POSTED: Wednesday February 9th 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
WINTER DEW TOUR TOYOTA CHAMPIONSHIPS THIS WEEKEND ON NBC & USA
Winter Dew Cup & $1.5 Million Prize Purse On the Line
NEW YORK - February 9, 2011 - NBC Sports presents live coverage of the Winter Dew Tour Toyota Championships from Snowbasin Resort in Ogden, Utah, the final event 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, which will be awarded to the points leaders in each discipline this weekend. NBC Sports' live coverage of Freeski Superpipe airs Saturday at 2 p.m. ET, and live coverage of Snowboard Slopestyle airs at 3 p.m. ET on Sunday. USA Network will air late-night coverage of Snowboard Superpipe Saturday at midnight ET and Freeski Slopestyle Sunday, at 2 a.m. ET.
NBC's Todd Harris hosts the action with Luke Van Valin (play-by-play), Todd Richards (analyst) and Tiffany Simons (reporter) from Snowbasin.
The freeski superpipe competition is a tie for first place between American Simon Dumont, who is looking for his first-ever Dew Cup, and Frenchman Kevin Rolland who is coming off a strong victory at the recent X Games.
Norwegian Torstein Horgmo won the first two stops in the snowboard slopestyle competition, but the rising Canadian star, Mark McMorris, hopes to steal the Dew Cup from the veteran competitor.
In the snowboard superpipe competition, Olympian Louie Vito captured the first two stops of the Tour and is in the driver’s seat to claim his first Dew Cup. Spanish Olympian Queralt Castellat has the points lead, but two American Olympians, Kelly Clark and Elena Hight, hope to catch her in Snowbasin in the women’s competition.
More than 150 of the top winter action sports athletes in the world returned 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).
FIS SKIING FREESTYLE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, SATURDAY, 1 PM ET, SUNDAY 12 PM ET
NBC Sports presents taped coverage of the FIS Alpine World Championships this Saturday at 1 p.m. ET and Sunday at 12 p.m. from Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
The FIS Alpine World Championships feature Olympic-caliber world skiers vying for titles in six events including: Super G, Super Combined, Team, Downhill, Giant Slalom and Slalom. Competitors include 2010 Olympic gold medalist and U.S. record holder of most FIS World Cup wins with 33 overall, Lindsey Vonn, 2010 Olympic gold medalist with five Olympic medals in total and four-time FIS World champion Bode Miller as well as 2006 Olympic gold medalist and two-time FIS World Cup champion Ted Ligety, among others.
Tim Ryan, Todd Brooker, Christin Cooper and Steve Porino provide commentary.
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.
NBC Sports partners with numerous leagues and governing bodies to broadcast some of the most prestigious properties in sports, including: ‘NBC Sunday Night Football,’ which is the premier primetime NFL game of the week; ‘Football Night in America,’ which is the most-watched NFL studio program; Notre Dame football; the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes; the U.S. Open Championship, THE PLAYERS Championship, and the Ryder Cup; the NHL Winter Classic, NHL ‘Game of the Week,’ and NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs and Final; and Wimbledon and the French Open.
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Name: Lindsay Fitz
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