The Olympics continues tonight with the third figure skating event: ice dancing. Snowboarding big air also makes its debut as an Olympic event. Here are your must-see events today in PyeongChang.
Figure skating: Ice dancing begins
5:00 p.m. MT | Watch on NBCSN or here
Ice dancing siblings Maia and Alex Shibutani take the ice once again in the individual portion of the figure skating competition. They helped Team USA nab a bronze medal in the team event. They're joined by two other Team USA ice dancing duos: Madison Hubbel and Zachary Donohue, and Madison Chock and Evan Bates. Tonight pairs will do their short dance, and tomorrow they will do the free dance. If you want to see every country compete, full coverage is on NBCSN. For highlights, watch primetime on NBC at 7:00pm ET / 4:00pm PT
Snowboarding: Women's big air qualifiers begin
7:30 p.m. MT | Watch on NBC or here
Big air is making its debut as an Olympic event this year in PyeongChang, thanks to the popularity of halfpipe snowboarding (added in 1998) and slopestyle (added in 2014).
Rigby's Jessika Jenson will be a part of history at the 2018 PyeongChang Games, as the Women's Big Air makes its Olympic debut. If Jenson advances, she will compete in the finals on Thursday, Feb. 22 at 5:30 p.m. MT. Jenson laid down a huge run in adverse weather conditions in the women’s slopestyle event last Sunday. She was on the podium until the last few riders went down the hill. Jenson ended up finishing in fifth place.
Team USA has several women competing for spots in the finals: Hailey Langland, Julia Marino, and Jamie Anderson. The favorite to win is currently Austria's Anna Gasser.
Nick Cunningham competes in bobsled's two-man event
5:00 p.m. MT | Watch on NBC or here
Three-time Olympian Nick Cunningham continues competition after arriving in PyeongChang nearly three weeks ago. Cunningham struggled in runs 1 and 2 early Sunday morning. Justin Olsen, a bobsled pilot, underwent an appendectomy on February 5 in Gangneung. He was one of three pilots to earn a spot on the U.S. team. He's teamed up with Evan Weinstock for the two-man event. Codie Bascue and Sam McGuffie make up the second pair, and Nick Cunningham and Hakeem Abdul-Saboor make up the third.
Women's hockey semifinal game
9:00 p.m. MT | Watch on NBCSN or here
Hilary Knight and Team USA faces off with Finland in the women's semifinal game tonight.
Maddie Bowman defends gold freestyle skiing
5:00 p.m. MT | Watch on NBC or here
Bowman won the gold medal in the women's halfpipe event in freestyle skiing at Sochi. She'll be defending her medal tonight during the qualifying rounds. She'll be joined by her teammates Brita Sigourney, Devin Logan and Annalisa Drew.
Men's aerial skiing finals
1:00 p.m. MT | Watch on NBC
Qi Guangpu of China is the favorite to win, but Jon Lillis of Team USA may threaten Guangpu for the gold.
Teammates Mac Bohonnon and Eric Loughran failed to qualify for the final. Bohonnon was considered a medal contender for the U.S. On his first jump, Bohonnon couldn’t land his jump properly, landing too hard on his left ski. On his second jump, he executed the difficult back-full double-full full. However, on a day where the top six executed their jumps perfectly, it was not enough. Bohonnon placed fifth in Sochi in the same event, and had been practicing a trick called "The Hurricane." The trick was invented by aerials skier Jeret "Speedy" Peterson, who passed away in 2011 and was the last American man to medal in the event.
