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Your full 16-day guide to the Winter Olympics

Your full 16-day guide to the Winter Olympics

Meet Team RT, our experts guiding you through the Games — and see their daily picks of the action

Week 6 Winter Olympics Guide Daniel Tschofenig (Day 8)

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Montell Douglas
The first British woman to compete at both the Summer and Winter Olympics (in the 100m and bobsleigh respectively), Douglas is now best known for wielding a pugil stick as Fire in Gladiators.

Robin Cousins
Winning Team GB’s only gold medal at the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid for his unforgettable performance in men’s singles figure skating, Cousins has been a staple on stage and screen ever since.

Vicky Wright
The vice-skip of GB’s gold medal-winning women’s curling team in Beijing in 2022, Wright retired after an astonishing performance against Japan in the final where she threw with 94 per cent accuracy.

Amy Williams
Williams’s triumph in the skeleton in 2010 was Team GB’s first individual Winter Olympics gold for 30 years, paving the way for Lizzy Yarnold and a hugely successful era for British skeleton.

Wilf O’Reilly
After winning two golds in a demonstration event for short-track speed skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics, O’Reilly became overall world champion in 1991 and now coaches the Dutch short-track team.

Lamin Deen
A former Grenadier Guardsman, Deen competed in both the two-man and four-man bobsleigh at the 2014 Games in Sochi and the four-man event at Pyeongchang in 2018 before retiring in 2022.

Kent Simpson
Canadian ice hockey winger Simpson will be commentating on his third Winter Olympics for the BBC, having memorably steered the Sheffield Steelers to a Grand Slam of ISL trophies back in 2001.

Aimee Fuller
In 2013, the slopestyle snowboarder became the first woman to land a double backflip in competition at the X Games in Tignes. She later represented Team GB at the 2014 and 2018 Winter Olympics.

Ed Leigh
A former professional snowboarder and long-time presenter of winter sports coverage, Leigh has been covering events at the Winter Olympics park and pipe for 20 years and has co-presented Ski Sunday since 2007.

Chemmy Alcott
Alcott skied for Team GB across four different Winter Olympics and all five Alpine skiing disciplines between 2002 and 2014, before joining the BBC’s commentary team in 2018.

How to Watch the Winter Olympics

On the BBC Live daily coverage and highlights between 9am and 10pm, split between BBC One and BBC Two.

On BBC iPlayer and BBC Sport

BBC Olympics Extra has a live digital stream from 8am to 11pm every day, with guides, explainers, live text and on-demand clips on the BBC Sport website and app.

On TNT Sports

Live daily coverage and highlights on TNT Sports 2, 3 and 4 from 8am through to 11pm, with highlights and replays through the night. Sky subscribers also get pop-up channels 5—10.

On Discovery+

There are up to 32 live feeds available to all Discovery+ subscribers, including a “multiview” feature for watching events simultaneously.

Elsewhere

EE/BT and Sky customers can watch on TNT Sports via Discovery+, depending on subscription type. Virgin offers two dedicated pop-up channels to Entertainment subscribers, while Sky subscribers can access the Discovery+ Entertainment app free of charge. Vodafone UK, Prime Video and other Smart TV customers can access Discovery+ via subscription (cost dependent on your package).