The 2022 Paralympic Winter Games will run from March 4-13, and each day, NBCOlympics.com will provide a rundown of what to watch in every sport. All events listed below will stream live on NBCOlympics.com and Peacock, and all times indicated are in Eastern Time on Thursday night or Friday morning. USA Network and Olympic Channel will also provide television coverage throughout the Paralympics. Visit the schedule page for listings sorted by sport and TV network.
Para Snowboarding
Event | Time (ET) | How to Watch |
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M/W Banked Slalom | 10:00 p.m. | NBCOlympics.com |
The United States won three medals in snowboard cross earlier this week and will once again have multiple medal favorites for banked slalom, the final snowboard event of these Paralympics.
In the women's competition, Baton Rouge's Brenna Huckaby is looking for her second straight Paralympic title in banked slalom. She won gold in the LL1 classification four years ago, but her classification has since been removed from the Paralympic program due to a lack of athletes. Faced with the possibility of not being able to compete, Huckaby took legal action to win the right to "compete up" against less-impaired athletes in the LL2 class. Although she's technically competing at a disadvantage in Beijing, Huckaby successfully captured bronze in snowboard cross after recovering from an early crash during the big final. France's Cecile Hernandez, a fellow LL1 competitor, took gold in that event and finished second behind Huckaby in LL1 banked slalom in 2018.
Other contenders will include reigning LL2 world champion Lisa Bunschoten of the Netherlands and 2018 silver medalist Brittani Coury of the United States.
On the men's side, banked slalom competitions will be held for three classifications. Aside from the LL1 and LL2 classes, which are for athletes with varying degrees of lower-limb impairments, there is also a separate class (UL) for athletes with upper-limb impairments.
Mike Schultz (LL1) and Garrett Geros (LL2) earned silver medals in their respective snowboard cross events and will now try to add banked slalom hardware to their tallies. Meanwhile, their U.S. teammates Noah Elliott (LL1) and Zach Miller (LL2) enter as the reigning world champions. Elliott is also the defending Paralympic gold medalist in his classification.
In the men's UL event, American Mike Minor is the defending gold medalist, but China could be difficult to beat after its athletes swept the snowboard cross podium in this classification.
Sled Hockey
Event | Time (ET) | How to Watch |
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Semifinal: Canada vs South Korea | 11:05 p.m. | NBCOlympics.com |
5th Place: Czech Republic vs Italy | 3:05 a.m. | NBCOlympics.com |
Semifinal: USA vs China | 7:05 a.m. | NBCOlympics.com, USA |
After a four-day layoff, the United States sled hockey team is back in action with a spot in the gold medal game on the line. The Americans will take on an undefeated Chinese team which locked up a semifinal berth on Tuesday with a 4-3 win over the Czech Republic.
China, which will be competing on home ice, has never won a sled hockey medal at the Paralympics. Meanwhile, the United States has won the gold medal at the previous three editions of the Games and four of the last five. Puck drop is scheduled for 7:05 a.m. ET Friday morning.
"Right now, we’re just working on ourselves. We’re trying to correct stuff that we can control," Josh Misiewicz, who has scored six points so far in the tournament, told TeamUSA.org. "The work ethic on this team I’ve never seen before. We definitely trained hard in 2018, but this team is on a whole other level. Our leadership — Josh Pauls, Declan Farmer, Rico Roman — they really figured out how to get every player on this team and in the development program to push themselves to a new level."
Before the U.S. takes the ice, Canada and South Korea square off at 11:05 p.m. ET for the other spot in the gold medal game. The Canadians, whose only loss thus far was to the United States, also received a bye into the semifinal round, while South Korea, coming off a bronze medal in 2018, dismissed Italy 4-0 in a quarterfinal to book its final-four berth.
Para Biathlon
Event | Time (ET) | How to Watch |
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M/W 12.5km Sitting | 9:00 p.m. | NBCOlympics.com |
M/W 12.5km Standing | 11:15 p.m. | NBCOlympics.com |
M/W 12.5km Vision Impaired | 1:00 a.m. | NBCOlympics.com, USA |
After going 1-2 in the women's biathlon 10km sitting event on Tuesday, Americans Kendall Gretsch and Oksana Masters are back in action in the longest biathlon distance at the Paralympics, the 12.5km race, and both athletes have plenty of reason to feel confident about their own respective medal chances. Masters enters as the defending silver medalist from PyeongChang 2018, while Gretsch won gold in the 12km cross-country skiing event at the same Games in a testament to her stamina. Gretsch and Masters, who won the 6km biathlon event, are the United States' lone gold medalists at the Beijing Paralympics thus far.
The biggest story across all classifications and genders in biathlon at the 2022 Winter Paralympics has been the success of Ukrainian athletes, who have won a staggering 16 of a possible 36 medals through two-thirds of the biathlon program. Athletes from the war-overcome nation have swept the podium in three separate events in Beijing. Vitalii Lukianenko leads the charge with a pair of gold medals in the visual impairment classification. He could complete a sweep of his events with long-distance gold.
Para Alpine Skiing
Event | Time (ET) | How to Watch |
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Women's GS: First Runs | 7:30 p.m. | NBCOlympics.com |
Women's GS: Final Runs | 10:45 p.m. | NBCOlympics.com |
One day after Thomas Walsh secured Team USA's first Alpine skiing medal of the 2022 Games in the men's giant slalom, Laurie Stephens has a good chance to add to that in the women's GS. Stephens, 38, is competing at her fifth Paralympic Games and is looking to add to her collection of seven medals which includes a giant slalom gold. Born with spina bifida and competing in the sitting classification, Stephens won gold in giant slalom at the most recent world championships.
One of the favorites in that event will be defending Paralympic champion Momoka Muraoka of Japan. Muraoka, who did not compete at the world championships, has already won two gold medals (downhill, super-G) and one silver (super combined) at the Beijing Games. Germany's Anna-Lena Forster is the only other woman to win gold in a sit-ski Alpine event at these Paralympics.
Races will also be held in the women's standing and vision impaired classes.
Wheelchair Curling
Event | Time (ET) | How to Watch |
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Semifinal: China vs Canada | 1:35 a.m. | NBCOlympics.com, Olympic Channel |
Semifinal: Slovakia vs Sweden | 1:35 a.m. | NBCOlympics.com, Olympic Channel |
Bronze Medal Game | 6:35 a.m. | NBCOlympics.com, Olympic Channel |
The wheelchair curling tournament is down to the final four, with two semifinals plus the bronze medal game on tap for Day 7.
China, the defending champion, enters as the top seed and the only team to win eight games during round-robin play. They'll play Canada in one semifinal match, with the winner of that game going on to face the winner of Slovakia vs. Sweden in the gold medal game on the following day.
The losers of those two games will meet in the bronze medal game at 6:35 a.m. ET.