WORLD TRACK & FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS OREGON22 BEGIN THIS WEEK ACROSS NETWORKS & PLATFORMS OF NBCUNIVERSAL

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Monday, July eleventh, 2022

WORLD TRACK & FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS OREGON22 BEGIN THIS WEEK ACROSS NETWORKS & PLATFORMS OF NBCUNIVERSAL

First-Ever Outside World Championships in United States from College of Oregon’s Hayward Area to be Introduced Throughout NBC, Peacock, USA Community and CNBC from July 15-24

Allyson Felix, Sydney McLaughlin, Noah Lyles, Fred Kerley, Erriyon Knighton Headline Workforce USA Athletes Competing in Eugene, Oregon

Seven Hours of Stay Primetime Protection Throughout 4 Weekend Nights to Air on NBC Broadcast Community

Intensive Streaming Protection Throughout Peacock Throughout 10-Day Occasion

STAMFORD, Conn. – July 11, 2022 – The World Monitor & Area Championships Oregon22 start this Friday, July 15, from the College of Oregon’s Hayward Area and will likely be introduced throughout quite a few networks and platforms of NBCUniversal. It is going to be the primary time the out of doors World Championships will likely be held within the U.S. and NBC Sports activities will make the most of NBC, Peacock, USA Community, CNBC, and NBC Sports activities digital platforms to offer complete protection.

In whole, NBC Sports activities will current 43 hours of tv programming, together with 4 nights of stay primetime weekend protection (July 16-17, July 23-24) on the NBC broadcast community, plus in depth streaming protection all through the 10-day championship meet, which concludes on Sunday, July 24.

The world’s largest monitor & area athletes will take part within the meet, which is anticipated to function 37 defending world champions and 37 U.S. Olympic medalists. Headlining the American contingent in Eugene is probably the most adorned monitor & area athlete in World Championships historical past Allyson Felix, Tokyo Olympic 400m hurdles gold medalist and present world document holder Sydney McLaughlin, defending 200m world champion and Tokyo Olympic 200m bronze medalist Noah Lyles, Tokyo Olympic 100m silver medalist Fred Kerley, and 200m under-20 world document holder Erriyon Knighton, amongst a number of different Olympians.

NBC BROADCAST NETWORK

NBC Sports activities will current a document seven primetime hours of World Championships protection throughout 4 weekend nights on NBC, with stay protection totaling 12.5 hours together with afternoon broadcasts.

On Saturday, July 16, and Sunday, July 17, the quickest runners on the planet will face off within the males’s (July 16) and ladies’s (July 17) 100m last stay on NBC, which is anticipated to function Individuals Fred Kerley, Trayvon Bromell, and defending 100m world champion Christian Coleman for the lads in addition to Elaine Thompson-Herah and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica on the ladies’s aspect.

NBC can even air the lads’s shot put last stay on Sunday, July 17. Individuals Ryan Crouser and Joe Kovacs have received the previous two Olympic gold and silver medals, respectively.

Throughout the second weekend of competitors, a number of relays together with the lads’s and ladies’s 4x100m and 4x400m, will likely be introduced stay on NBC. On the earlier World Championships in 2019, Noah Lyles anchored the U.S. to a world title within the 4x100m. On Sunday, July 24, the ladies’s 800m last will likely be introduced stay on NBC. The American trio of Tokyo Olympic champion Athing Mu, Tokyo Olympic bronze medalist Raevyn Rogers, and 2019 bronze medalist Ajee Wilson are all threats to medal.

NOTE: Primetime protection on NBC will likely be proven in sample, that means stay ET/CT and on delay PT/MT, with some exceptions. Examine native listings. Protection will stream stay throughout the nation on Peacock.

PEACOCK

Peacock will stream all competitors periods from Eugene, together with unique stay primetime protection on Monday, July 18, and Tuesday, July 19.

Peacock will current unique stay protection of the ladies’s 1500m, heptathlon, males’s excessive soar and ladies’s triple soar (July 18) in addition to the lads’s 400m hurdles, which is anticipated to function a showdown between Tokyo Olympic gold medalist Karsten Warholm of Norway and Tokyo Olympic silver medalist American Rai Benjamin, and the lads’s 1500m (July 19).

Peacock will simulstream all stay protection on NBC. So as to present protection of all periods all through the World Championships, Peacock will make the most of world feed commentary of choose competitors. Full simulstreaming of NBC, USA Community and CNBC programming will likely be out there on NBCSports.com and the NBC Sports activities app by way of authentication.

USA NETWORK AND CNBC

USA Community will present protection primarily for competitors periods throughout weekdays in primetime, whereas CNBC may have programming home windows throughout each weekends of the meet. In whole, USA Community and CNBC will current greater than 30 hours of World Championships protection, together with practically 20 primetime hours.

Highlights of USA Community’s protection embody the blended 4x400m relay — the place 13-time world champion Allyson Felix is within the relay pool for the U.S. Felix was a part of the squad that received this occasion in 2019, the primary time it was ever contested at a World Championships (July 15) — the lads’s and ladies’s 200m (July 21), the ladies’s 400m hurdles starring Sydney McLaughlin and Dalilah Muhammad (July 22), and the lads’s and ladies’s 400m (July 22).

Stay in primetime, CNBC will current the semifinals for the ladies’s 100m and males’s 400m hurdles (July 17), heats for the lads’s and ladies’s 4x400m relays (July 23), and the semifinals for the ladies’s 100m hurdles, the place American Tokyo Olympic silver medalist Keni Harrison and Rio Olympic silver medalist and defending 100m hurdles world champion Nia Ali are medal contenders (July 24).

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Final week, it was introduced that Olympians Ato Boldon, Sanya Richards-Ross, Kara Goucher and Trey Hardee will function analysts for NBC Sports activities’ protection of the World Monitor & Area Championships Oregon22 alongside play-by-play voices Leigh Diffey and Paul Swangard, and reporter Lewis Johnson. Click here for extra particulars.

The distinguished meet will likely be held at College of Oregon’s iconic Hayward Area in Eugene, Ore., which re-opened its doorways in 2021 after present process main renovations from 2018-2020 which have cemented its standing as certainly one of monitor & area’s premiere venues for worldwide competitors.

Dubbed “TrackTown USA,” Eugene and the College of Oregon have hosted a number of U.S. and NCAA championship meets and Diamond League competitions, making it solely becoming that it hosts the first-ever out of doors World Championships within the U.S., which was initially scheduled for 2021, however was delayed after the 2020 Tokyo Olympics postponement.

NBC SPORTS’ WORLD TRACK & FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS OREGON22 SCHEDULE (all instances ET except famous):

*Identical Day Delay
Observe: schedule topic to vary

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