PAIRS SKATE FOR GOLD & WOMEN'S HALFPIPE, DAY 4 OF THE TORINO GAMES ON NBC

PAIRS SKATE FOR GOLD & BLEILER, TETER & CLARK BATTLE FOR HALFPIPE OLYMPIC GLORY ON MONDAY, DAY 4 OF THE TORINO GAMES

"They Don't Have Any Weaknesses...the Gold Medal is Theirs to Lose."-NBC's David Pelletier on Russia's Totmiyanina & Marinin

NBC's Monday Primetime Olympic Coverage Begins At 8 P.M. ET/PT

TORINO, Italy?Feb.12, 2006?The first medals in the Torino figure skating competition are determined and Team USA's Bleiler, Teter and Clark battle for gold in the halfpipe competition highlighting NBC's coverage continuing Monday on NBC, USA Network, MSNBC, CNBC, NBC HD and Universal HD. NBC's Monday primetime coverage begins at 8 p.m. ET/PT with Russia's Tatyana Totmiyanina and Maxim Marinin, who live and train in Chicago, skating for gold.

NBC's David Pelletier said, "They cover the ice like no other team does?they are unmatched. They don't have any weaknesses ? the gold medal is theirs to lose." The two-time reigning world champions are back after a scary crash at a competition in Pittsburgh in October 2004?Totmiyanina fell to the unforgiving ice headfirst. The crash and her remarkably quick recovery received widespread media attention last fall and an outpouring of fan support.

Also watch for the top U.S. team, Rena Inoue and John Baldwin (Santa Monica, Calif.,) currently in sixth place, who made Olympic history during the short program after completing a throw triple axel. "To witness that was the most exciting thing I think I have ever seen in figure skating, it took such guts to go out there and complete that throw triple axel," said NBC's Jamie Sal?.

The USA women's halfpipe team is as deep and talented as its male counterpart, and also could win multiple medals. Watch for high-flyers Gretchen Bleiler (Snowmass, Colo.) and Hannah Teter (Belmont, Vt.) along with defending Olympic gold medalist Kelly Clark (Mount Snow, Vt.) NBC's Pat Parnell said, "The best story for the American women is defending Olympic champ Kelly Clark, who, with all the hype on Gretchen and Hannah, is riding below the radar screens of the media."

Additional speed skating action includes the gold medal final in the men's 500m as Casey FitzRandolph of Wisconsin looks to defend his Salt Lake title against American teammates Joey Cheek and Kip Carpenter and an international field of top Canadian and Japanese contenders.

Highlights for Monday, Feb. 13, 2006, include:

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13

NBC

4:00 p.m.?5:00 p.m. Luge?Women's Singles Competition

8:00 p.m.?11:30 p.m. Figure Skating?Pairs Free Skate Gold Medal Final Snowboarding?Women's Halfpipe Gold Medal Final Speed Skating?Men's 500m Gold Medal Final

12:05 a.m.?1:30 a.m. The Olympic Tonight Show with Jay Leno Figure Skating?Pairs Free Skate Analysis Medals Plaza?Awards Ceremonies

1:30 a.m.?5:00 a.m. Primetime Replay

USA

3:00 a.m.?11:00 a.m. Curling?Men: USA vs. Norway (LIVE) Biathlon?Women's 15km Gold Medal Final (LIVE) Curling?Women: USA vs. Norway (LIVE)

6:00 p.m.?7:00 p.m. Olympic Ice

MSNBC

9:00 a.m.?2:00 p.m. Hockey?Women: Sweden vs. Italy (LIVE) Women: Finland vs. Switzerland (LIVE)

CNBC

5:00 p.m.?8:00 p.m. Curling?Men: USA vs. Finland

UNIVERSAL HD

9:00 a.m.?2:00 p.m. Hockey?Women: Sweden vs. Italy (LIVE) Women: Finland vs. Switzerland (LIVE)

6:00 p.m.?7:00 p.m. Olympic Ice

NBC HIGHLIGHTS (Primetime):

The gold medal favorites in the 2006 Olympic pairs competition are Russia's Tatyana Totmiyanina and Maxim Marinin, who live and train in Chicago. The two-time reigning world champions are back after a scary crash at a competition in Pittsburgh in October 2004?Totmiyanina fell to the unforgiving ice headfirst. The crash and her remarkably quick recovery received widespread media attention last fall and an outpouring of fan support. Also watch for the top U.S. team, Rena Inoue and John Baldwin (Santa Monica, Calif.) who became the first pair in history to land the throw triple Axel in Olympic competition during the short program.

