The 2010 Winter Olympics are here! The $40-million Opening Ceremonies take place in Vancouver tonight, airing at 7:30 ET/PT on NBC. At their official site, you can enter your zip code for a personalized Olympics TV schedule and check out all the athletes in your favorite sports. The first event is the qualifying rounds for ski jumping, and the games conclude Sunday, February 28 with the men’s ice hockey gold-medal game.
Starting tomorrow, you can catch Alpine Skiing, Biathlon, Freestyle Skiing, Short Track, Ski Jumping, and Speedskating (the last of which is sure to get a big Colbert Bump this year, since Stephen Colbert’s Colbert Nation is the official sponsor of the team.
Each Olympics has a beloved star. This year it may be 25-year-old Alpine skiier Lindsay Vonn from Colorado. She competed in the 2002 and 2006 Olympic games and has yet to win a medal, but she is the first American woman to win back-to-back overall World Cup championships (doing so in 2008 and 2009), which makes her a front-runner in Vancouver this year. To interested parties, you can follow her journey on Twitter.
Some have criticized Vonn’s Sports Illustrated cover as being too sexually suggestive, but I agree with the Los Angeles Times–it’s just kind of silly!
