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  • Megan Keller’s golden goal for Team USA should go down as one of the biggest moments in Olympic history

    Megan Keller’s golden goal for Team USA should go down as one of the biggest moments in Olympic history

    When they eventually install microcameras into the corneas of our eyes, we’ll still be watching this hockey highlight.

    This was Kerri Strug vaulting on one leg in 1996. Bob Beamon shattering the long jump in Mexico City in 1968. Sid the Kid in 2010, only much, much cooler.

    It was more than historic. It was iconic.

    In overtime of the gold-medal game at the 2026 Winter Olympics, Team USA defenseman Megan Keller deked Canadian defender Claire Thompson and left her in the dust, flailing with her stick.

    Keller then beat goalie Ann-Renée Desbiens with a backhand to the short side.

    It was a golden goal worthy of the name.

    It should live as one of the great Olympic moments of all time. It should live as one of the great sporting moments of all time.

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    It’s hard to compare this Olympic moment with Romania’s Nadia Comăneci, who scored gymnastics’ first perfect 10 in 1976 at the age of 14. It’s not really the same as Usain “Lightning” Bolt, the Jamaican sprinter who broke Michael Johnson’s world record in the 200 meters in 2008 or Michael Phelps, who, at those same Beijing Games, swam his way to eight golds; their moments were parts of aggregations. And it certainly lacks the social significance of Black sprinter Jesse Owens, who won a then-record four golds in 1936 in front of host Adolf Hitler.

    Jamaica’s Usain Bolt celebrates as he wins the men’s 200-meter final with a world record during the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

    I was there for Bolt and Phelps. All of those moments took your breath away the way only great moments in sport leave you breathless.

    None was quite as magical as Keller’s golden goal.

    Sidney Crosby did something similar for Canada in 2010, and he did it against Team USA, and I was there for that, too. But Crosby’s goal was simpler: He carried the puck in, had a weak shot deflected away, got it back, went to the boards, passed to teammate Jarome Iginla, skated away from suddenly inattentive defenseman Brian Rafalski, got the pass back from Iginla, and snapped a shot past goaltender Ryan Miller.

    Hockey legend Wayne Gretzky and film legend Donald Sutherland, both great Canadians, were sitting right behind me. They’d probably disagree with my assertion here.

    Sid’s was a great play.

    Keller’s was better.

    Keller’s goal isn’t quite the same event as Team USA’s upset of the Soviets in 1980. That was a true underdog story, mostly U.S. college kids playing an elite set of professionals who’d won the last four golds. It might be the biggest upset in sports history — but it wasn’t an overtime game, or even a gold-medal game, and there was no defining, game-ending moment like Keller’s.

    Pity poor Thompson, but not too much. She’d been a hero in China with 11 assists and two goals, an Olympic record for defensemen, when the Canadians won the gold in 2022.

    There are plenty of caveats surrounding what should be the play of the year. None of them of Keller’s making.

    Megan Keller celebrates after scoring one of the best golden goals you will ever see in hockey.

    Crosby scored his goal in a four-on-four setting, but overtime rules were changed ahead of the 2022 Olympics to make it three-on-three.

    The teams in 2010 were more evenly matched, while the U.S. team in Milan, Italy, was heavily favored, having outscored opponents, 31-1, in a 6-0 run that included a 5-0 win over Canada in the preliminary round. However, Canada’s strategy and execution Thursday had the reigning champs holding onto a 1-0 lead before American captain Hilary Knight tied the game with 2 minutes, 4 seconds left in regulation.

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    Finally, no teams besides Canada (five) and the U.S. (three) have won a gold medal, and they have met in the gold-medal game seven of the eight times it has been played. To date, it is not a sport in which the field offers the titans much resistance.

    This should not diminish the moment. Keller and her teammates can only beat opponents they meet.

    This golden goal is one of the best plays you will ever see.

    In fact, as a spontaneous athletic maneuver of incomparable audacity and breathtaking skill, seizing the biggest moment in a player’s life, I struggle to find its equal.

  • What to watch Saturday at the Olympics: A Delco native goes for a medal

    What to watch Saturday at the Olympics: A Delco native goes for a medal

    There haven’t been any giant “DELCO” flags in the stands at the Olympics, at least as far as we’ve been able to tell from home. But there is a Broomall native, Taylor Anderson-Heide, going for a bronze medal in women’s curling for the United States on Saturday.

    The U.S. lost to Switzerland in the semifinals on Friday, in a match that was tightly contested throughout. You have to tip your broom to the outstanding shot by Swiss veteran Alina Pätz, a six-time world champion, that clinched the win.

    So the Americans are playing Canada for bronze, adding another chapter to their long rivalry. Unfortunately, most of it is live just on Peacock, but USA Network will pick up coverage at 9:30 a.m.

    Saturday is the last full day of Olympics action, but some other major Americans will be going for gold. We start in women’s bobsled, where the two-woman event has its last two runs.

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    Americans Kaillie Humphries and Jasmine Jones were in third after Friday’s first two runs. Kaysha Love and Azaria Hill were in fifth, while monobob champion Elana Meyers Taylor and Jadin O’Brien were in 12th.

    NBC has the first run live at 1 p.m. and the second run live at 3:05 p.m.

