18 Athletes Will Compete for Team USA in First Day of 2014 Winter Paralympics

It’s been a few weeks since the Olympics but things are ready to ramp back up in Sochi with competition beginning on Saturday. The US will see their teams get underway in wheelchair curling and in sledge hockey. They will also have 18 other athletes competing individually in nine events that are either downhill skiing or biathlon.

Things get started at 12:30 AM ET with wheelchair curling vs. Slovakia and the last event to start will be the sledge hockey game against Italy at 7:30 AM ET.

Broadcast Information:

TeamUSA.org will have live streaming of likely all of the events Saturday while NBCSN will cover the downhill live from 1-5 AM ET Saturday and show a daily coverage show from 5:30-8:30 PM ET.

Schedule:

  • March 8th
    • 12:30 AM ET – Wheelchair Curling – Round Robin – USA vs. Slovakia
    • 1 AM ET – Women’s Alpine Skiing – Downhill – Visually Impaired
      • Danelle Umstead
    • 1 AM ET – Women’s Biathlon – 6km – Sitting
      • Oksana Masters
    • 1:15 AM ET – Women’s Alpine Skiing – Downhill – Standing
      • Allison Jones
    • 1:25 AM ET – Men’s Biathlon – 7.5km – Sitting
      • Andrew Soule
      • Daniel Cnossen
      • Sean Halsted
      • Jeremy Wagner
      • Travis Dodson
      • Aaron Pike
    • 1:35 AM ET – Women’s Alpine Skiing – Downhill – Sitting
      • Alana Nichols
      • Laurie Stephens
    • 1:40 AM ET – Men’s Alpine Skiing – Downhill – Visually Impaired
      • Mark Bathum
    • 2:50 AM ET – Men’s Alpine Skiing – Downhill – Sitting
      • Christopher Devlin-Young
      • Tyler Walker
      • Jasmin Bambur
    • 3:15 AM ET – Men’s Biathlon – 7.5km – Standing
      • Omar Bermejo
    • 4:44 AM ET – Men’s Biathlon – 7.5km – Visually Impaired
      • Kevin Burton
      • Jacob Adicoff
    • 6:30 AM ET – Wheelchair Curling – Round Robin – USA vs. South Korea
    • 7:30 AM ET – Ice Sledge Hockey – Group Round – Group B – USA vs. Italy

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