World Cup Finals Week

Many U.S. Ski & Snowboard Team athletes will be competing in their final World Cups of the season this weekend, including Olympic champions Mikaela Shiffrin (Eagle/Vail, Colo.) and Jessie Diggins (Afton, Minn.). While Shiffrin has already locked in her second overall title and fifth slalom title, Diggins is in the hunt to finish in the top three in the overall and distance cross country standings. Lindsey Vonn is just 23 points off from winning the overall downhill title. Mogul skier Jaelin Kauf (Alta, Wyo.) is also still in the running for a top-three finish in the moguls standings while Red Gerard (Silverthorne, Colo.) leads the men’s slopestyle snowboarding standings. Read on to see where the action is this week and how to watch via NBCSN and the Olympic Channel - Home of Team USA.

FIS Ski World Cup Finals - Are, Sweden
The World Cup Finals take place this week (March 14-18) in Are, Sweden, site of the 2019 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships. Lindsey Vonn (Vail, Colo.) will be competing for the World Cup downhill title in Wednesday’s race. Olympic downhill champion Sofia Goggia of Italy holds the World Cup lead with 429 points, while Vonn is second with 406 points. Vonn is also scheduled to compete in the super-G Thursday. Having already wrapped up the overall and slalom World Cup titles last weekend in Germany, Shiffrin is scheduled to race in the slalom Saturday and giant slalom Sunday.

FIS Freeski World Cup - Megeve, France (Skicross World Cup Finals)
Tanya Prymak (Goshen, N.Y.) will look to close out her season on a high note at the skicross World Cup finals in Megeve, France on March 17.

FIS Freeski World Cup - Seiseralm, Switzerland (Slopestyle World Cup Finals)
Caroline Claire (Edina, Minn.), Julia Krass (Hanover, N.H.), Nick Goepper (Lawrenceburg, Ind.), McRae Williams (Park City, Utah) and newly crowned World Cup winner Alex Hall (Park City, Utah) headline the U.S. starters for slopestyle skiing World Cup finals in Seiseralm, Switzerland. Qualifying takes place on Wednesday, March 14 followed by finals on Friday, March 16.

FIS Freestyle World Cup - Megeve, France (Moguls World Cup Finals)
The moguls World Cup season concludes March 18 with a dual moguls competition in Megeve, France. Kauf is sitting 66 points behind current World Cup leader Perinne Laffont of France and, and with a good result this weekend could move up in the standings. The U.S. women’s moguls team currently has four athletes ranked in the top 10.

FIS Cross Country World Cup Finals - Falun, Sweden
The World Cup tour journeys to Sweden for the Finals in Falun March 16-18. The schedule is very U.S.-centric with an opening freestyle sprint on Friday, a 15k/10k classic mass start on Saturday and a 15k/10k freestyle pursuit Sunday to close the season. Diggins (Afton, Minn.) is third in the overall and distance World Cup standings, while Sophie Caldwell (Peru, Vt.) is third in the sprint standings.

FIS Men’s Ski Jumping World Cup - Lillehammer/Trondheim/Vikersund, Norway
Kevin Bickner (Wauconda, Ill.) and Michael Glasder (Cary, Ill.) will close out the Raw Air Tournament with four competitions March 13-18. Athletes will take to the HS140 hill in Lillehammer on March 13 followed by the HS138 hill in Trondheim. The weekend closes out with ski flying on the HS240 hill in Vikersund March 17-18.

FIS Nordic Combined World Cup - Trondheim, Norway; Klingenthal, Germany
Brothers Bryan and Taylor Fletcher (Steamboat Springs, Colo.), Jasper Good (Steamboat Springs, Colo.) and Ben Loomis (Eau Claire, Wisc.) kick off the week in Trondheim with two events on March 13 and 14. These events will be the final events of Bryan’s career. Stephen Schumann (Park City, Utah) joins Fletcher, Good and Loomis for another doubleheader in Klingenthal.

FIS Snowboard World Cup - Veysonnaz, Switzerland (Snowboardcross World Cup Finals)
The snowboardcross World Cup season concludes this weekend with individual and team events in Veysonnaz, Switzerland. The U.S. is coming off a successful weekend with a team podium and multiple top 10 individual finishes last weekend in Moscow and will be fielding a strong men’s team for World Cup finals.

FIS Snowboard World Cup - Seiseralm, Italy (Slopestyle World Cup Finals)
Seiseralm will also play host to the final slopestyle snowboarding event of the season this week with qualifications on Thursday, March 15 and finals on Saturday, March 17. Chris Corning (Silverthorne. Colo.), Ryan Stassel (Anchorage, Alaska), Chandler Hunt (Park City, Utah), Judd Henkes (La Jolla, Calif.), Lyon Farrell (Haiku, Hawaii) and Eric Willett (Breckenridge, Colo.) will represent the U.S. Olympic gold medalist Red Gerard (Silverthorne, Colo.) currently leads the World Cup standings, but will not be competing.

