The 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing begin this week with the opening ceremony on Friday, the official start of the Games. Coverage of the opening ceremony begins at 6:30 a.m. Eastern on NBC and also will be broadcast live on NBC’s streaming service, Peacock. NBC will re-air the ceremony on tape delay in prime time at 8 p.m. Friday.
The opening ceremony is scheduled for 8 p.m. in China — that will be 7 a.m. Eastern time and 4 a.m. Pacific — and take place at the National Stadium, known as the Bird’s Nest. That’s the same stadium that hosted the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Games, the last time China hosted the Olympics.
Although the Bird’s Nest was built specifically to hold events during the 2008 Games, no competitions will take place there this year. The stadium also will be the site for the Games’ closing ceremony on Feb. 20.
Day-by-day TV viewing guide to the Beijing Winter Games
*All time is listed as ET. Times are subject to change.
Wednesday, February 2 (Day -2):
- The Beijing Winter Olympics kick off with early rounds of mixed doubles curling. Watch as pairs from the U.S. take on Australia and Italy
- When: 6:00 p.m. & 8:05 p.m. on USA Network
Thursday, February 3 (Day -1):
- 2018 Olympic team bronze medalist Nathan Chen (Salt Lake City, Utah) is expected to make his Beijing debut as the figure skating team event commences.
- When: 8 p.m. on NBC and Peacock
Friday, February 4 (Day 0):
- The Opening Ceremony begins at 6:30 a.m. ET on NBC and Peacock. There will be a full day of unprecedented coverage, click here for the full schedule of events.
- When: 6:30 a.m on NBC and Peacock
Saturday, February 5 (Day 1):
- Canada’s Mikael Kingsbury–arguably the most dominant athlete in any Winter Olympic sport–competes in the Men’s Moguls Final. Kingsbury is the defending Olympic gold medalist, a 3-time world champion, and 9-time overall World Cup champion.
- When: 6:30 a.m. on NBC and USA Network
- Two-time Olympic slopestyle gold medalist Jamie Anderson (South Lake Tahoe, California) could become the first snowboarder to win 3 straight Olympic gold medals.
- When: 8:30 p.m. on NBC and USA Network
Sunday, February 6 (Day 2):
- Three-time Olympic medalist Mikaela Shiffrin (Edwards, Colorado) will have her first medal chance in Beijing competing in Women’s Giant Slalom. Shiffrin is the defending Olympic gold medalist in this event and may be competing in as many as five events in Beijing.
- When: 9:15 p.m. ET on USA Network
- Red Gerard (Silverthorne, Colorado) looks to go back-to-back in snowboard slopestyle. Gerard became snowboarding’s youngest Olympic gold medalist in this event at the 2018 PyeongChang Games.
- When: 11:00 p.m. on NBC
Monday, February 7 (Day 3):
- After a disastrous short program erased his medal chances in 2018, three-time reigning world champion Nathan Chen (Salt Lake City, Utah) will begin his road to redemption.
- When: 8:15 p.m. on NBC and Peacock
- China’s Eileen Gu the reigning world champion in halfpipe and slopestyle who was born in San Francisco to an American father and Chinese mother, will have her first medal opportunity in Beijing in the Women’s Big Air Final.
- When: 9:00 p.m. on NBC and Peacock
- The U.S. women’s hockey team takes on Canada in the preliminary round for a new chapter in one of the biggest rivalries in winter sports (of six gold medals ever awarded in women’s hockey, five have been won by either the U.S. or Canada).
- When: 12:15 a.m. on USA Network
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Tuesday, February 8 (Day 4):
- Mikaela Shiffrin (Edwards, Colorado) will race in one of her signature events: Women’s Slalom. This could be Shiffrin’s 2nd of as many as 5 opportunities to win an individual medal in Beijing.
- When: 9:15 p.m. on NBC and Peacock
- Chloe Kim (Torrance, California) and three-time Olympic gold medalist Shaun White (Carlsbad, California) compete in snowboard halfpipe qualifying. Kim is the defending Olympic gold medalist and two-time reigning world champion in the women’s event.
- When: 8:30 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. on NBC and Peacock
Wednesday, February 9 (Day 5):
- Chloe Kim (Torrance, California) looks for the repeat gold in the women’s halfpipe final.
- Nathan Chen (Salt Lake City, Utah), competing in the Men’s Free Skate, will look for redemption in Beijing after finishing 5th in PyeongChang.
- When: 8:00 p.m. on NBC and Peacock
Thursday, February 10 (Day 6)
- 35-year-old Shaun White (Carlsbad, California) looks to compete in the men’s halfpipe final, attempting to become the first athlete in any sport at the Olympic Winter Games to win 4 gold medals in the same individual event (although two other athletes competing in Beijing also have the chance to hit that milestone).