    Kaillie Humphries and Jasmine Jones starting one of their bobsled runs in the first rounds on Friday.

    Then there’s speedskating’s mass start, with Jordan Stolz in the men’s event going for his fourth medal in Milan. It’s an unusual 6,400-meter distance, 16 laps of the oval, and Stolz has admitted it’s “more like a bonus” for him. But it’s certainly a show, because as the name implies, it gets very crowded.

    Instead of the usual two skaters on the track, the mass start has a lot of them all at once. The top eight finishers in each semifinal advance to the final. Coverage of the finals starts at 9 a.m. on USA Network, then moves to NBC at 10 a.m. when the network comes on air for the day.

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    Saturday’s Olympic TV schedule

    As a general rule, our schedules include all live broadcasts on TV, but not tape-delayed broadcasts on cable channels. We’ll let you know what’s on NBC’s broadcasts, whether live or not.

    NBC

    • 10 a.m.: Speedskating — Men’s and women’s mass start finals
    • 11:30 a.m.: Cross-country skiing — Men’s 50km (tape-delayed)
    • 1 p.m.: Bobsled — Two-woman third run
    • 1:30 p.m.: Freestyle skiing — Women’s halfpipe final
    • 2:55 p.m.: Figure skating — Gala
    • 3:15 p.m.: Bobsled — Two-woman final run
    • 3:50 p.m.: Back to the figure skating gala
    • 4:30 p.m.: Freestyle skiing — Mixed team aerials (delayed)
    • 5:15 p.m.: Bobsled — Four-man first and second runs (delayed)
    • 8 p.m.: Prime time highlights including bobsled, freestyle skiing, speed skating, and figure skating
    • 11:30 p.m.: Late night highlights including bobsled, speed skating, and freestyle skiing

    USA Network

    • 4 a.m.: Bobsled — Four-man, first run
    • 4:45 a.m.: Freestyle skiing — Mixed team aerials final
    • 6:10 a.m.: Cross-country skiing — Men’s 50km
    • 7:30 a.m.: Ski mountaineering — Mixed relay final
    • 8:15 a.m.: Biathlon — Women’s 12.5km mass start
    • 9 a.m.: Speedskating — Men’s and women’s mass start finals
    • 9:30 a.m.: Curling — United States vs. Canada women’s bronze medal game (joined in progress)
    • 2:40 p.m.: Ice hockey — Finland vs. Slovakia men’s bronze medal game

    CNBC

    • 1:05 p.m.: Curling — Switzerland vs. Norway bronze medal game

    How to watch the Olympics on TV and stream online

    NBC’s TV coverage will have live events from noon to 5 p.m. Philadelphia time on weekdays and starting in the mornings on the weekends. There’s a six-hour time difference between Italy and here. The traditional prime-time coverage will have highlights of the day and storytelling features.

    As far as the TV channels, the Olympics are airing on NBC, USA, CNBC, and NBCSN. Spanish coverage can be found on Telemundo and Universo.

    NBCSN is carrying the Gold Zone whip-around show that was so popular during the Summer Olympics in 2024, with hosts including Scott Hanson of NFL RedZone. It used to be just on Peacock, NBC’s online streaming service, but now is on TV, too.

    Every event is available to stream live on NBCOlympics.com and the NBC Sports app. You’ll have to log in with your pay-TV provider, whether cable, satellite, or streaming platforms including YouTube TV, FuboTV, and Sling TV.

    On Peacock, the events are on the platform’s premium subscription tier, which starts at $10.99 per month or $109.99 per year.

    Here is the full event schedule for the entire Olympics, and here are live scores and results.

  • USA Hockey cruises past Slovakia to set up dream gold-medal matchup vs. Canada

    USA Hockey cruises past Slovakia to set up dream gold-medal matchup vs. Canada

    MILAN — Zach Werenski and his U.S. teammates tried not to look ahead to a potential gold-medal game against Canada at the Olympics. After each went unbeaten in group play, there was no way the North American rivals could meet before the final, but there was work left to do.

    After routing Slovakia 6-2 in the semifinals on Friday night, the much-anticipated but never guaranteed U.S.-Canada showdown for gold is on.

    “It’s the matchup everyone wanted,” Werenski said after his three-assist performance against Slovakia. “Now that it’s finally here, we can kind of shift our focus to Canada.”

    The two top seeds in the tournament, who went in as the favorites, will meet Sunday. It comes a year after the U.S. and Canada played two memorable games against each other at the 4 Nations Face-Off.

    “It’s the final that we wanted and the team that we wanted to play,” winger Matt Boldy said. “It’s exciting for the fans and for hockey and everything like that.’’

    That NHL-run event ended a drought of nearly a decade without an international tournament featuring the best hockey players in the world. Three fights in the first 9 seconds of the first meeting put the 4 Nations in the spotlight, and the epic final won by Canada in overtime only built the anticipation for the Olympics.

    “Now that it’s all set in stone, everything happens for a reason,” said Brady Tkachuk, who along with brother Matthew and J.T. Miller, was involved in the 4 Nations fisticuffs. “We’ll be looking forward to this one. You guys have been talking about it for a while. Now you get to enjoy it.”

