The ice dancing duo of Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir will be the flag bearers for the Canadian flag during the opening ceremony for the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea. The opening ceremony airs live starting at 5:30 am Eastern Friday morning on CBC.
The CBC coverage starts tonight at 6:30 pm Eastern and 7 pm Eastern Thursday with Mixed Doubles Curling and Team Figure Skating. Live coverage runs from 7 pm Eastern to 1 pm Eastern starting on Friday.
Since the CBC has reacquired the Olympics coverage, TSN and Rogers Sportsnet carry some of the Olympics coverage. You can find the TSN schedule here.
To see who will handle which duties for the CBC, click here.
The men's hockey teams are filled with unknowns and relative unknowns since the NHL decided not to send players to the 2018 Winter Olympics. If you've picked the men over the women in this sport, don't make that mistake again. The Canadian women's team have proven to be the best in the world in the Olympics.
We know Chris Cuthbert and Ray Ferraro will help out on the men's hockey side. Mark Lee and Cassie Campbell-Pascall will work women's hockey. Gord Miller will actually work men's hockey for the NBC Universal group.
The new lyrics to O Canada are in place. Hopefully we will hear the new lyrics quite a few times in PyeongChang.
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Here are some notable individual Canadian competitors:
- Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir will be participating in their final Olympics in ice dancing. The duo won silver in 2014 and previously won a gold medal.
- Kaillie Humphries wants to win gold for the 3rd straight time as the bobsleigh pilot.
- Patrick Chan has won silver twice in figure skating.
- Justine Dufour-Lapointe and Chloe Dufour-Lapointe will be without their sister Maxime in 2018. The three sisters competed in moguls with Justine winning and Chloe silver at Sochi in 2014.
- Marianne St-Gelais has plenty of silver medals, 3 in fact, in short-track speed skating. This will be her third Olympic Games.
- Charles Hamelin has 3 gold medals in short-track speed skating, including 1,500 metres in 2014.
- Mark McMorris won bronze in slopestyle in Sochi. His comeback story after a horrible back country accident will be compelling.
For those watching on the U.S. side, NBC Universal and its many channels will carry the 2018 Olympics in PyeongChang.
photo credit: Rogers Sportsnet
Chris Cuthbert and Ray Ferraro both calling men's hockey for the CBC.
Posted by: Tyler | February 08, 2018 at 12:40 PM