in Beijing aired live on NBC and the streaming service Peacock beginning at 6:30 a.m. ET yesterday morning and was replayed again in primetime.