- When: 8:30 p.m. on NBC and Peacock
- Mikaela Shiffrin (Edwards, Colorado) will have another possible medal opportunity in the Women’s Super-G.
- When: 10:00 p.m. on NBC and Peacock
Friday, February 11 (Day 7)
- Mixed Team Snowboard Cross–one of four new mixed-gender events on the 2022 program–will make its highly anticipated Olympic debut.
- When: 9:15 p.m on NBC and Peacock
- Competing in the Women’s 1000m, Kristen Santos (Fairfield, Connecticut) will attempt to win the first medal for U.S. women in short track since 2010.
- When: 10:15 p.m. on NBC and Peacock
Saturday, February 12 (Day 8)
- At 37-years-old, Katie Uhlaender (Breckenridge, Colorado) will compete in Women’s Skeleton.
Beijing marks the 37-year-olds fifth Olympic Games. Uhlaender narrowly missed a medal at the 2014 Sochi Games finishing four one-hundredths of a second behind the eventual bronze medalist. - Monobob will make its Olympic debut with Kaillie Humphries (Calgary, Alberta) as the U.S.’s top contender. Humphries, a two-time Olympic champion in two-woman, will be competing in her first Games as a U.S. citizen.
- When: 8:00 p.m. on NBC and Peacock
Sunday, February 13 (Day 9)
- Speed skater Erin Jackson (Ocala, Florida) will compete in the Women’s 500m. In 2018, Jackson became the first Black woman to make the U.S. Olympic long track speed skating team after just four months of serious on-ice training.
- When: 8:55 a.m. on NBC and Peacock
- After Super Bowl LVI (6:30 p.m. on NBC), Kaillie Humphries (Calgary, Alberta) will attempt to make history by winning the first-ever gold medal in women’s monobob.
- In Ice Dance, the U.S. has two teams that can contend for a medal–Madison Hubbell (Lansing, Michigan)/Zach Donohue (Hartford, Connecticut) and Madison Chock (Redondo Beach, California) /Evan Bates (Ann Arbor, Michigan).
- When: 10:45 p.m. on NBC and Peacock
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Monday, February 14 (Day 10)
- Jamie Anderson (South Lake Tahoe, California) and Mikaela Shiffrin (Edwards, Colorado) are medal contenders in Women’s Big Air and Women’s Downhill, and a trio of U.S. men–Colby Stevenson (Portsmouth, New Hampshire), Nick Goepper (Fort Wayne, Indiana), and Alex Hall (Fairbanks, Alaska) all have shots at a medal in Men’s Slopestyle.
- When: 8:00 p.m. on NBC and Peacock
Tuesday, February 15 (Day 11)
- Women’s Figure Skating begins with the short program featuring a group of teenagers from Russia–including 15-year-old Kamila Valiyeva–who could sweep the podium after transforming what’s possible in the world of figure skating.
- When: 8:00 p.m. on NBC and Peacock
Wednesday, February 16 (Day 12)
- Mikaela Shiffrin (Edwards, Colorado) will have her final medal opportunity in Women’s Combined.
- When: 9:30 p.m. on NBC
- One of the fiercest rivalries in sports could continue as the U.S. and Canada are predicted to face off again for the gold medal. The two nations have met in the gold medal game in five of the six Olympic tournaments where Women’s hockey has been contested.
- When: 11:05 p.m. on NBC and Peacock
Thursday, February 17 (Day 13)
- Speed skater Brittany Bowe (Ocala, Florida) looks to earn her first individual Olympic medal in the women’s 1000m.
- Two-time U.S. champion Alysa Liu (2019, 2020) from Richmond, California competes in the Women’s Free Skate. In 2019, Liu became the first female skater to land both a triple Axel and a quad Lutz in the same program.
- When: 8:00 p.m. on NBC and Peacock
Friday, February 18 (Day 14)
- The Figure Skating pairs event commences as China looks to continue its tradition of dominance at home with Sui Wenjing and Han Cong. China has more pairs medals than another nation in this century.
- When: 8:00 p.m. on NBC and Peacock
Saturday, February 19 (Day 15)
The final day of primetime competition takes place as U.S. bobsledder Kaillie Humphries (Calgary, Alberta) competes for her fourth medal in the two-woman event. The men’s hockey final will also take place as well as the Figure Skating Pairs’ Free Skate–the most anticipated event for the host county.
- When: 8:00 p.m. on NBC and Peacock
Sunday, February 20 (Day 16)
The Closing Ceremony takes place officially brings the Games to an end.
- When: 8:00 p.m. on NBC and Peacock
