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. 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.

The United States is currently the dominant sled hockey country, having won three consecutive Paralympic gold medals and four of the last five.

In order to extend that streak, the team will once again be relying on its young star forwards, 24-year-old Declan Farmer and 23-year-old Brody Roybal, to lead the scoring charge. In goal, Jen Lee, a former U.S. Army sergeant born in Taiwan, has taken over for Steve Cash, who recently retired after a 16-year career with the national team.

Team USA's campaign for a fourth straight gold medal begins with a group-stage game against Canada, the team it has faced in the final of every Paralympic and world championship tournament since 2015.

Due to the IPC's recent ban on Russian athletes, the Russian sled hockey team, which earned bronze at last year's world championships, is out of the tournament. As one of the top four teams in the world, they had been set to play in the same group as the United States, Canada and South Korea. The three remaining teams in that group will still play each other, with the top two earning automatic byes into the semifinal round of the tournament and the third-place team going to a play-in game.

Between cross-country skiing and biathlon, this year's Paralympics could feature a lot of exciting competition between U.S. stars Oksana Masters and Kendall Gretsch.

Masters and Gretsch are both multi-sport athletes and participated in the Tokyo Paralympics last summer. Masters competed in road cycling, earning a Paralympic medal in her fourth different sport (cross-country, biathlon and rowing were the other three). Gretsch, meanwhile, did the triathlon and won gold in a thrilling sprint finish that was one of the indelible moments of the Games.

Now they're back on the snow and will compete against each other in the women's sitting division of the Nordic events throughout the course of these Paralympics, starting with the 6km biathlon race. Gretsch and Masters went 1-2 in this event at the last Paralympics, but Germany's Anja Wicker is the reigning world champion. In total, competitions will be held for three different classes — sitting, standing and vision impaired — for both men and women.

Masters, who was born in Ukraine and lived in orphanages there until being adopted by an American woman at age 7, says that she'll be racing "for the two countries that make me whole."

Ukraine's Paralympic athletes arrived just a few days ago, something that the team's top official hailed as a "miracle" after Russia's invasion of Ukraine made it challenging for the team to safely get out of the country and to the Games. Ukrainian athletes will be among the medal favorites in several biathlon events and even swept the podium in the women's 6km standing event at the recently-held world championships.

Para Alpine skiing gets underway with the downhill competition, and men's and women's events will each be held for three classes: sitting, standing and vision impaired.

Team USA's Andrew Kurka is the defending gold medalist in the men's sitting event. As a kid, Kurka was a state wrestling champion and once had dreams of competing in the Olympics as a wrestler, but after being partially paralyzed in an ATV accident at age 13, he ultimately discovered adaptive skiing. A practice crash left him unable to compete at the 2014 Paralympics, but Kurka came back in 2018 and won a pair of medals (gold in downhill, silver in super-G) to become Alaska's first-ever Paralympic medalist.

"The hill’s really nice and the conditions are flawless here, especially when the sun opens up and beats down on it," Kurka told TeamUSA.org following his final training run in Beijing. "The first training run I had some technical difficulties, but these last two have been fantastic, and I think my opponents know I have some podium potential."

Kurka's chief rivals this year will include reigning world champion Jesper Pederson of Norway. The Netherlands' Jeroen Kampschreur, the 2021 world silver medalist, and New Zealand's Corey Peters, the 2018 Paralympic bronze medalist, are among the other athletes to watch.

Since wheelchair curling debuted at the Winter Paralympics in 2006, the United States has yet to win a medal. But four years after a last-place finish at the PyeongChang Games, the Americans have reason for optimism.

Aside from vice skip Steve Emt, the U.S. team is full of Paralympic rookies. Together they led the U.S. to a fourth-place finish at last year's world championships — the country's best result in 13 years — and now have their sights set on a podium finish in Beijing.

"You can easily get lost in the experience of the Paralympic Games because it’s such an incredible experience," Emt told TeamUSA.org. "That happened a little bit in 2018. We didn’t deserve to win, and it’s different now with this team. We expect to win now. I’m telling everyone to enjoy themselves, but we’re going over there to win."

With the Russian team now barred from the Paralympics, there will be 11 teams competing in wheelchair curling at the Games. The U.S. begins round-robin play with a pair of matchups — one against Slovakia, one against Great Britain — on the opening day of the tournament.