NBC SportsShaun White begins Olympic season; winter sports broadcast schedule
Shaun White begins his build-up to a potential fifth Olympics (and fourth gold medal), live this week on NBC Sports and Peacock.
Associated PressCanada joins US and allies in Beijing Olympics boycott
Canada will join the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia in a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics over human rights concerns, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Wednesday. The announcement came after the White House, the Australian government and the UK government confirmed diplomatic boycotts of the Winter Games in February to protest Chinese human rights abuses. China has vowed to react with “firm countermeasures.”
NBC SportsKjetil Jansrud, Olympic Alpine skiing champ, out for season
Olympic Alpine skiing champion Kjetil Jansrud of Norway will undergo season-ending knee surgery after a race crash last week.
NBC SportsNatalie Geisenberger, Olympic luge champion, mulls skipping Beijing Games
ALTENBERG, Germany — Natalie Geisenberger of Germany, the two-time defending women’s Olympic luge champion, is considering skipping the Beijing Games because of her dissatisfaction with the way athletes were treated by Chinese officials when training there earlier this season. Geisenberger made the revelation Wednesday in an interview with German regional broadcaster BR. It would be
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