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U.S. overnight coverage includes women’s figure skating and the men’s big air final.

The U.S. broadcast coverage of the 2022 Winter Games continues on Tuesday with medal events in snowboarding and speedskating, as well as the start of the women’s figure skating competition. All times are Eastern.

FIGURE SKATING The women’s figure skating competition kicks off at 5 a.m. on NBC with the short program. All eyes will be on Kamila Valieva of Russia, who came into the Olympics as the clear favorite but will compete under the cloud of a positive drug test. Her teammates Alexandra Trusova and Anna Shcherbakova will skate as well, alongside the Americans Mariah Bell, Karen Chen and Alysa Liu.

SNOWBOARDING Medals will be awarded in the men’s big air final, airing live at midnight on NBC. Contenders for the podium include Max Parrot of Canada, who won the gold medal in slopestyle last week; Red Gerard of the United States; Takeru Otsuka and Hiroaki Kunitake of Japan; and Su Yiming of China.

SPEEDSKATING The men’s and women’s team pursuit will air at 1:35 a.m. on USA Network, starting with the semifinals and then moving straight to the finals.

NORDIC COMBINED The men’s individual event, which will air on NBC, starts at 3 a.m. with the large hill ski-jumping competition and continues at 5:30 a.m. with the 10-kilometer cross-country race; USA Network will also have coverage at 11 a.m. The American competitors include Taylor Fletcher, Jasper Good, Ben Loomis and Jared Shumate.

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