    After Canada did its part by rallying to beat Finland earlier in the day, the U.S. had no trouble against the Slovaks, who made an improbable run and were simply overmatched. They’ll face the Finns for bronze on Saturday night, looking for just the second hockey medal in the country’s history after getting the first with a third-place finish in Beijing in 2022.

    The U.S. is playing for gold after the semifinals were a much easier go than the quarterfinals against Sweden, when overtime was needed to survive a scare. Dylan Larkin, Tage Thompson, Jack Hughes, and Jack Eichel scored the four goals on 23 shots that chased Samuel Hlavaj out of Slovakia’s net past the midway point of the second period.

    Thompson, one of just a handful of newcomers who did not play at the 4 Nations, exited later in the second after blocking a shot and did not return. Coach Mike Sullivan said Thompson “was held out for precautionary reasons more than anything.”

    “We’ll see how he recovers, but I anticipate him being ready for game time,” Sullivan said.

    Hughes got his second goal of the game just after a power play expired, and Brady Tkachuk scored on a breakaway with just over nine minutes left to provide some more breathing room.

    The U.S. cruised in the semifinals with a 6-2 win over Slovakia. They’ll face Canada on Sunday for gold.

    “That was definitely one of our strongest games, for sure,” said Quinn Hughes, who, along with brother Jack, has been among the best U.S. players in Milan. “For the most part, we played really well. A little bit looser there in the third, but it’s a 5-0 game and you want to get out safe and feel good for the next game.”

    Goaltender Connor Hellebuyck did his job as his teammates outshot Slovakia by a substantial margin. Everything he has done at the Olympics has validated Sullivan’s decision to go with Hellebuyck as the U.S. starter over Jake Oettinger and Jeremy Swayman.

    The U.S. last reached the final in 2010, when it lost to Canada in overtime on Sidney Crosby’s famous golden goal. Crosby’s status is uncertain this time after getting injured in the quarterfinals Wednesday and not playing Friday against Finland.

    The last U.S. men’s hockey gold came in 1980 with the “Miracle on Ice” in Lake Placid.

    “It definitely motivates us,” Werenski said. “We’ve talked about. We’re well aware of it. I don’t think it’s pressure. It’s fun. It’s exciting.”

  • The U.S. men’s hockey team’s semifinal highlights Friday’s Olympic TV schedule

    The U.S. men’s hockey team’s semifinal highlights Friday’s Olympic TV schedule

    After the drama of the U.S. women’s ice hockey team’s come-from-behind win in the gold medal game Thursday, the spotlight now shifts to the men’s tournament for the rest of the Olympics.

    The quality of the United States’ 2-1 overtime win over Sweden in Wednesday’s quarterfinals, and the other three games that day, showed why it’s so great to have NHL players back on the big stage.

    On Friday, the tension will rise even more. The Americans will face a Slovakia squad that has just seven NHL players but topped a group with Sweden and Finland and routed Germany in the quarterfinals, 6-2.

    The San Jose Sharks’ Pavol Regenda scored twice, and Flyers fans might recognize a few names from rival NHL teams: New Jersey’s Šimon Nemec, Washington’s Martin Fehérváry, and Montreal’s Juraj Slafkovský.

    NBC will carry the U.S.-Slovakia game live at 3:10 p.m. Philadelphia time. USA Network will have the other semifinal, a star-studded Canada-Finland matchup, joining it in progress at 11:50 a.m. It starts at 10:40 a.m., with the entire game streamed on Peacock.

    Other big events Friday include a U.S.-Switzerland women’s curling semifinal, starting at 8 a.m. on Peacock. USA will join it in progress at 8:45. It’s the first time that a U.S. women’s curling team has made an Olympic semifinal in 24 years — and this group includes a Delaware County native, Broomall’s Taylor Anderson-Heide.

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    There’s also women’s speedskating’s 1,500 meters. The United States’ Brittany Bowe will hope to challenge Dutch star Femke Kok, who won gold in the 500 meters and silver in the 1,000. Bowe might also hope for a little stardust from her new fiancée, U.S. women’s hockey star Hilary Knight, after Knight popped the question in Milan earlier this week.

    Friday’s Olympic TV schedule

    As a general rule, our schedules include all live broadcasts on TV, but not tape-delayed broadcasts on cable channels. We’ll let you know what’s on NBC’s broadcasts, whether live or not.

    NBC

    • Noon: Bobsled — Two-woman first run
    • 12:15 p.m.: Freestyle skiing — Men’s aerials final (tape-delayed)
    • 1 p.m.: Speedskating — Women’s 1,500 meters (tape-delayed)
    • 1:30 p.m.: Freestyle skiing — Men’s halfpipe final
    • 3:10 p.m.: Ice hockey — United States vs. Slovakia, men’s semifinal
    • 8 p.m.: Prime time highlights including long track and short-track speedskating, bobsled, and freestyle skiing
    • 11:35 p.m.: Late night highlights including biathlon and freestyle skiing

    USA Network

    • 4 a.m.: Freestyle skiing — Women’s ski cross qualifying
    • 4:30 a.m.: Freestyle skiing — Men’s aerials qualifying
    • 6 a.m.: Freestyle skiing — Women’s ski cross final
    • 7:30 a.m.: Freestyle skiing — Men’s aerials final
    • 8:45 a.m.: Curling — United States vs. Switzerland women (joined in progress)
    • 10:45 a.m.: Speedskating — Women’s 1,500 meters
    • 11:50 a.m.: Ice hockey — Canada vs. Finland, men’s semifinal (joined in progress)
    • 2:15 p.m.: Short-track speedskating — Women’s 1500 meters and men’s relay finals

    How to watch the Olympics on TV and stream online

    NBC’s TV coverage will have live events from noon to 5 p.m. Philadelphia time on weekdays and starting in the mornings on the weekends. There’s a six-hour time difference between Italy and here. The traditional prime-time coverage will have highlights of the day and storytelling features.