The USA women's halfpipe team is as deep and talented as its male counterpart, and also could win multiple medals. Watch for high-flyers Gretchen Bleiler (Snowmass, Colo.) and Hannah Teter (Belmont, Vt.) along with defending Olympic gold medalist Kelly Clark (Mount Snow, Vt.)

The Men's 500m in speed skating is the fastest race on skates?two all out sprints burning up the Italian ice to determine Olympic gold. Wisconsin native Casey FitzRandolph struck gold at the Salt Lake Olympics, and in Torino he'll be tested by standouts from Canada and Japan.

NBC HIGHLIGHTS (Daytime):

The women's luge competition begins today with the first two runs. Germany's all-world lugers swept the medals in this event at the Salt Lake Games and are expected to dominate again, though young and improving American Courtney Zablocki (Highlands Ranch, Colo.) is determined to upend the German juggernaut.

NBC HIGHLIGHTS (Latenight):

Tonight an exclusive review of the pairs competition through the eyes of NBC analysts Jamie Sal? and David Pelletier, who were at the center of the judging controversy four years in Salt Lake that eventually led to double gold medals for them and a new scoring system for the sport.

USA HIGHLIGHTS:

Curling, the "cult hit" of the 2002 Games, returns to the Olympic ice with LIVE coverage of the U.S. men's and women's teams, each in action against Norway. The USA women, led by sisters Cassie and Jamie Johnson of curling hotbed Bemidji, Minnesota, took silver at the most recent World Championship.

MSNBC HIGHLIGHTS:

LIVE coverage of women's hockey continues.

Highlights for Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2006, include:

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14

NBC

4:00 p.m.?5:00 p.m. Luge?Women's Singles Gold Medal Final

8:00 p.m.?11:30 p.m. Figure Skating?Men's Short Program Alpine Skiing?Men's Combined (Downhill & Slalom) Gold Medal Final Speed Skating?Women's 500m Gold Medal Final

12:05 a.m.?1:30 a.m. The Olympic Tonight Show with Jay Leno Figure Skating?Men's Short Program Analysis Cross Country?Men's Team Sprint Gold Medal Final Medals Plaza?Awards Ceremonies

1:30 a.m.?5:00 a.m. Primetime Replay

USA

3:00 a.m.?11:00 a.m. Curling?Women: USA vs. Canada (LIVE) Cross Country?Women's Team Sprint Gold Medal Final Biathlon?Men's 10km Sprint Gold Medal Final (LIVE) Curling?Men: USA vs. New Zealand (LIVE) Alpine Skiing?Women's Downhill Final Timed Training

2:30 p.m.?5:00 p.m. Hockey?Women: USA vs. Finland (LIVE)

6:00 p.m.?7:00 p.m. Olympic Ice

MSNBC

7:00 a.m.?2:30 p.m. Hockey?Women: Italy vs. Russia (LIVE) Women: Canada vs. Sweden (LIVE) Women: Switzerland vs. Germany (LIVE)

CNBC

5:00 p.m.?8:00 p.m. Curling?Women: USA vs. Japan

UNIVERSAL HD

7:00 a.m.?2:30 p.m. Hockey?Women: Italy vs. Russia (LIVE) Women: Canada vs. Sweden (LIVE) Women: Switzerland vs. Germany (LIVE)

2:30 p.m.?5:00 p.m. Hockey?Women: USA vs. Finland (LIVE)

6:00 p.m.?7:00 p.m. Olympic Ice

NBC HIGHLIGHTS (Primetime):

Figure skating resumes with the short program of the men's competition, featuring Russia's flashy Yevgeny Plushenko, silver medalist in Salt Lake City and the gold medal favorite at these Games. The Americans figure to be in the medal chase, as they team will include three-time National Champion Johnny Weir (Newark, Del.), 2005 World bronze medalist Evan Lysacek (Naperville, Ill.), and Cornell law-student-to-be Matt Savoie (Peoria, Ill.), who qualified for his first Olympic team at age 25.

