Watching Jamie Anderson and other Lake Tahoe area athletes compete in Olympics

Just like 2018, the 2022 Winter Olympics are being held halfway across the globe. Many Olympic events will be taking place while most of us are asleep with the 16 hour time difference between Beijing and South Lake Tahoe.

If you want to catch events live instead of the re-air, check out the NBC, Peacock, and USA television schedules. Some events are already underway even though the Opening Ceremony was at 3:30 a.m. Pacific Time on Friday. Those on the West Coast will see the broadcast starting at 5:00 p.m. or 8:00 p.m. Friday, depending on which channel you will be viewing the Olympics on. (See NBC broadcast schedule here).

The region is well represented on the slopes, led by Jamie Anderson in her third Olympics. Anderson is the most decorated woman in the X Games, just wining her 21st medal at Aspen last week where she won silver in both slopestyle and big air (eight gold, nine silver, four bronze).

At Sochi 2014, she won the first-ever Olympic medal awarded in women’s snowboard slopestyle.

At PyeongChang 2018, along with her slopestyle gold, Anderson captured silver in the big air, becoming the first female snowboarder to win two medals at a single Olympic Winter Games.

The 31-year-old Anderson grew up on the slopes of Sierra-at-Tahoe. She announced her engagement to Canadian snowboarder Tyler Nicholson last week.

The times below are when NBC broadcasts start on her events.

Snowboarding - Women's Slopestyle - Qualifying Friday, 2/4 @ 6:45pm PST
Snowboarding - Women's Slopestyle - Final - Saturday, 2/5 @ 5:30pm PST
Women's Big Air - Qualifying - 2/13 @ 5:30 p.m. PST
Women's Big Air - Final - 2/14 @ 5:30 p.m. PST

Other athletes at the 2022 Olympics with connections to the Lake Tahoe area:

Bryce Bennet - Alpine - The 29-year-old was born and raised in Truckee where he still resides. He skis for Team Palisades Tahoe and he competes in Downhill and Super G.

Keely Cashman - Alpine - The 22-year-old was born in Sonora and lives in Strawberry, works at family coffee shop, The Serene Bean, in Pinecrest in the off season. She attends the University of Utah and has been part of the Dodge Ridge Race Team, Bear Valley Ski Team, Team Palisades Tahoe. She competes in Super G, Slalom, Giant Slalom.

Travis Ganong - Alpine - The 33-year-old was born in Truckee and now makes his home at Olympic Valley. He is a graduate of Sierra Nevada University in Incline Village. Downhill and Super G are his events.

Hannah Halvorson - Cross-Country - The 23-year-old was born in Truckee and currently lives in Achorage, Alaska. She is enrolled at Alaska Pacific University with a double major in psychology and business and attended the Sugar Bowl Academy.

AJ Hurt - Alpine - She is a 21-year-old who was born in Truckee and lives in Carnelian Bay. AJ attends Dartmouth College and skis for their team as well as Palisades Tahoe. She competes in Super G, Giant Slalon, Parallel.

Maureen "Mo" Lebel - - Alpine - She was born in Truckee and currently resides in Park City, Utah. She is in pre-nursing and skiing at the University of Utah where she skis for their team and has skiied for Mammoth Mountain. Her mom was an instructor at Northstar. She competes in Downhill and Super G.

Nina O'Brien - Alpine - The 24-year-old was born in San Francisco and currently lives in Denver. She is studying economics and German at Dartmouth College. Nina grew up skiing at Palisades Tahoe but moved to Burke Mountain Academy in Vermont in 8th grade. She competes in Giant Slalom, Super G and Slalom,

JC Schoonmaker - Cross Country - The 21-year-old was born in Truckee but currently lives in Anchorage. JC (James Clinton) was part of the Sugar Bowl Ski Team and Academy. He is pursuing a degree in natural sciences at the University of Alaska Anchorage.

Luke Winters - Alpine - The 24-year-old was born and raised in Gresham, Oregon. He attended the Sugar Bowl Academy. He is a slalom skier.

David Wise - Freeski - The 31-year-old from Reno is a three-time Olympian after winning gold in both the 2014 and 2018 games. The married father of two competes in the freeski half-pipe. He has called the slopes of Lake Tahoe his home since first began skiing at age three, then skiing professionally at age 18.