HOW TO WATCH
*All times EDT

ALPINE
Wednesday, March 14
5:30 a.m. - World Cup Finals men’s downhill, Are - Olympic Channel TV - LIVE
7:00 a.m. - World Cup Finals women’s downhill, Are - Olympic Channel TV - LIVE
12:00 p.m. - World Cup Finals men’s downhill, Are - NBCSN - Same Day Broadcast
1:00 p.m. - World Cup Finals women’s downhill, Are - NBCSN - Same Day Broadcast

Thursday, March, 15
5:30 a.m. - World Cup Finals women’s super-G, Are - Olympic Channel TV - LIVE
7:00 a.m. - World Cup Finals men’s super-G, Are - Olympic Channel TV - LIVE
12:00 p.m. - World Cup Finals women’s super-G, Are - NBCSN - Same Day Broadcast
1:00 p.m. - World Cup Finals men’s super-G, Are - NBCSN - Same Day Broadcast

Friday, March 16
11:00 a.m. - World Cup Finals team event, Are - Olympic Channel TV - LIVE
5:30 p.m. - World Cup Finals team event, Are - NBCSN - Same Day Broadcast

Saturday, March 17
4:45 a.m. - World Cup Finals men’s giant slalom run 1, Are - OlympicChannel.com
5:45 a.m. - World Cup Finals women’s slalom run 1, Are - OlympicChannel.com
7:30 a.m. - World Cup Finals men’s giant slalom, Are - Olympic Channel TV - LIVE
8:30 a.m. - World Cup Finals women’s slalom, Are - Olympic Channel TV - LIVE
6:30 p.m. - World Cup Finals men’s giant slalom, Are - NBCSN - Same Day Broadcast
7:30 p.m. - World Cup Finals women’s slalom, Are - NBCSN - Same Day Broadcast

Sunday, March 18
4:45 a.m. - World Cup Finals women’s giant slalom run 1, Are - OlympicChannel.com
5:45 a.m. - World Cup Finals men’s slalom run 1, Are - OlympicChannel.com
7:30 a.m. - World Cup Finals women’s giant slalom, Are - Olympic Channel TV - LIVE
8:30 a.m. - World Cup Finals men’s slalom, Are - Olympic Channel TV - LIVE
3:00 p.m. - World Cup Finals men’s slalom & women’s giant slalom, Are - NBCSN - Same Day Broadcast

FREESKI
March 16
6:30 a.m. - Slopestyle, Seiseralm - Olympic Channel TV - LIVE

March 17
8:30 a.m. - Skicross, Megeve - OlympicChannel.com
1:00 p.m. - Skicross, Megeve - Olympic Channel TV - Same Day Broadcast

FREESTYLE
March 18
7:30 a.m. - Dual moguls, Megeve - OlympicChannel.com
3:00 p.m. - Dual moguls, Megeve - Olympic Channel TV - Same Day Broadcast

CROSS COUNTRY
March 16
7:15 a.m. - Men and women’s sprint, Falun - OlympicChannel.com
2:00 p.m. - Men and women’s sprint, Falun - Olympic Channel TV - Same Day Broadcast

March 17
6:30 a.m. - Women’s 10k mass start, Falun -  OlympicChannel.com
9:30 a.m. - Men’s 15k mass start, Falun -  OlympicChannel.com
4:00 p.m. - Women’s 10k mass start, Falun - Olympic Channel TV - Same Day Broadcast

March 18
6:30 a.m. - Women’s 10k pursuit, Falun - OlympicChannel.com
9:15 a.m. - Men’s 15k pursuit, Falun - OlympicChannel.com
4:00 p.m. - Women’s 10k pursuit, Falun - Olympic Channel TV - Same Day Broadcast

SKI JUMPING
March 14
12:30 p.m. - Men’s HS138 qualifying, Trondheim - OlympicChannel.com

March 15
12:00 p.m. - Men’s HS138, Trondheim - Olympic Channel TV - LIVE

March 16
12:30 p.m. - Men’s HS240 qualifying, Vikersund - OlympicChannel.com

March 17
11:15 a.m. - Men’s HS240 Team, Vikersund - OlympicChannel.com
7:30 a.m. - Men’s HS240 Team, Vikersund - Olympic Channel TV - Same Day Broadcast

March 18
11:30 a.m. - Men’s HS240, Vikersund - OlympicChannel.com
6:00 p.m. - Men’s HS240, Vikersund - Olympic Channel TV - Same Day Broadcast

NORDIC COMBINED
March 14
8:00 a.m. - Men’s HS 140, Trondheim - OlympicChannel.com
8:00 a.m. - Men’s individual, Trondheim - OlympicChannel.com

March 17
4:45 a.m. - Men’s HS 140, Klingenthal - OlympicChannel.com
8:45 a.m. - Men’s 4x5k, Klingenthal - OlympicChannel.com

March 18
7:30 a.m. - Men’s HS 130, Klingenthal - OlympicChannel.com
11:00 a.m. - Men’s 10k, Klingenthal - OlympicChannel.com

SNOWBOARDING
March 17
5:50 a.m. - Parallel giant slalom, Winterberg - OlympicChannel.com
6:30 a.m. - Snowboardcross, Veysonnaz - OlympicChannel.com
11:00 a.m. - Snowboardcross, Veysonnaz - Olympic Channel TV - Same Day Broadcast
12:00 p.m. - Slopestyle, Seiseralm - Olympic Channel TV - Same Day Broadcast

March 18
4:35 a.m. - Parallel giant slalom team, Winterberg - OlympicChannel.com
6:30 a.m. - Snowboardcross team, Veysonnaz  - OlympicChannel.com
11:00 a.m. - Snowboardcross team, Veysonnaz - Olympic Channel TV - Same Day Broadcast