The men's combined (downhill and slalom) represents another gold medal opportunity for Bode Miller, the 2003 world champion in this event. The bold New England superstar who dramatically took silver four years ago after nearly falling in men's combined, which combines the daring downhill with two runs of slalom, looks to turn his Salt Lake silver into Torino gold.

Tonight in speed skating, the fastest female skaters in the world sprint for Olympic gold in the 500m. Watch for China's Wang Manli, who was dismissed as talentless by her first childhood coach but persevered and grew into a world champion skater.

NBC HIGHLIGHTS (Daytime):

In the women's luge gold medal final, Germany's all-world lugers are expected to dominate and sweep the medals in this event as they did in Salt Lake. However, young and improving American Courtney Zablocki (Highlands Ranch, Colo.) is determined to upend the German juggernaut.

NBC HIGHLIGHTS (Latenight):

The world's fastest cross-country skiers sprint for team gold on the scenic course at Pragelato.

USA HIGHLIGHTS:

Angela Ruggiero (Harper Woods, Mich.), Krissy Wendell (Brooklyn Park, Minn.) and the world champion U.S. women's hockey team return to the ice LIVE with a tough match-up against a medal-contending team from Finland.

The USA's curling teams continue to sweep toward gold, with LIVE coverage of the women vs. 1998 Olympic champion Canada and the men vs. New Zealand.

In cross country's women's sprint gold medal final, the world's fastest cross-country skiers sprint for team gold on the scenic course at Pragelato.

Norwegian standout Ole Einar Bjoerndalen, who won four Olympic gold medals in 2002, looks to continue his winning ways LIVE on USA Network in the men's biathlon 10km sprint gold medal final.

Listings subject to change, please check NBCOlympics.com for updates.

PAIRS SKATE FOR GOLD & WOMEN'S HALFPIPE, DAY 4 OF THE TORINO GAMES ON NBC

PAIRS SKATE FOR GOLD & BLEILER, TETER & CLARK BATTLE FOR HALFPIPE OLYMPIC GLORY ON MONDAY, DAY 4 OF THE TORINO GAMES

"They Don't Have Any Weaknesses...the Gold Medal is Theirs to Lose."-NBC's David Pelletier on Russia's Totmiyanina & Marinin

NBC's Monday Primetime Olympic Coverage Begins At 8 P.M. ET/PT

TORINO, Italy?Feb.12, 2006?The first medals in the Torino figure skating competition are determined and Team USA's Bleiler, Teter and Clark battle for gold in the halfpipe competition highlighting NBC's coverage continuing Monday on NBC, USA Network, MSNBC, CNBC, NBC HD and Universal HD. NBC's Monday primetime coverage begins at 8 p.m. ET/PT with Russia's Tatyana Totmiyanina and Maxim Marinin, who live and train in Chicago, skating for gold.

NBC's David Pelletier said, "They cover the ice like no other team does?they are unmatched. They don't have any weaknesses ? the gold medal is theirs to lose." The two-time reigning world champions are back after a scary crash at a competition in Pittsburgh in October 2004?Totmiyanina fell to the unforgiving ice headfirst. The crash and her remarkably quick recovery received widespread media attention last fall and an outpouring of fan support.

Also watch for the top U.S. team, Rena Inoue and John Baldwin (Santa Monica, Calif.,) currently in sixth place, who made Olympic history during the short program after completing a throw triple axel. "To witness that was the most exciting thing I think I have ever seen in figure skating, it took such guts to go out there and complete that throw triple axel," said NBC's Jamie Sal?.

The USA women's halfpipe team is as deep and talented as its male counterpart, and also could win multiple medals. Watch for high-flyers Gretchen Bleiler (Snowmass, Colo.) and Hannah Teter (Belmont, Vt.) along with defending Olympic gold medalist Kelly Clark (Mount Snow, Vt.) NBC's Pat Parnell said, "The best story for the American women is defending Olympic champ Kelly Clark, who, with all the hype on Gretchen and Hannah, is riding below the radar screens of the media."