    As far as the TV channels, the Olympics are airing on NBC, USA, CNBC, and NBCSN. Spanish coverage can be found on Telemundo and Universo.

    NBCSN is carrying the Gold Zone whip-around show that was so popular during the Summer Olympics in 2024, with hosts including Scott Hanson of NFL RedZone. It used to be just on Peacock, NBC’s online streaming service, but now is on TV, too.

    South Jersey’s Isabeau Levito finishes 12th, fellow American Alysa Liu claims gold medal at Olympics

    Every event is available to stream live on NBCOlympics.com and the NBC Sports app. You’ll have to log in with your pay-TV provider, whether cable, satellite, or streaming platforms including YouTube TV, FuboTV, and Sling TV.

    On Peacock, the events are on the platform’s premium subscription tier, which starts at $10.99 per month or $109.99 per year.

    Here is the full event schedule for the entire Olympics, and here are live scores and results.

  • U.S. beats Canada 2-1 in overtime to win Olympic gold in women’s hockey

    U.S. beats Canada 2-1 in overtime to win Olympic gold in women’s hockey

    MILAN (AP) — Megan Keller backhanded in a shot 4 minutes, 7 seconds into overtime and the United States won its third Olympic gold medal in women’s hockey, beating Canada 2-1 at the Milan Cortina Games on Thursday night to close another thrilling chapter of one of sports’ most heated rivalries.

    American captain Hilary Knight, in her fifth and likely final Olympics, forced overtime by tipping in Laila Edwards’ shot from the blue line with 2:04 remaining. The goal was the 15th of her Olympic career and her 33rd point to break the U.S. record in both categories.

    Captain Hilary Knight tied the gold-medal game for the U.S. with a late tip on a Laila Edwards point shot.

    With the sides playing three-on-three, Keller broke up the left wing and pushed past Claire Thompson. Driving to the net, the U.S. alternate captain got off a backhander that beat Ann-Renée Desbiens over her right pad.

    Aerin Frankel stopped 30 shots for the U.S.

    Kristin O’Neill scored a short-handed goal for Canada, and Desbiens finished with 31 saves.

    This was the seventh of the 12 Olympic meetings between the rivals to be decided by one goal and the third to go past regulation. Canada overcame a late 2-1 deficit to beat the U.S. 3-2 on Marie-Philip Poulin’s overtime goal at the 2014 Sochi Games. The U.S. won 3-2 in 2018 when Jocelyne Lamoureux scored in a shootout.

  • South Jersey’s Isabeau Levito finishes 12th, fellow American Alysa Liu claims gold medal at Olympics

    South Jersey’s Isabeau Levito finishes 12th, fellow American Alysa Liu claims gold medal at Olympics

    MILAN, Italy — In her first Olympics, in her mother’s hometown and very close to where her grandmother still lives, South Jersey figure skater Isabeau Levito earned a score of 131.96 in the free skate, or long program on Thursday.

    The 18-year-old wound up in eighth place in the short program after a score of 70.84 and 13th in the free skate. But scores, rather than placements are what count, so she wound up in 12th place with a 202.80.

    In the end, her teammate, friend, and fellow Blade Angel, Alysa Liu, won her second Olympic gold, after helping win the team event last week.

    Liu, 20, scored 150.20 to win the free skate. She was the only skater to have positive grades of execution on all elements. She was third in Tuesday’s short program.

    Liu also is the reigning world champion.

    Two Japanese skaters earned silver and bronze.

    Kaori Sakamoto, the favorite entering the Olympics, earned the silver after winning bronze at the 2022 Games. She was second in both the short and free programs.

    Ami Nakai, 17, who won the short program, was ninth in the free skate despite landing one of only two triple Axels on Thursday night. She had won the short program. She earned the bronze medal.

    Alysa Liu is the Olympic women’s figure skating champion.

    Levito entered the day in eighth place and was in sixth after that skate, with seven more skaters to go.

    She had an uncharacteristic fall on her opening triple flip, which was supposed to be in combination, but skated with her usual elegant spins and footwork to “Cinema Paradiso” by Ennio Morricone, Italian music for the occasion. Levito was born in Philadelphia, grew up in Mount Holly, and now lives closer to where she trains, in Mount Laurel.

    “I did my best” after the fall, Levito said in the mixed zone following her performance. “I just went on autopilot, and the rest went how it usually goes.”

    Despite the fall and placement, Levito said she felt better at this competition than at the World Figure Skating Championships, U.S. Figure Skating Championships, or other competitions.

