2022 Winter Olympics Viewer’s Guide: What to Watch for in Beijing

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🗓️ 1 February 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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The Winter Olympics begin this week, but if you’re anything like us, you probably need some help getting up to speed on who to watch out for in Beijing. There’s Red Gerard, defending gold medalist in snowboarding from the 2018 Winter Games in PyeongChang, whose family just might be the Gronkowskis of the Olympics. There is the most decorated American skier ever, Mikaela Shriffin, who finally gets the spotlight to herself with the retirement of Lindsey Vonn. And then there’s Chloe Kim, who famously won gold in 2018 at the age of 18…but her path back to the snow has been a rocky one. Our resident Olympics correspondent Alyssa Roenigk is here to fill you in on everything you need to know for the 2022 Winter Games. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here we go!
0:05.0	Oh!
0:07.0	Second for blow over and Schifrin has made history.
0:13.0	That is absolutely remarkable.
0:16.0	And Schifrin burst into tears.
0:34.0	That was one of America's most dominant athletes, skier Michaela Schifrin, who is about to be all over your television set.
0:38.9	Because while we've all been nursing our NFL addictions for the past couple months, another massive sporting event gets started this week. And it's something called
0:45.2	the Olympics. And if you are anything like me, you're ready for exactly none of it. So today,
0:56.2	our Olympics expert, Alyssa Ronek,
1:00.4	gives you some news you can use, a viewer's guide to these winter games,
1:02.5	who you need to know, when you need to watch,
1:06.7	and maybe most importantly, how to find any of this on your television.
1:14.7	I'm Pablo Torre. It's Tuesday, February 1st. This is ESPN Daily.
1:30.3	So, Alyssa, I have so many questions about the Olympics, which are starting this weekend in Beijing, in China, and the moral ones I'm going to deal with on an episode to come later this week. I have so many just practical
1:37.1	questions, though, about like what I'm going to be watching or what I'm going to be trying to
1:41.0	watch even. And so I bring you on to be my guide in so many senses, both
1:45.4	expert and TV guide almost. Like, how exactly, seriously, do I watch any of this?
1:51.1	So I'm hoping you received the package I sent you with the Abacus and the Decoder Ring and the
1:55.4	14 different schedules. That's only slightly a joke. I mean, to be totally honest with you, even though I'll be
2:01.6	covering the Olympics with the rest of our colleagues from home, I will still have three How to
2:06.4	Watch documents open on my computer. It's NBCOlympics.com. I have the NBC app on my phone. I have a
2:12.1	subscription to Peacock, a subscription to the Olympic channel. And that's in addition to the access I have as a writer. So they
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