Olympic Medalist Ted Ligety & More Set for This Week's Road to Pyeongchang Coverage on NBC

With just over two weeks to go until the start of the XXIII Olympic Winter Games from PyeongChang, South Korea, NBC Sports Group will present more than 80 hours of Olympic winter sports coverage this week across NBC, NBCSN, Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA, NBCSports.com, the NBC Sports app, OlympicChannel.com, and the Olympic Channel app, highlighted by U.S. Ski & Snowboard Putnam Investments Freestyle Cup coverage from Lake Placid, N.Y., and live FIS ALPINE SKIING World Cup coverage from Lenzerheide, Switzerland, and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

Top U.S. athletes and PyeongChang Winter Olympic hopefuls slated to be featured this weekend throughout NBC Sports' Olympic winter sports coverage include:

• 2014 Olympic slalom gold medalist Mikaela Shiffrin
• Two-time Olympic alpine skiing gold medalist Ted Ligety
• 2014 Olympic luge bronze medalist Erin Hamlin
• 2013 ski jumping world champion Sarah Hendrickson
• Sochi Olympian Jessie Diggins

This week's coverage also features various winter sports, including:

• Four Continents FIGURE SKATING Championships from Taipei City, Chinese Taipei
• Cross-country skiing from Seefeld, Austria
• Luge from Sigulda, Latvia
• Ski jumping from Ljubno, Slovenia, and Zakopane, Poland

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