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2008 Olympics
TV Schedule
Reprinted from RBR Newsletter No. 354
Olympic Cycling Event
Schedule
Olympic cycling begins on Saturday, Aug. 9, the day
after the Opening Ceremony in Beijing. It starts with a
bang -- first up is the premier event, the men's road
race.
For the full list of cycling events with start/finish
times, including the numerous rounds on the track, see
the Wikipedia page "Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics"
at
http://tinyurl.com/5a3y7w
Olympic Cycling TV Schedule (North America)
The full NBC Universal 2008 Olympics TV broadcast
schedule (compiled by the Associated Press) can be found
at
http://tinyurl.com/5qglmw. It includes all
Olympic events that will be shown on NBC and its
partners: CNBC, MSNBC, Telemundo (in Spanish), USA
Network, Oxygen, Universal HD and sport-specific
channels for basketball and soccer.
The printout takes 17 pages. Broadcasting will be
virtually around-the-clock from the Opening Ceremony on
Friday, Aug. 8, to the Closing Ceremony on Sunday, Aug.
24.
Most cycling events will be shown on tape delay. (BMX,
new to the Olympics, appears to get the only live
coverage.) So the exact times that bike racing will be
on TV aren't certain. It appears that even the networks
can't say for sure.
But we can tell you the time blocks when cycling
coverage is scheduled. These are all U.S. Eastern
Daylight Time and subject to change:
Aug. 9 -- Men's Road Race. NBC and NBC HD, 10
a.m. to 6 p.m.
Aug. 10 -- Women's Road Race, NBC and NBC HD, 10
a.m. to 6 p.m.
Aug. 13 -- Women's Individual Time Trial, NBC and
NBC HD, 8 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Aug. 13 -- Men's Individual Time Trial, MSNBC, 5
a.m. to 5 p.m.
Aug. 15 -- Track Cycling gold medal finals (men's
team sprint), USA and USA HD, 2 a.m. to noon
Aug. 16 -- Track Cycling gold medal finals, NBC
and NBC HD, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Aug. 16 -- Track Cycling gold medal finals, USA
and USA HD, 2 a.m. to 2 p.m.
This day includes the men's 40-km points race and finals
in the men's 4,000-meter individual pursuit and the
men's keirin.
Aug. 17 -- Track Cycling gold medal finals, NBC
and NBC HD, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Aug. 17 -- Track Cycling gold medal finals, USA
and USA HD, 2 a.m. to 2 p.m.
This day includes the women's 3,000-meter individual
pursuit finals.
Aug. 18 -- Track Cycling gold medal finals,
MSNBC, 5 a.m. to 5 p.m.
This day includes the men's 4,000-meter team pursuit
finals.
Aug. 19 -- Men's BMX (live), NBC and NBC HD,
12:35 a.m. to 2 a.m.
Aug. 19 -- Track Cycling gold medal finals, USA
and USA HD, 2 a.m. to noon
This day includes the men's 50-km Madison and men's and
women's sprint finals.
Aug. 20 -- BMX gold medal finals (live), NBC and
NBC HD, 8 p.m. to midnight
Aug. 22 -- Women's Mountain Bike, MSNBC, 5 a.m.
to 5 p.m.
Aug. 23 -- Men's Mountain Bike, NBC and NBC HD,
12:30 a.m. to 5 a.m.
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NBC's cycling page is
at
http://www.nbcolympics.com/cycling/index.html.
You'll find video clips and perhaps be able to see
highlights of races.
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American Olympic Cyclists
Men's Road
George Hincapie, 35 (Greenville, SC.) Road Race
Levi Leipheimer, 34 (Santa Rosa, CA) Road Race, Time
Trial
Jason McCartney, 34 (Coralville, IA) Road Race
Christian Vande Velde, 32 (Boulder, CO) Road Race
David Zabriskie, 29 (Salt Lake City, UT) Road Race, Time
Trial
Women's Road
Kristin Armstrong, 34 (Boise, ID) Road Race, Time Trial
Amber Neben, 34 (Irvine, CA) Road Race
Christine Thorburn, 38 (Sunnyvale, CA) Road Race, Time
Trial
Men's Track
Michael Blatchford, 22 (Cypress, CA) Team Sprint, Match
Sprint
Adam Duvendeck, 26 (Santa Barbara, CA) Team Sprint
Michael Friedman, 25 (Pittsburgh, PA) Madison
Bobby Lea, 24 (Mertztown, PA) Points Race, Madison
Giddeon Massie, 26 (Zionhill, PA) Team Sprint
Taylor Phinney, 18 (Boulder, CO) Individual Pursuit
(The U.S. also has one start position in the Keirin.
Rider to be announced.)
Women's Track
Sarah Hammer, 24 (Temecula, CA) Individual Pursuit,
Points Race
Jennie Reed, 30 (Kirkland, WA) Match Sprint
Men's Mountain Bike
Adam Craig, 26 (Bend, OR)
Todd Wells, 32 (Durango, CO)
Women's Mountain Bike
Georgia Gould, 28 (Ketchum, ID)
Mary McConneloug, 37 (Chilmark, MA)
Men's Bicycle Motocross (BMX)
Kyle Bennett, 28 (Conroe, TX)
Mike Day, 23 (Santa Clarita, CA)
Donny Robinson, 25 (Napa, CA)
Women's Bicycle Motocross (BMX)
Jill Kintner, 26 (Seattle, WA)
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