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The Greeneville Sun, Greeneville, TN January 29 - February 4, 2022 — 3 2 x 3.5" ad a) swango's b) greene cnty farmers 2 x 4" ad williams electric 2 x 1.5" ad ymca 2 x 1.5" ad doughty stevens 2 x 1.5" ad midway const. 10:05 p.m. ESPN NBA Basketball Denver Nuggets at Utah Jazz. (Live) THURSDAY 7:00 p.m. ESPN2 College Basket- ball Memphis at Cincinnati. (Live) 7:30 p.m. TNT NBA Basketball Phoenix Suns at Atlanta Hawks. (Live) 8:00 p.m. ESPN College Basketball UCLA at Arizona. (Live) 9:00 p.m. ESPN2 College Basket - ball Gonzaga at Pepperdine. (Live) 10:00 p.m. ESPN Women's College Basketball Stanford at UCLA. (Live) TNT NBA Basketball Los Ange- les Lakers at Los Angeles Clippers. (Live) 11:00 p.m. ESPN2 College Basket- ball USC at Arizona State. (Live) FSSE College Basketball Saint Mary's at Portland. (Live) FRIDAY 7:00 p.m. ESPN2 College Basket- ball St. Bonaventure at Richmond. (Live) 7:30 p.m. FSSE NBA Basketball Atlanta Hawks at Toronto Rap- tors. (Live) 10:00 p.m. ESPN NBA Basketball New Orleans Pelicans at Denver Nuggets. (Live) FOOTBALL SUNDAY 3:00 p.m. 11 NFL Football AFC Conference Championship. (Live) 6:30 p.m. 39 NFL Football NFC Conference Championship. (Live) GOLF SATURDAY 4:30 p.m. 11 PGA Tour Golf Farm- ers Insurance Open, Final Round. (Live) HOCKEY WEDNESDAY 7:00 p.m. TNT NHL Hockey Edmon- ton Oilers at Washington Capitals. (Live) 9:30 p.m. TNT NHL Hockey Minne- sota Wild at Chicago Blackhawks. (Live) OLYMPICS WEDNESDAY 6:00 p.m. USA 2022 Winter Olym- pics Mixed Doubles Curling — Australia vs U.S. (Same-day Tape) 8:00 p.m. USA 2022 Winter Olym- pics Mixed Doubles Curling — U.S. vs Italy. (Live) 10:00 p.m. USA 2022 Winter Olympics Alpine Skiing. (Live) 11:10 p.m. USA 2022 Winter Olympics Women's Hockey — Switzerland vs Canada. (Live) THURSDAY 8:10 a.m. USA 2022 Winter Olym- pics Women's Hockey — Finland vs U.S. (Live) 10:30 a.m. USA 2022 Winter Olympics Mixed Doubles Curling — Norway vs Canada. (Live) 5:00 p.m. USA 2022 Winter Olym- pics Women's Hockey — Finland vs U.S. 7:30 p.m. USA 2022 Winter Olym- pics Mixed Doubles Curling — Canada vs Switzerland. (Live) 8:00 p.m. 5 10 2022 Winter Olympics Freestyle Skiing, Figure Skating. (Live) 9:30 p.m. USA 2022 Winter Olym - pics Mixed Doubles Curling — Italy vs Norway. (Same-day Tape) FRIDAY 2:00 p.m. USA 2022 Winter Olym- pics Mixed Doubles Curling — Sweden vs U.S. 4:00 p.m. USA 2022 Winter Olym - pics Figure Skating. (Same-day Tape) 5:15 p.m. USA 2022 Winter Olym - pics Figure Skating. (Same-day Tape) 6:30 p.m. USA 2022 Winter Olym - pics Figure Skating. (Same-day Tape) 8:00 p.m. 5 10 2022 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony. (Same-day Tape) USA 2022 Winter Olympics Mixed Doubles Curling — Switzer - land vs Sweden. (Live) 10:00 p.m. USA 2022 Winter Olympics Snowboarding. (Live) By George Dickie Anyone who tuned into the Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olym- pics in Beijing bore witness to an event they wouldn't soon forget. The four-hour, nine-minute display of special effects, lights and ingenuity set a new standard for an Opening Ceremony and drew raves from international media for being spectacular and spellbinding, a show that no host city has since matched in imagination and magnitude. Almost 14 years later, the Chinese capital is once again in the spotlight as the host of the 2022 Winter Olympics, which get underway Wednesday, Feb. 2, two days before the official Opening Cer - emony on Friday, Feb. 4. NBC, Peacock, USA Network, CNBC, NBCOlympics. com and NBC Sports app will again team up to provide 3,000-plus hours of cover - age over 17 days of a record 109 medal events in 15 sports, among them figure skating, alpine skiing, snowboarding, ice hockey, speed skating, freestyle skiing, biathlon and luge. International athletes expected to vie for hardware at these Games include Mi - kael Kingsbury (freestyle skiing, Canada), Hanyu Yuzuru (figure skating, Japan), Mikaela Shiffrin (alpine skiing, U.S.), Francesco Friedrich (bobsled, Germany), Suzanne Schulting (short track speed skating, Netherlands), Charlotte Kalla (cross-country skiing, Sweden), Nathan Chen (figure skating, U.S.), Eileen Gu (freestyle skiing, China), Sara Takanashi (ski jumping, Japan), Tina Hermann (skeleton, Germany) and Ester Ledecka (snowboarding, alpine skiing, Czech Republic). Of course, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic will also play into the storylines as conditions continue to change. For their part, the International Olympic Committee and Olympic organizers have made clear that these Games will go on and the athletes will be subject to strict protocols, including requiring vaccina - tions, keeping them isolated inside the Olympic "bubble" and not allowing them out among the citizenry. One interesting thing to watch is the performance of athletes from the host country at these Games. China is not known for winter sports and in the lead up to these Olympics have hired inter- national coaches to coach its athletes in hopes of inspiring more Chinese to try skiing, snowboarding, figure skating and other winter sports and thus make the country a more significant presence on the international stage. As for opening week sports to watch, curling kicks things off on Wednesday, Feb. 2, with the U.S. facing Australia. Women's hockey then faces off on Thurs - day, Feb. 3, with Team USA opening its defense of its 2018 gold medal with a preliminary contest against Finland. Figure skating then gets going Friday, Feb. 4, with men's short program, ice dance rhythm dance and pairs short program prior to the Opening Ceremony. And on Saturday, Feb. 5, freestyle ski - ing makes its first appearance with the final in men's moguls, in which Canada's Kingsbury will attempt to defend his gold medal from 2018 in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Back to Beijing: Chinese capital hosts 2022 Winter Games Cover Story Cover Story 423-422-1601 One Y. One Community. 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