NBC Sports Presents More Than 30 Hours Of World Badminton Championships Coverage This Week
By: Tori Hartshorn Jul. 31, 2018
NBC Sports presents more than 30 hours of comprehensive coverage across seven days of the 2018 World Badminton Championships from Nanjing, China, beginning today at 5 p.m. ET on Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA. Coverage concludes Sunday, Aug. 5, at 5 p.m. ET on NBCSN.
Comprehensive live coverage of the event is available on OlympicChannel.comand the Olympic Channel app. Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA content will be streamed via authentication on NBCSports.com, OlympicChannel.com, the NBC Sports app, and the Olympic Channel app.
One of the top international events of the year, the World Badminton Championships features American Beiwen Zhang, who recently earned silver at the U.S. Open in June and won the India Open earlier this year. The United States last won a badminton world title (men's doubles) in 2005.
Coverage of Olympic Sports on NBC Sports Group platforms is a presentation of the Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA.
Following is a schedule of this week's events:
| Date | Time (ET) | Coverage | Network |
| Mon., July 30 | 5 p.m. | Day 1* | Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA |
| 10 p.m. | Day 2 | OlympicChannel.com & Olympic Channel App | |
| Tues., July 31 | 5 p.m. | Day 2* | Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA |
| 10 p.m. | Day 3 | OlympicChannel.com & Olympic Channel App | |
| Wed., Aug. 1 | 5 p.m. | Day 3* | Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA |
| 10 p.m. | Day 4 | OlympicChannel.com & Olympic Channel App | |
| Thurs., Aug. 2 | 5 p.m. | Day 4* | Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA |
| 11 p.m. | Day 5 | OlympicChannel.com & Olympic Channel App | |
| Fri., Aug. 3 | 6 a.m. | Day 5 | OlympicChannel.com & Olympic Channel App |
| 5 p.m. | Day 5* | Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA | |
| 11:00 p.m. | Day 6 | OlympicChannel.com & Olympic Channel App | |
| Sat., Aug. 4 | 6 a.m. | Day 6 | OlympicChannel.com & Olympic Channel App |
| 5 p.m. | Day 6 * | Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA | |
| Sun., Aug. 5 | 1 a.m. | Day 7 | OlympicChannel.com & Olympic Channel App |
| 12 p.m. | Day 7* | Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA | |
| 5 p.m. | Day 7 * | NBCSN |
*Same-day delay
ABOUT OLYMPIC CHANNEL: HOME OF TEAM USA
Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA is a partnership between the International Olympic Committee, the United States Olympic Committee, and NBCUniversal. The TV network offers fans year-round programming of Olympic Sports from around the world, highlighting their favorite American athletes and teams. Programming emphasizes live events from a broad portfolio of summer and winter Olympic Sports. It also includes Olympic-themed original content produced by all three parties, such as original programs produced by filmmakers from around the world commissioned by the global Olympic Channel; rich archival footage from the IOC and NBCU's libraries of Olympic features and documentaries; and original Team USA programming produced by the USOC that provides authentic, wide-ranging and athlete-focused coverage of the Olympic Movement in the United States. Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA is live streamed on OlympicChannel.com, the Olympic Channel app, NBCSports.com, and the NBC Sports app. Select replays and highlights are available on these digital platforms as well as TeamUSA.org.
Comments
Videos