Wish you could join the two dozen athletes with Vermont ties who will be tested by the 2022 Winter Olympics?
You can — by facing the equally Olympic challenge of trying to figure out how to watch them on television.
NBC and its sister cable networks and streaming service are set to provide coverage of events from the Feb. 4 opening ceremony to the Feb. 20 closing.
We want to tell you each and every way you can tune into each and every athlete born, schooled or trained in the Green Mountain State.
Yes, we want to. Then we tried to navigate the countless schedules on NBCOlympics.com.
The website offers pages on how to watch four of the favorites:
How to watch Mikaela Shiffrin, the 26-year-old two-time alpine gold medalist and graduate of Burke Mountain Academy in the Northeast Kingdom.
How to watch Jessie Diggins, the 30-year-old Stratton-trained cross-country gold medalist.
How to watch Jamie Anderson, a 31-year-old two-time slopestyle gold medalist whose mother owns the Weaving Dreams alpaca farm in Hartland.
How to watch Ryan Cochran-Siegle, the 29-year-old Starksboro alpine skier whose mother, Barbara Ann Cochran of Richmond’s Cochran’s Ski Area, won slalom gold at the 1972 Winter Games.
As for everybody else? That’s not as easy, be it for a lack of similar pages and a lot of “subject to change” notices. Your best bet is to log on to the links for their individual sports:
How to watch cross-country skiing.
How to watch freestyle skiing.
As for “How to successfully navigate the Sisyphean challenge of NBCOlympics.com?” We’re still searching for that.
— Kevin O’Connor
