Colorado to Italy: Mikaela Shiffrin to ski into action, 4 in-state athletes to make Olympic debut Tuesday
Tracking Coloradans competing in the Olympic Winter Games
Mikaela Shiffrin, the two-time Olympic gold medalist, will begin her Winter Games in the early morning hours Tuesday as she teams with newly minted downhill gold medalist Breezy Johnson in the alpine skiing women’s team combined.
Finals for the event were at 2:30 a.m.
Shiffrin, who was born in Vail and lives in Edwards, hasn’t captured an Olympic medal since 2018. She wasn’t able to medal in 2022.
– A pair of Coloradans will be in the field for men’s freestyle skiing moguls.
Charlie Mickel, a 21-year-old who grew up in Durango, and Landon Wendler, a 24-year-old from Steamboat Springs, will be making their Olympic debut in qualifying that begins at 3:15 a.m. Tuesday.
The second round of qualifying will be 2 a.m. Thursday, with finals following at 4:15 a.m. Thursday.
– Cross-country skier Lauren Jortberg, born and raised in Boulder, will make her Olympic debut in qualifying for the women’s sprint classic early Tuesday.
Finals will be held at 5:24 a.m. Tuesday.
Jortberg, 28, ran track and cross country at Boulder High School and graduated from Dartmouth.
– Steamboat Springs’ Niklas Malacinski, 22, will compete in the official training for the Nordic combined normal hill on Tuesday morning.
It will be the Olympic debut for Malacinski, a dual citizen in Finland and the United States who is fluent in Finnish, English and German.
– Jason Colby of Steamboat Springs was the top American, finishing 20th in the ski jumping men’s normal hill on Monday with 252.3 points.
Germany’s Philipp Raimund took gold with a total score of 274.1.
Colby will be back in action on Tuesday as part of the ski jumping mixed team, along with Steamboat Springs’ Annika Belshaw. The trial rounds begin at 9:30 a.m., with eight of the 12 teams qualifying for the noon finals.
– The Colorado team of Kyle Negomir (Littleton) and River Radamus (Edwards) represented the U.S. in the alpine skiing men’s team combined competition on Monday, finishing 19th.
They were 3.3 seconds off the pace of the winning tandem from Switzerland.
BROADCAST SCHEDULE
All items streaming on Peacock in addition to the network listed. This does not include re-airing of events.
Bold indicates medals will be awarded.
TUESDAY
1:15 a.m. – Cross country skiing (Men’s and women’s sprint classic: Qualifying), USA
2:30 a.m. – Alpine skiing (Women’s team combined: Downhill), USA
2:30 a.m. – Speed skating (Mixed team short track relay finals)
3:45 a.m. – Freestyle skiing (Men’s moguls: Qualifying Round 1), USA
4 a.m. – Figure skating (Training)
4:10 a.m. – Cross-country skiing (Men’s and women’s sprint classic: Finals), USA
4:10 a.m. – Women’s hockey (Japan vs. Sweden)
4:30 a.m. – Freestyle skiing (Men’s freeski slopestyle: Final), USA
5:30 a.m. – Biathlon (Men’s 20 km individual)
6 a.m. – Alpine skiing (Women’s team combined: Slalom), USA
6:15 a.m. – Freestyle skiing (Women’s moguls: Qualifying Round 1)
7 a.m. – Curling (Mixed doubles bronze final), USA
8:30 a.m. – Freestyle skiing (Women’s moguls: Qualifying Round 1), USA
8:40 a.m. – Women’s hockey (Italy vs. Germany)
9 a.m. – Luge (Women’s singles: Run 3), USA
9:05 a.m. – Figure skating (Men’s short: Warm-up)
9:30 a.m. – Ski jumping (Mixed team normal hill)
9:30 a.m. – Curling (Mixed doubles gold final), USA
10:45 a.m. – Luge (Women’s singles: Final run), NBC
11:45 a.m. – Figure skating (Men’s short program), NBC
12:10 p.m. – Women’s hockey (Canada vs. USA), USA
1:10 p.m. – Women’s hockey (Finland vs. Switzerland)
(Primetime coverage on NBC begins at 7 p.m. with re-airing of highlights and events that are to TBD)
WEDNESDAY
2 a.m. – Ski jumping (Nordic combined men’s normal hill), USA
2:45 a.m. – Snowboard (Women’s halfpipe: Qualifying), USA
3 a.m. – Freestyle skiing (Women’s moguls: Qualifying)
3:30 a.m. – Alpine skiing (Men’s Super-G), USA
4:20 a.m. – Figure skating (Training)
4:45 a.m. – Snowboard (Women’s halfpipe: qualifying), USA
5:30 a.m. – Freestyle skiing (Women’s moguls: Qualifying), USA
5:45 a.m. – Nordic combined (Men’s normal hill: 10 km)
6:15 a.m. – Biathlon (Women’s 15 km individual), USA
6:15 a.m. – Freestyle skiing (Women’s moguls: Final)
8:40 a.m. – Hockey (Slovakia vs. Finland), USA
9 a.m. – Figure skating (Free dance: warm-up)
9 a.m. – Luge (Men’s & women’s doubles), USA
10 a.m. – Freestyle skiing (Women’s moguls), NBC
10:30 a.m. – Speed skating (Men’s 1,000 meter), NBC
10:45 a.m. – Luge (Women’s doubles), USA
10:55 a.m. – Luge (Women’s doubles), NBC
11:05 a.m. – Curling (Mixed doubles: USA vs. Czechia, Sweden vs. Italy, Canada vs. Germany, China vs. Great Britain)
11:40 a.m. – Snowboard (Men’s halfpipe: Qualifying), NBC
12:15 p.m. – Figure skating (Free dance), NBC
12:15 p.m. – Snowboard (Men’s halfpipe: Qualifying), USA
1:25 p.m. – Hockey (Sweden vs. Italy), USA
(Primetime coverage on NBC begins at 7 p.m. with re-airing of highlights and events that are TBD)
