POSTED: Thursday January 20th 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
WINTER DEW TOUR CONTINUES THIS WEEKEND ON NBC & USA
Competitions Feature Olympians Louie Vito, Kelly Clark and Elena Hight
NEW YORK - January 20, 2011 - NBC Sports presents live coverage of the Winter Dew Tour from Killington Resort in Killington, Vt., the second of three stops of the Winter Dew Tour's junior season. The tour features over 150 of the best winter action sports athletes competing for their sport's only regular season crown - the Winter Dew Cup - and a $1.5 million prize purse. NBC Sports' live coverage of Freeski Superpipe airs Saturday at 4:30 p.m. ET, and coverage of Snowboard Slopestyle airs at 4 p.m. ET on Sunday. USA Network will air late-night coverage of Snowboard Superpipe Saturday at midnight ET and Snowboard Slopestyle Sunday, at 2 a.m. ET.
Each event features competitions in snowboard superpipe and slopestyle, as well as freeski slopestyle and superpipe. The Tour concludes next month with the Toyota Championships at Snowbasin Resort in Ogden, Utah where the overall points leader in each discipline will be crowned year-end champions and awarded the coveted Dew Cup.
NBC's Todd Harris hosts the action with Luke Van Valin (play-by-play), Todd Richards (analyst) and Tiffany Simons (reporter) from Killington.
Vancouver Olympian Louie Vito leads the men’s snowboard superpipe competition by eight points after his first place finish last month in Breckenridge, but is closely trailed by Matt Ladley. Olympian Elena Hight sits in a close second place to Queralt Castellet in the women’s snowboard superpipe competition.
More than 150 of the top winter action sports athletes in the world will return for the third season of the Winter Dew Tour to compete for the highly coveted Dew Cup. Last year’s 2009-10 Dew Cup champions include JJ Thomas (men’s snowboard superpipe), Kaitlyn Farrington (women’s snowboard superpipe), Sage Kotsenburg (men’s snowboard slopestyle), Jamie Anderson (women’s snowboard slopestyle), Jossi Wells (freeski superpipe) and Andreas Hatveit (freeski slopestyle).
Upcoming Winter Dew Tour Events on NBC Sports:
Toyota Championship, Snowbasin, Ogden, Utah, Feb. 10-13, 2011
For more information contact:
Lindsay Fitz
NBC Sports
t:212-664-2014
e:lindsay.fitz@nbcuni.com
About NBC Sports
NBC Sports is synonymous with superior production that elevates the event, broad promotion, and mutually-beneficial partnerships. Known as America’s Olympic Network, NBC has broadcast 12 Olympic Games, more than any other network. Its ability to amass large audiences with broad promotion, particularly for the Olympics, has resulted in NBC Sports broadcasting nine of the top 10 most-watched events in U.S. television history, including the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games which stands at No. 1 all time with 215 million viewers. In 2009, NBC Sports won the prestigious Peabody Award for its production of the Beijing Games and was named ‘Best in Sports Television’ at the Sports Business Awards.
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Name: Lindsay Fitz
Organization: NBC Sports
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Phone: 212-664-2014
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