    “Honestly, I felt like I had more energy,” she said. “And I don’t know if it’s because consciously I know I’m at the Olympics, or if it’s the crowd. The crowd is very, very energetic and supportive here.”

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    Levito skated in the second-to-last group (the free skate goes in reverse placement order from the short program). She wore a light blue, sparkly dress for the occasion.

    After Tuesday’s nearly clean short program, many on social media felt that Levito had been underscored. Some felt that after the free skate as well.

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    She is the reigning U.S. bronze medalist and was the U.S. champion in 2023 and the world silver medalist in 2024 in women’s singles.

    In the previous group, Levito’s fellow Blade Angel, Amber Glenn, skated a far better program than she had in the team event (where she was part of the gold-medal win) or Tuesday’s short program.

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    She was third in the free skate and fifth overall after finishing 13th in an error-filled short program.

    Glenn, the reigning and three-time U.S. champion, opened the free skate with her trademark triple Axel, landing it strongly, and knocked off element after element, only putting a hand down on her triple loop. She earned a season-best score of 147.52, for a total of 214.91.

    Glenn gave Levito a standing ovation from the leader’s chair near the kiss-and-cry area.

    Adeliia Petrosian, a Russian skater competing under a neutral flag, was seen as a potential medalist as well. She was the only woman to attempt a quadruple jump. She opened her free skate with the quad toe loop but fell on it. She wound up fifth in both the short and free skate and sixth overall.

  • Thursday at the Olympics: Women’s figure skaters and U.S. women’s hockey go for gold

    Thursday at the Olympics: Women’s figure skaters and U.S. women’s hockey go for gold

    At any Olympics, people talk about how much influence NBC has over the schedule. But not even the IOC’s biggest bankroller of all could stop a jam that fans will run into on Thursday.

    Women’s figure skating’s free skate is at the same time as women’s ice hockey gold medal game, 1 p.m. Philadelphia time.

    That means Alysa Liu, South Jersey’s Isabeau Levito, and Amber Glenn will be fighting to earn medals while Hilary Knight and Kendall Coyne Schofield lead the U.S. hockey squad against perennial archrival Canada.

    NBC can’t show both events live in full at the same time — well, it could split-screen them, but that would be awkward. And the “Gold Zone” show on NBCSN and Peacock already does that anyway.

    The U.S. women’s hockey team routed Canada, 5-0, in the first round of matchups at the Olympics.

    So women’s hockey fans will be left with the short straw, as their game is on USA Network while figure skating is on NBC.

    The women’s hockey gold medal game has been on a Thursday at the last four Olympics, including at Vancouver in 2010. But it hasn’t always been at the exact same time as figure skating. Perhaps NBC will be able to put in a word about that with the IOC, whether for 2030 in France or certainly 2034 in Salt Lake City.

    South Jersey figure skater Isabeau Levito is in eighth place after the women’s short program at the Winter Olympics

    Another big event Thursday is the men’s speedskating 1,500-meter race. American Jordan Stolz will go for his third gold medal in Milan, having swept the 500 and 1,000 so far. That’s at 10:45 a.m. on USA, with rebroadcasts on NBC at noon and in prime time. We’ll see if it runs long and NBC can catch the end live.

    Jordan Stolz of the U.S. celebrates after winning the men’s 500 meters speedskating race on Feb. 14 at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan, Italy.

    Thursday’s Olympic TV schedule

    NBC

    • Noon: Speedskating — Men’s 1500m
    • 1 p.m.: Figure skating — Women’s free skate
    • 8 p.m.: Prime time highlights including figure skating, speedskating, and freestyle skiing
    • 11:35 p.m.: Late night highlights including freestyle skiing and ski mountaineering

    USA Network

    • 3:50 a.m.: Ski mountaineering — Men’s and women’s sprint heats
    • 4:55 a.m.: Curling — Canada vs. Norway men
    • 6:55 a.m.: Ski mountaineering — Women’s sprint final and semifinals
    • 8:05 a.m.: Curling — United States vs. Switzerland women
    • 8:15 a.m.: Ski mountaineering — Men’s sprint final
    • 8:20 a.m.: Back to U.S.-Switzerland curling
    • 10:45 a.m.: Speedskating — men’s 1,500
    • 1:10 p.m.: Ice hockey — United States vs. Canada women’s gold medal game

    How to watch the Olympics on TV and stream online

    NBC’s TV coverage will have live events from noon to 5 p.m. Philadelphia time on weekdays and starting in the mornings on the weekends. There’s a six-hour time difference between Italy and here. The traditional prime-time coverage will have highlights of the day and storytelling features.

    As far as the TV channels, the Olympics are airing on NBC, USA, CNBC, and NBCSN. Spanish coverage can be found on Telemundo and Universo.

    NBCSN is carrying the Gold Zone whip-around show that was so popular during the Summer Olympics in 2024, with hosts including Scott Hanson of NFL RedZone. It used to be just on Peacock, NBC’s online streaming service, but now is on TV, too.

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    Every event is available to stream live on NBCOlympics.com and the NBC Sports app. You’ll have to log in with your pay-TV provider, whether cable, satellite, or streaming platforms including YouTube TV, FuboTV, and Sling TV.

    On Peacock, the events are on the platform’s premium subscription tier, which starts at $10.99 per month or $109.99 per year.