Additional speed skating action includes the gold medal final in the men's 500m as Casey FitzRandolph of Wisconsin looks to defend his Salt Lake title against American teammates Joey Cheek and Kip Carpenter and an international field of top Canadian and Japanese contenders.

Highlights for Monday, Feb. 13, 2006, include:

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13

NBC

4:00 p.m.?5:00 p.m. Luge?Women's Singles Competition

8:00 p.m.?11:30 p.m. Figure Skating?Pairs Free Skate Gold Medal Final Snowboarding?Women's Halfpipe Gold Medal Final Speed Skating?Men's 500m Gold Medal Final

12:05 a.m.?1:30 a.m. The Olympic Tonight Show with Jay Leno Figure Skating?Pairs Free Skate Analysis Medals Plaza?Awards Ceremonies

1:30 a.m.?5:00 a.m. Primetime Replay

USA

3:00 a.m.?11:00 a.m. Curling?Men: USA vs. Norway (LIVE) Biathlon?Women's 15km Gold Medal Final (LIVE) Curling?Women: USA vs. Norway (LIVE)

6:00 p.m.?7:00 p.m. Olympic Ice

MSNBC

9:00 a.m.?2:00 p.m. Hockey?Women: Sweden vs. Italy (LIVE) Women: Finland vs. Switzerland (LIVE)

CNBC

5:00 p.m.?8:00 p.m. Curling?Men: USA vs. Finland

UNIVERSAL HD

9:00 a.m.?2:00 p.m. Hockey?Women: Sweden vs. Italy (LIVE) Women: Finland vs. Switzerland (LIVE)

6:00 p.m.?7:00 p.m. Olympic Ice

NBC HIGHLIGHTS (Primetime):

The gold medal favorites in the 2006 Olympic pairs competition are Russia's Tatyana Totmiyanina and Maxim Marinin, who live and train in Chicago. The two-time reigning world champions are back after a scary crash at a competition in Pittsburgh in October 2004?Totmiyanina fell to the unforgiving ice headfirst. The crash and her remarkably quick recovery received widespread media attention last fall and an outpouring of fan support. Also watch for the top U.S. team, Rena Inoue and John Baldwin (Santa Monica, Calif.) who became the first pair in history to land the throw triple Axel in Olympic competition during the short program.

The USA women's halfpipe team is as deep and talented as its male counterpart, and also could win multiple medals. Watch for high-flyers Gretchen Bleiler (Snowmass, Colo.) and Hannah Teter (Belmont, Vt.) along with defending Olympic gold medalist Kelly Clark (Mount Snow, Vt.)

The Men's 500m in speed skating is the fastest race on skates?two all out sprints burning up the Italian ice to determine Olympic gold. Wisconsin native Casey FitzRandolph struck gold at the Salt Lake Olympics, and in Torino he'll be tested by standouts from Canada and Japan.

NBC HIGHLIGHTS (Daytime):

The women's luge competition begins today with the first two runs. Germany's all-world lugers swept the medals in this event at the Salt Lake Games and are expected to dominate again, though young and improving American Courtney Zablocki (Highlands Ranch, Colo.) is determined to upend the German juggernaut.

NBC HIGHLIGHTS (Latenight):

Tonight an exclusive review of the pairs competition through the eyes of NBC analysts Jamie Sal? and David Pelletier, who were at the center of the judging controversy four years in Salt Lake that eventually led to double gold medals for them and a new scoring system for the sport.

USA HIGHLIGHTS:

Curling, the "cult hit" of the 2002 Games, returns to the Olympic ice with LIVE coverage of the U.S. men's and women's teams, each in action against Norway. The USA women, led by sisters Cassie and Jamie Johnson of curling hotbed Bemidji, Minnesota, took silver at the most recent World Championship.

MSNBC HIGHLIGHTS:

LIVE coverage of women's hockey continues.

