“They just skate in such a difficult, difficult way. They hold nothing back and it just leads to this dream world that we get to watch.” – Johnny Weir on Madison Hubbell and Zach Donohue’s rhythm dance performance
“She has been up against so many issues leading into these Games. There is no more talented bobsled pilot in the world than Kaillie Humphries.” – Bree Schaaf on Team USA’s Kaillie Humphries, who leads women’s monobob after two runs
“I’m not having FOMO, that’s for sure.” – Ted Ligety on snowy conditions for men’s giant slalom
“Super Gold Sunday” Coverage on NBC and Peacock Begins Tomorrow (Feb. 13) with Winter Olympics Action at 8 a.m. ET
Following Super Bowl LVI Postgame, Live Coverage from Beijing Continues with the Winter Olympics Primetime Show at Approximately 10:45 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock Featuring Gold Medals Awarded in Ice Dance and Monobob
STAMFORD, Conn. – Feb. 12, 2022 – NBC Olympics continued its primetime coverage of the 2022 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing, China, tonight on NBC and Peacock. Mike Tirico serves as NBC Olympics primetime host and opened coverage from the field of SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles. Tirico will host tomorrow’s primetime coverage and Super Bowl LVI Pregame Show on NBC and Peacock from SoFi Stadium. He returns to Stamford on Monday where he will anchor the remainder of the Games.
Opening tonight’s primetime show, Tirico said: “Los Angeles, California, on an early Saturday evening out here that feels a little bit like Christmas Eve for sports fans. It’s the eve of Super Bowl Sunday which kicks off tomorrow at magnificent SoFi Stadium…We’re thrilled to be here tonight as the anticipation builds for the game, and also bring you all the action from across the world on this middle weekend of the Olympics in Beijing as a sports weekend like none before it – the Super Bowl and the Olympics, together – continues here on NBC.”
As part of NBC Sports’ “Super Gold Sunday” -- when the 2022 Winter Olympics and Super Bowl LVI converge to create the biggest day in sports media history – tomorrow’s Olympics coverage begins live at 8 a.m. ET on NBC and Peacock and continues in primetime following Super Bowl LVI.
NBC Sports’ Feb. 13 Schedule on NBC and Peacock (all times ET):
| 8 a.m. | 2022 Winter Olympics |
| Noon | Road to the Super Bowl |
| 1 p.m. | Super Bowl LVI Pregame Show |
| 6:30 p.m. | Super Bowl LVI |
| 10:45 p.m. | 2022 Winter Olympics Primetime Show |
| Midnight | Late Local News* |
| 12:30 p.m. | 2022 Winter Olympics Prime Plus Show |
| *NBC only | |
Highlights of upcoming coverage include:
- As part of NBC Sports’ “Super Gold Sunday,” following the Lombardi Trophy presentation to the Super Bowl champion, live coverage from Beijing continues with the Winter Olympics Primetime Show at approximately 10:45 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock, which will feature gold medals awarded in ice dance and monobob
- Heading into the ice dance finals, Team USA’s Madison Hubbell and Zach Donohue are in third place, and Madison Chock and Evan Bates sit in fourth
- In monobob, Team USA’s Kaillie Humphries is in first place heading into the final heat, and Elana Meyers Taylor is in fourth
- Live 2022 Winter Olympics coverage will get underway tomorrow at 8 a.m. ET on NBC and Peacock with the men’s speed skating team pursuit quarterfinals
- The U.S. men’s ice hockey team concludes pool play tomorrow when they face Germany live at 8:10 a.m. ET on USA Network and Peacock (NBC will air a portion of the matchup)
- As part of NBC Sports’ “Super Gold Sunday,” following the Lombardi Trophy presentation to the Super Bowl champion, live coverage from Beijing continues with the Winter Olympics Primetime Show at approximately 10:45 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock, which will feature gold medals awarded in ice dance and monobob
Following are highlights from tonight’s primetime coverage of the Winter Olympics on the platforms of NBCUniversal:
FIGURE SKATING – NBC & PEACOCK
Johnny Weir on Madison Hubbell and Zach Donohue’s rhythm dance routine: “They skate so big, so eloquently. The depth of edge is just insane…That’s the best I’ve seen them skate that rhythm dance all season. Just so strong, so secure…They just skate in such a difficult, difficult way. They hold nothing back and it just leads to this dream world that we get to watch.”