    Here is the full event schedule for the entire Olympics, and here are live scores and results.

  • Team USA defeats Sweden in OT to advance to Olympic men’s hockey semis

    Team USA defeats Sweden in OT to advance to Olympic men’s hockey semis

    MILAN — The U.S. and Canada are moving on to the semifinals at the Olympics. Each needed extra hockey to get through the quarterfinals.

    Quinn Hughes scored in overtime to put the U.S. past Sweden 2-1 after the Americans surrendered the tying goal to Mika Zibanejad with 91 seconds left in the third period. Dylan Larkin deflected Jack Hughes’ second-period shot in for the only U.S. goal in regulation.

    Earlier Wednesday, Nick Suzuki tied it for Canada late in regulation against Czechia, and Mitch Marner won it 4-3 in overtime to avoid what would have been a stunning early exit.

    “It was just all relief,” Canada’s Macklin Celebrini said after scoring three minutes in and then assisting on Marner’s goal. “A weight lifted off our shoulders, for sure. Just seeing that puck go in, knowing that we won the game. … It was a good feeling for all of us.”

    Finland also escaped an upset bid by rallying to beat Switzerland 3-2 in OT. Sweden is going home early from a tournament that did not go as planned for a team with a full roster of 25 NHL players, while upstart Slovakia is making another improbable run at the Olympic Games.

    After Canada did its part, albeit with a roller coaster of drama and emotion, the U.S. kept alive the possibility of the North American rivals meeting in the gold medal game Sunday by riding goaltender Connor Hellebuyck’s solid play past Sweden.

    The U.S. will face Slovakia in one semifinal on Friday night. Just before that, also unbeaten Canada plays Finland in the other.

    Canada survives Czechia’s upset bid

    After losing captain Sidney Crosby to injury, Canada was staring down what would have been a stunning quarterfinal exit until Suzuki tied it on a deflection goal with 3:27 left. Then Marner scored a little more than a minute into overtime to beat Czechia 4-3 and send the tournament favorite into the semifinals.

    “Everybody had complete faith in whoever was going over the boards,” coach Jon Cooper said. “It just felt it was like a matter of time. It was going to happen.”

    The nerves were palpable when Canada fell behind with 7:42 remaining on Ondřej Palát’s goal on an odd-man rush off a pass from Martin Nečas. Replays showed Czechia had six skaters on the ice, which Nathan MacKinnon said he and his teammates were aware of, even if on-ice officials didn’t notice.

    Mitch Marner was the hero for Canada in Wednesday’s quarterfinals.

    Suzuki just about did it all on the tying goal, sending the puck out to the point to Devon Toews and then redirecting the defenseman’s shot that was going well wide past Lukáš Dostál and into the net.

    “Toewser gave me a perfect opportunity to tip it,” Suzuki said. “Just trying to put something on net there.”

    Jordan Binnington denied Nečas on a breakaway with 70 seconds left to send the game past regulation. It was the biggest of Binnington’s 21 saves in an excellent performance from Canada’s starter.

    Then Marner summoned some more heroics playing for Canada, scoring his second OT goal in an international tournament in as many chances. Marner also scored in a similar fashion a year ago at the 4 Nations Face-Off.

    “It’s the ‘it’ factor, man: Mitch Marner’s got it,” Cooper said. “He doesn’t disappoint. Sometimes your hair falls out at times, but in the end, he never disappoints.”

    Finland rallies past Switzerland

    Much like Canada, Finland was trailing late in its game against Switzerland. The Finns also got a late goal to avoid an upset defeat.

    Miro Heiskanen tied it with 72 seconds left, Artturi Lehkonen scored in overtime, and Finland escaped with a 3-2 victory. Heiskanen’s shot banked in off Switzerland defenseman Jonas Siegenthaler’s stick and past goaltender Leonardo Genoni.

    “We are a relentless team,” Heiskanen said. “We never give up. We know we had a tough start. It was a slow start, but we kept playing, kept working, and it paid off.”

    Finland was actually down two goals after Switzerland’s Damien Riat and Nino Niederreiter scored 1:12 apart in the first period. It took until there was 6:06 left before Sebastian Aho got Finland on the board.

    Slovakia reaches semis

    Dalibor Dvorský turned in another brilliant performance with a goal and an assist, fellow NHL forward Pavol Regenda scored twice as part of his three-point game, and Slovakia dominated Germany 6-2 to reach the semifinals and guarantee playing for a medal in Milan.

    “Amazing,” said alternate captain Erik Černák, a two-time Stanley Cup champion with the Tampa Bay Lightning. “Before the tournament, if we would say we’re going to make semifinals, probably people would laugh at you. But we did it, and it’s not done yet.”

    Slovakia got an injury scare in the second period when 21-year-old emerging Montreal Canadiens star Juraj Slafkovský, the reigning Olympic MVP, went head-first into the boards and was slow to get up. A trainer applied an ice pack to the back of Slafkovsky’s neck, and he held it on himself when he got up to celebrate a goal scored while he was getting medical attention.

    “I’m OK,” Slafkovský said. ”I was a little shaken up, but after a couple minutes I felt OK again. I went out there, and head wasn’t spinning. I was seeing normal.”

