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While most of the problems and criticisms of NBC's 2018 Olympic coverage to this point have been either due to NBC's traditional over-production of their Olympic broadcasts and considerable use of tape-delay, as well as some things that were largely out of NBC's control, such as multiple alpine skiing postponements due to high winds, NBC managed to pull off an embarassing, disgraceful, and Olympic-sized Heidi moment last night, nearly half a decade after the Heidi moment . However, unlike the Heidi moment, which, to my knowledge, did not feature anyone at NBC prematurely declaring a winner in that infamous 1968 gridiron football game, NBC originally declared the wrong person the winner in the women's super-G in Pyeongchang. After a relatively major on-course error cost American Lindsey Vonn any chance of a medal in the super-G, Austrian Anna Vieth posted a very fast time among those that NBC considered to be medal contenders, and Vieth was the leader when NBC cut ...

For the first time in the Winter Olympics, there will be a mixed team event in alpine skiing. The mixed team event is considerably different than traditional alpine skiing events, as, in the mixed team event, there are two competitors on course at any one time instead of just one competitor on course, and the competition format is that of an elimination tournament. A total of 16 countries will compete in the mixed team event, with each country entering a four-skier team consisting of two male skiers and two female skiers; each team is also able to enter an alternate skier of each gender who can replace a skier of the same gender. The Olympic format for mixed team alpine skiing will be a single-elimination tournament, with the final match, called the big final, being contested for the gold and silver medals, although the losers of the semifinal matches will compete in the small final for the bronze medal. Each team is seeded based on a ranking system by the FIS, which is the IOC-appro...