By: Melissa S. Wollering
Part two in this three-part series will help you earn a Gold Medal in Olympic Channel Surfing. Yesterday, we gave you dozens of reasons to watch by telling you about all of the Olympic athletes from the Midwest.
Today, we offer you the verbal genius you’ll need to repetitively make excuses as to why you’re not available for the next month or so. Go ahead, spending copious amounts of time watching Linsdey Vonn and the snowboarder who resembles Carrot Top but is named the Flying Tomato. Welcome to your Guide to the Vancouver Olympics!
Today, we help you navigate the channels and figure out WHEN to watch….
MSNBC & CNBC are your home-bases for Hockey with more than 54 televised games combined and nighttime replays of earlier live broadcasts. The Men’s Bronze Medal Game will be on CNBC. Eighteen Curling matches will also be shown on that channel.
USA Network is another home-base for Curling and Hockey, with nine Curling matches including the Women’s Bronze Medal Contest. Team USA with Wisconsin’s own Deb McCormick and her fellow teammates could vie for the Bronze. That is, if they’re not vying for Gold. There will be six great Hockey matchups on USA as well.
Universal HD will become the Sportscenter highlights network, for all-intensive purposes.
Universal Sports appears to be the BBC World News of the Olympics with more in-depth journalistic pieces from around the globe. And since this increases the chance you’ll hear stories spoken in bloody wicked British accents, I’m endorsing as much consumption of this channel as possible.
Now we offer the day-by-day tv viewing schedule for the first five days. Each week, we’ll recap important highlights and tell you what’s worth watching in the days ahead.
Day 1, February 12: Just drape any country’s flag of choice around yourself, cement your keister to the davenport (that’s couch in some cultures) and cheer for countries with fewer than 25 Olympians. Heck, those warm-weather climates are representing, so let’s parade them in front of the world for traveling to Vancouver to freeze their tails off Cool Runnings-style. Jamaica, we got a bobsled team…
Day 2, February 13: you night owls can wait until Midnight and watch the Opening Ceremonies again if you wish on NBC. There’s some Ski Jump qualifying going on at the same time, too. From 1-5 p.m. CST Saturday, the first Gold Medals in the Ski Jump will be awarded and the Men’s 5000m Speedskaters begin competition. In primetime, Apolo Ohno takes a crack at the 1500m; and Men’s Downhill and Women’s Moguls Skiing speed things up.
CNBC kicks off the afternoon with blondes vs. blondes. Switzerland takes on Sweden in Women’s Hockey. Ja, ja!
Day 3, February 14: A love of sports is in the air…and you might fall in love with a sport the U.S. has never competed in before, the Nordic Combined. Also take in more Speedskating, Luge and Biathlon starting at Noon CST on NBC. The smaller networks have more Women’s Hockey, including Team USA vs. China on USA Network at 2 p.m. EST. You’ll be able to see 12 women from the Midwest represent Team USA in that game.
If she’s healthy enough to compete after suffering a deep muscle bruise on her shin last week in practice, you can ask Linsdey Vonn to be your Valentine via television. She’s not from the Midwest but her grandparents reside in Wisconsin. Pending her condition, set aside primetime for her Women’s Combined and some crazy Pairs Figure Skating.
Day 4, February 15: On your lunch, you could catch Women’s Cross-Country or Men’s Snowboard qualifying. Pairs Figure Skating concludes during primetime, and most importantly, our own Tucker Fredricks skates the 500m. Tucker is a Janesville, Wisconsin native and a personal friend, so GO TUCKER GOLD! Shani Davis from Illinois will also compete in this event, his second of four individual events. No one’s done that in thirty years, since Eric Heiden.
Day 5, February 16: At 4 p.m. on CNBC, Wisconsin’s Deb McCormick and Team USA take on Japan in Women’s Curling. Men’s Curling gets underway on USA in the afternoon, but not before Team USA Men’s Hockey takes on Switzerland on USA at 11 a.m. In Women’s Hockey, the cold war is back on, as the USA takes on Russia on MSNBC at 4:30 p.m.
Get in touch with your feminine side for the Men’s Figure Skating short program (or don’t) during primetime on Day 5. Evan Lysacek from Naperville, Illinois is a heavy favorite, so don’t miss him. Or just wait to see some more Snowboarding and Speedskating.
Check back again this week for:
Friday: Name That Flag, A Guide to the Coolest Countries’ Sky Bling
Also, be sure to check out Teamusa.org. Anyone who registers on Teamusa.org will have access to the latest info and will receive exclusive updates throughout the games.
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