  • Wednesday at the Olympics: U.S. vs. Sweden men’s hockey quarterfinal highlights NBC’s TV schedule

    Wednesday at the Olympics: U.S. vs. Sweden men’s hockey quarterfinal highlights NBC’s TV schedule

    The U.S. men’s hockey team’s quest for its first Olympic gold medal in nearly five decades continues Wednesday, highlighting Day 12 of NBC’s coverage of the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.

    Team USA will take on Sweden beginning at 3:10 p.m. live on NBC. The winner will move on to Friday’s semifinals.

    Maybe the sixth time’s the charm for the U.S. In the five previous Olympics games featuring NHL players, Team USA has won just two silver medals — 2002 in Salt Lake City, and 2010 in Vancouver.

    Against Sweden, the U.S. is 0-2 with NHL players, with losses in 1998 in Nagano, Japan and 2006 in Torino, Italy.

    Ice hockey has been played at the Olympics since 1920. In 25 games, the U.S. has won Olympic gold in men’s ice hockey just twice — 1960 Squaw Valley in California and 1980’s “Do you believe in miracles?” victory over the Soviet Union in Lake Placid, N.Y.

    Auston Matthews and Team USA went a perfect 3-0 during the group stage, defeating Denmark, Latvia, and Germany. Canada, featuring Flyers defenseman Travis Sanheim, was the only other country to post a perfect 3-0 record during the group state.

    Here’s Wednesday’s full men’s hockey quarterfinals schedule:

    • 6:10 a.m.: Slovakia vs. Germany (Peacock)
    • 10:40 a.m.: Canada vs. Czechia (USA Network)
    • 12:10 p.m.: Finland vs. Switzerland (Peacock)
    • 3:10 p.m.: U.S. vs. Sweden (NBC)

    Other events to watch Wednesday:

    • The U.S. men’s curling team will take on Great Britain in the final round-robin game for both countries beginning at 8:30 a.m. (USA Network). Ten countries are competing, and just the top four move on to the semifinals. Team USA enters Wednesday’s game in fourth place (full standings here).
    • American skiers Kaila Kuhn and Winter Vinecki will compete in women’s aerials live beginning at 5:30 a.m. (USA Network). They will be followed by U.S. snowboarder Red Gerard competing for gold in the men’s slopestyle final at 6:30 a.m. on USA Network.

    Wednesday’s Olympic TV schedule

    As a general rule, our schedules include all live broadcasts on TV, but not tape-delayed broadcasts on cable channels. We’ll let you know what’s on NBC’s broadcasts, whether they’re live or not.

    NBC
    • Noon: Biathlon — Women’s 4×6 kilometer relay (tape-delayed)
    • 12:45 p.m.: Cross-country skiing — Men’s and women’s team sprint finals (tape-delayed)
    • 1:30 p.m.: Freestyle skiing — Women’s aerials finals (tape-delayed)
    • 2:15 p.m.: Snowboarding — Men’s slopestyle final (tape-delayed)
    • 3:10 p.m.: Men’s hockey — U.S. vs. Sweden, quarterfinal
    • 8 p.m.: Prime-time highlights include snowboarding and a healthy dose of skiing events
    • 11:35 p.m.: Late night highlights include speedskating and biathlon
    USA Network
    • 5:30 a.m.: Freestyle skiing — Women’s aerials finals
    • 6:45 a.m.: Snowboarding — Men’s slopestyle final
    • 7:55 a.m.: Snowboarding — Women’s slalom final run
    • 8:30 a.m.: Men’s curling — U.S. vs. Great Britain
    • 8:45 a.m.: Biathlon — Women’s 4×6 kilometer relay
    • 10:40 a.m.: Men’s hockey — Canada vs. Czechia, quarterfinal
    • 2:15 p.m.: Short track — Women’s relay and men’s 500 meter finals

    How to watch the Olympics on TV and stream online

    NBC’s TV coverage will have live events from noon to 5 p.m. Philadelphia time on weekdays and starting in the mornings on the weekends. There’s a six-hour time difference between Italy and here. The traditional prime-time coverage will have highlights of the day and storytelling features.

    As far as the TV channels, the Olympics are airing on NBC, USA, CNBC, and NBCSN. Spanish coverage can be found on Telemundo and Universo.

    NBCSN is carrying the Gold Zone whip-around show that was so popular during the Summer Olympics in 2024, with hosts including Scott Hanson of NFL RedZone. It used to be just on Peacock, NBC’s online streaming service, but now is on TV, too.

    Every event is available to stream live on NBCOlympics.com and the NBC Sports app. You’ll have to log in with your pay-TV provider, whether cable, satellite, or streaming platforms including YouTube TV, FuboTV, and Sling TV.

    On Peacock, the events are on the platform’s premium subscription tier, which starts at $10.99 per month or $109.99 per year.

    Here is the full event schedule for the entire Olympics, and here are live scores and results.

  • South Jersey figure skater Isabeau Levito is in eighth place after the women’s short program at the Winter Olympics

    South Jersey figure skater Isabeau Levito is in eighth place after the women’s short program at the Winter Olympics

    MILAN, Italy — South Jersey figure skater Isabeau Levito, 18, landed in eighth place in Tuesday’s short program at the 2026 Winter Olympics.