Tanith White on Hubbell and Donohue: “Such a good program. I mean, that’s how you close a show. The performance level is so high. We saw it in the team event how they brought that energy that fun to the last section, I was so happy to see that come back at the end of this program.”
Weir on Madison Chock and Evan Bates: “Much like the music of Billie Eilish, their skating gets stuck in your head…They have the best lifts in the world…That passion -- they’re like strawberries and champagne. They’re bubbly and they’re rich and I just love it.”
White on Chock and Bates: “They really attacked that performance. There was that one little slip, but every moment of this choreography just has these little treasures in it. All of those small details – even just the way that she looks at him, looks at the audience. I mean it’s hypnotic, she’s mesmerizing as a performer…It’s really important to note that there are mistakes that happen outside of the moments that are most closely scrutinized by the technical panel, which are less costly because they occurred in a sort of in-between moment.”
White on Kaitlin Hawayek and Jean-Luc Baker: “It is so nice to see them on an Olympic stage. They have absolutely owned this opportunity. They have been the third team in the U.S. for some time, a top-10 team in the world, but they have had to deal with ongoing injuries for a number of years. (It’s) always just kept them slightly from what their ceiling could be from one season to the next, and now they get to capitalize on this opportunity.”
Weir on France’s Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron: “They’ve got angel whispers under their blades, it’s like they’re skating on clouds.”
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MONOBOB – NBC & PEACOCK
Leigh Diffey on monobob’s Olympic debut: “There is a lot of excitement here at the house of speed, and the reason why is monobob is making its long-awaited and highly-anticipated Olympic debut.”
Bree Schaaf: “Allow us to introduce you to monobob, where the driver becomes the breakman…The women’s monobob is much lighter than the two-women sled. Not only are you missing your breakman, but the sled itself is lighter so it is much harder to control, and you don’t have that weight in the back to give you the glue in the corner.”
Schaaf on what it’s like to try and drive a monobob: “It’s like taking a front-wheel drive car with summer tires out on an icy road. You have so little control, they’re constantly skidding out from under you - it takes a very delicate touch.”
Schaaf on Team USA’s Elana Meyers Taylor recovering from Covid: “When (she) is confident, she is unstoppable. The question is, was she able to get enough practice runs to gain that confidence for this race? … Elana is one of the top starters and one of the strongest women I have ever met in my life…She is an incredible athlete and physical force in this sport.”
Schaaf on Team USA’s Kaillie Humphries’ first run: “Kaillie is one of the best pilots, best drivers in the world, and that was a true testament. To keep this monobob stable on an unstable track is truly impressive.”
Schaaf on Humphries: “She has been up against so many issues leading into these Games. There is no more talented bobsled pilot in the world than Kaillie Humphries.”
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ALPINE SKIING – NBC & PEACOCK
Ted Ligety on the difficult conditions for the men’s giant slalom: “Watching this, I’m not having FOMO, that’s for sure. Makes me happy when I see a really tight course where guys are struggling to make a clean turn – I’ll leave that for the young guns.”
Lindsey Vonn to Mike Tirico on the snowy conditions: “We’ve been talking about the man-made snow problem the whole Olympic Games, and now we have the opposite problem – too much snow. The combination has led to a really bumpy course, and the visibility is really bad. When you combine those two things, it really feels like a rodeo ride for these athletes. They are struggling to make it down, fighting for every inch that they can.”
Vonn on adjusting to conditions on the mountain: “That’s why it’s so hard in alpine skiing. You wait for four years for the Olympics and your one moment, and it’s a blizzard with a really bad combination of snow conditions. You just have to do the best you can in that moment. I’ve been there many times and whatever hand you’re dealt, you have to do the best you can with it.”
Steve Porino on Team USA’s River Radamus’ first run: “He has that fight. Made a couple of errors, but he continued with that same pattern of skiing -- that high-edge angle. That is what is required to make time here…Pretty solid skiing.”
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ABOUT NBC OLYMPICS
NBCUniversal will provide coverage of the 2022 Olympic Winter Games from Feb. 2-20. The Opening Ceremony will be presented on Friday, Feb. 4, live in the morning and again in primetime on NBC and Peacock. Similar to recent Winter Games, NBC’s primetime Olympic coverage begins the night before the Opening Ceremony on Thursday, Feb. 3. Coverage begins on Wednesday, Feb. 2, on USA Network and Peacock. NBCUniversal is presenting its 18th Olympic Games, 12th consecutive overall, and sixth straight Winter Games, all the most by any U.S. media company.
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