Highlights for Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2006, include:

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14

NBC

4:00 p.m.?5:00 p.m. Luge?Women's Singles Gold Medal Final

8:00 p.m.?11:30 p.m. Figure Skating?Men's Short Program Alpine Skiing?Men's Combined (Downhill & Slalom) Gold Medal Final Speed Skating?Women's 500m Gold Medal Final

12:05 a.m.?1:30 a.m. The Olympic Tonight Show with Jay Leno Figure Skating?Men's Short Program Analysis Cross Country?Men's Team Sprint Gold Medal Final Medals Plaza?Awards Ceremonies

1:30 a.m.?5:00 a.m. Primetime Replay

USA

3:00 a.m.?11:00 a.m. Curling?Women: USA vs. Canada (LIVE) Cross Country?Women's Team Sprint Gold Medal Final Biathlon?Men's 10km Sprint Gold Medal Final (LIVE) Curling?Men: USA vs. New Zealand (LIVE) Alpine Skiing?Women's Downhill Final Timed Training

2:30 p.m.?5:00 p.m. Hockey?Women: USA vs. Finland (LIVE)

6:00 p.m.?7:00 p.m. Olympic Ice

MSNBC

7:00 a.m.?2:30 p.m. Hockey?Women: Italy vs. Russia (LIVE) Women: Canada vs. Sweden (LIVE) Women: Switzerland vs. Germany (LIVE)

CNBC

5:00 p.m.?8:00 p.m. Curling?Women: USA vs. Japan

UNIVERSAL HD

7:00 a.m.?2:30 p.m. Hockey?Women: Italy vs. Russia (LIVE) Women: Canada vs. Sweden (LIVE) Women: Switzerland vs. Germany (LIVE)

2:30 p.m.?5:00 p.m. Hockey?Women: USA vs. Finland (LIVE)

6:00 p.m.?7:00 p.m. Olympic Ice

NBC HIGHLIGHTS (Primetime):

Figure skating resumes with the short program of the men's competition, featuring Russia's flashy Yevgeny Plushenko, silver medalist in Salt Lake City and the gold medal favorite at these Games. The Americans figure to be in the medal chase, as they team will include three-time National Champion Johnny Weir (Newark, Del.), 2005 World bronze medalist Evan Lysacek (Naperville, Ill.), and Cornell law-student-to-be Matt Savoie (Peoria, Ill.), who qualified for his first Olympic team at age 25.

The men's combined (downhill and slalom) represents another gold medal opportunity for Bode Miller, the 2003 world champion in this event. The bold New England superstar who dramatically took silver four years ago after nearly falling in men's combined, which combines the daring downhill with two runs of slalom, looks to turn his Salt Lake silver into Torino gold.

Tonight in speed skating, the fastest female skaters in the world sprint for Olympic gold in the 500m. Watch for China's Wang Manli, who was dismissed as talentless by her first childhood coach but persevered and grew into a world champion skater.

NBC HIGHLIGHTS (Daytime):

In the women's luge gold medal final, Germany's all-world lugers are expected to dominate and sweep the medals in this event as they did in Salt Lake. However, young and improving American Courtney Zablocki (Highlands Ranch, Colo.) is determined to upend the German juggernaut.

NBC HIGHLIGHTS (Latenight):

The world's fastest cross-country skiers sprint for team gold on the scenic course at Pragelato.

USA HIGHLIGHTS:

Angela Ruggiero (Harper Woods, Mich.), Krissy Wendell (Brooklyn Park, Minn.) and the world champion U.S. women's hockey team return to the ice LIVE with a tough match-up against a medal-contending team from Finland.

The USA's curling teams continue to sweep toward gold, with LIVE coverage of the women vs. 1998 Olympic champion Canada and the men vs. New Zealand.

In cross country's women's sprint gold medal final, the world's fastest cross-country skiers sprint for team gold on the scenic course at Pragelato.

Norwegian standout Ole Einar Bjoerndalen, who won four Olympic gold medals in 2002, looks to continue his winning ways LIVE on USA Network in the men's biathlon 10km sprint gold medal final.

Listings subject to change, please check NBCOlympics.com for updates.