    Competing in her mother’s hometown, just minutes from where her grandmother still lives, Levito, who lives and trains in Mount Laurel, started her short program a little tight but landed all of her elements.

    “I feel very good,” Levito told NBC after she skated. “I feel like I skated with the elegance I wanted to skate with. And I’m very glad my Olympic debut looked like that. I feel very confident and just very happy with myself right now.”

    She did not address the writing media.

    Levito is the reigning U.S. bronze medalist. She was the U.S. champion in 2023 and the world silver medalist in 2024 in women’s singles.

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    Levito’s program, to a compilation of sassy songs from Sophia Loren movies, opened with a triple flip-triple toe loop combination. Then she moved on to a double Axel and a flying camel, which got a Level 4, the highest. Her first three elements got positive grades of execution.

    Next came her triple loop, which was judged to be a quarter-rotation short. Five of the nine judges gave her a minus-1 grade of execution and one gave her a minus-2.

    South Jersey’s Isabeau Levito placed eighth in women’s short program.

    The second half of Levito’s program included a step sequence, which was called at a Level 3 rather than the Level 4 she usually has received.

    She then skated combination spin that received a Level 4 and grades of execution up to plus-5, the highest available. She wrapped up with a layback spin into a Biellmann that received a Level 4 and plus-3 and plus-4 grades of execution.

    South Jersey’s Isabeau Levito receives her scores following the short program accompanied by her coaches, Yulia Kuznetsova (left) and Slava Kuznetsov.

    Her score was a 70.84, nearly three points lower than her season’s best, which she skated at the Grand Prix of France.

    However, Levito’s program components (or artistic mark) was the fourth-highest of the night. Only Japan’s Kaori Sakamoto and Mone Chibe and American Alysa Liu placed higher.

    Many on social media thought Levito was underscored.

    On the technical side, Levito was not alone in the small mistakes. Most of the women had some rotation issues, although most skated fairly clean.

    Ami Nakai of Japan won the women’s short program figure skating at the Winter Olympics.

    Japan’s Ami Nakai, the youngest skater in the competition at age 17 (which now is the youngest age allowed in international figure skating at the senior level), won the short program. She opened with a clean triple Axel, and she received positive grades of execution on all of her elements, making her the only woman with a clean score sheet. Her step sequence and spins received Level 4 grades of execution. She earned a season-best 78.71.

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    Sakamoto has been the sentimental favorite this year after placing third in the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing (and notably being the only happy one on the medal stand, after much drama with the Russian women over doping allegations and placements). Sakamoto also has won the World Championships three times after being displaced last year by Liu. She helped lead Japan to a silver medal in the Olympic team event for the second time in a row last week.

    Sakamoto has said this will be her last year competing, and her short program is to “Time To Say Goodbye,” by Sarah Brightman and Andrea Bocelli.

    Kaori Sakamoto of Japan competes is in second after women’s short program figure skating at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Milan, Italy.

    She received an exclamation mark on her opening triple Lutz, meaning it was not clear whether she took off on the required outside edge or had shifted to an inside edge. Her triple flip-triple toe loop combination also was called a quarter of a rotation short.

    She is less than a point behind Nakai, earning 77.23 for her short program.

    The highest-placing American woman of the night was Liu, who wound up in third place. She repeated last year’s winning short program, to “Promise,” by Laufey. After she skated, she said she was unconcerned with placements but was more excited to have people see her work and to have her siblings and friends in the audience, most of whom had never seen her compete.

    Liu received all positive grades of execution, mostly plus-3 to plus-5, except for her triple Lutz-triple loop combination (a particularly difficult one, therefore worth more points), which was called a quarter short. Her score was 76.59.

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    Amber Glenn, the three-time U.S. champion, started her program (to Madonna’s “Like a Prayer”) strong with a triple Axel that received up to plus-3 grades of execution. (She and Nakai were the only women of the night to attempt the jump.)

    Her triple flip-triple toe loop combination was called a quarter short. But she made a big mistake in the middle of the program when she doubled her intended triple loop. A solo triple jump is a required element in the short program, so the double loop received no points. She finished strong with a Level 4 step sequence and two Level 4 spins, but Liu, watching on a monitor in the mixed zone, wondered if Glenn had changed the program on the fly after a mistake.

    Glenn’s score was 67.39, well below her season’s best of 75.72, and she was in 13th after the short program.

    The short program also included the return of two Russian women, skating under a neutral flag. Viktoriia Safonova was the first to skate and was not among the top 24 (of 29) skaters who qualified for Thursday’s free skate.

    The other Russian woman, Adeliia Petrosian, skated second and has been considered a medal contender. She scored a strong 72.89, which would not be topped until the 18th skater performed. That was by Nakai, the eventual winner.

    Levito, Liu, and Glenn call themselves the Blade Angels, modeled somewhat on women’s Olympic gymnastics teams, which give themselves names, and somewhat on Charlie’s Angels.

    Liu and Glenn shared in last week’s Olympic gold medal in the team event. Only up to two skaters from each team could be chosen for the women’s section. Levito, who has said she has flown somewhat under the radar since suffering an injury last year and missing part of the season (but came back to place fourth at the world championships in Boston), was not selected to compete. Only those who skate share in the medal.