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PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games opening ceremony will be at 6:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. on
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Live Stream: Eurosport (UK), NBCOlympics.com (U.S.) also can sign up for a 7 day trial of fubo
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Competition for the 2018 Games starts on Thursday, February 8.
Opening ceremonies will take place the next day, Friday, February 9.
Closing ceremonies will be Sunday, February 25.

What's the time difference?
South Korea is 14 hours ahead of New York. It's 15 hours ahead of Chicago. It's 17 hours ahead of Los Angeles. It's nine hours ahead of London.



  • NBC: 176 hours of total coverage
    Daily daytime, primetime and late-night primetime plus shows from Feb. 8-25.
    Primetime is at 8PM ET each night except Sundays, when it starts at 7PM ET.
    Live primetime coverage of Alpine skiing, figure skating, snowboarding, freestyle skiing and short track speed skating.
    Daytime coverage from 3 to 5PM on weekdays and 3 to 6PM on weekends across all time zones beginning February 10th. Coverage includes speed skating, ski jumping, cross-country skiing, biathlon and luge.
  • NBCSN: 369 hours of total coverage
    Live primetime coverage for the first time, plus 10 days of 24-hour programming.
    Live men’s and women’s hockey finals.
    Medal events in biathlon, bobsled, cross-country skiing, luge, Nordic combined, short track speed skating, ski jumping, snowboarding and speed skating.
  • CNBC: 46 hours of total coverage
    Highlighted by evening curling telecasts, usually from 5 to 8PM ET.
  • USA: 40.5 hours of total coverage
    “Mostly live” coverage of curling and hockey between 7 and 9:30AM ET.

It’s here where internet TV services like Hulu, YouTube TV, Sling TV, DirecTV Now, and PlayStation Vue are going to come in handy. Almost all of them offer a free trial if you haven’t signed up before, but those won’t necessarily last long enough to cover everything. Sling TV, Hulu with Live TV, and DirecTV Now will give you seven days. YouTube TV’s trial is 14 days, which should be enough to cover everything at the Pyeongchang games. PlayStation Vue’strial is only five days.

WATCH IN VIRTUAL REALITY:
Intel has said that over 50 hours of 2018 Winter Olympics coverage will be made available to experience in virtual reality (VR). Google Daydream VR/Cardboard, Samsung Gear VR, and Windows Mixed Reality users will all be able to don headsets and experience events in 360-degree immersion. The NBC Sports VR app is what you want to install on whatever device you’re strapping to your face to get you closer to the slopes or luge track. Here’s the websitewith instructions on how to get started.
 
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Yeah, I'm officially out on CAC Olympics. :camby:

Speed skater Shani Davis hot over not being flag-bearer: 'Team USA dishonorably tossed a coin'









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On Wednesday, Team USA announced that veteran luger Erin Hamlin will be the flag-bearer for Friday’s opening ceremony at PyeongChang Olympic Stadium.

On Thursday, U.S. speed skater Shani Davis torched the decision after he lost a tiebreaker coin toss that kept him from carrying the Stars and Stripes.



“I am an American and when I won the 1000m in 2010 I became the first American to 2-peat in that event,” Davis wrote. “@TeamUSA dishonorably tossed a coin to decide its 2018 flag bearer. No problem. I can wait until 2022.”

Yikes.

It appears we have our first Team USA controversy between athletes before the opening ceremony. And it seems to be part of a larger rift among the eight U.S. winter sports federations, who couldn’t decide amongst themselves who should lead the team.

“We feel strongly toward Shani and they felt strongly for Erin,” U.S. speed skater Joey Mantia told the Associated Press. “That’s just that.”

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Erin Hamlin, left, and Shani Davis. (AP)
Each of the eight federations — bobsled and skeleton, ski and snowboarding, figure skating, curling, biathlon, hockey, speedskating and luge — nominates an athlete for the role, and it came down to a 4-4 tie between Davis and Hamlin. When a decision couldn’t be made, a coin was tossed and Hamlin was awarded the honor.

Adding to the controversy is Davis’ use of #BlackHistoryMonth2018, which begs the question of how much Davis believes race was an issue for the black speed skater in the decision.

The AP reached out to Davis and his agent, but did not get a response. They did reach his mother, who didn’t offer much insight.

“I know something about a coin toss, he told me last night,” she said Thursday. “I don’t know anything else. Is that all?”

USA Luge also declined to comment.

Davis is making his fifth Olympics appearance and is the owner of two gold and two silver medals. Hamlin is a four-time Olympian with a bronze from the Sochi games in 2014.

Maybe Team USA should add a ninth voter in the future so a flip of the coin doesn’t make such a big decision.
 
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