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Lindsey Vonn Dog Show ‘The Pack’ on Amazon Nov. 20

michael.malone@futurenet.com (Michael Malone) — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 21:23:42 +0000

The Pack, a competition series hosted by Lindsey Vonn and her dog Lucy, starts on Amazon Prime Nov. 20. The show features 12 teams of humans and dogs “on an epic adventure across multiple continents,” according to Amazon Prime.

There are 10 episodes.

The winning team gets $750,000, with $500,000 for them and the rest for the animal charity of their choice. Amazon said the teams will have to depend on their understanding of one another’s strengths and weaknesses and prove their strong bond.

Vonn has won four World Cup overall skiing championships. She also won a gold medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Lucy is a Cavalier King Charles spaniel.

The other dogs on the show include an Old Bluetick Coonhound, a Wire Haired Rat Terrier and a Schnoodle (Schnauzer-Poodle).

The Pack is produced by Amazon Studios and Renegade 83, an Entertainment One company. Jay Bienstock with Jay Renfroe and David Garfinkle of Renegade 83 are executive producers.

HBO Sets Lindsey Vonn Documentary

thomas.umstead@futurenet.com (R. Thomas Umstead) — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 21:05:33 +0000

HBO will follow the final competitive campaign of champion skier Lindsey Vonn as part of a new documentary, Lindsey Vonn: The Final Season, debuting Nov. 26.

Lindsey Vonn (Image credit: HBO)

The documentary chronicles the iconic skier’s final months as a competitive skier -- including her final event at the World Championships in Sweden this past February in which she earned a bronze medal -- while looking back on her career from child prodigy to decorated Olympian to global superstar, according to network officials.

“Lindsey Vonn is a global icon of transformative force,” said HBO Sports executive vice president,Peter Nelson in a statement. “No skier, woman or man, has ever exerted her influence in sport and culture – ever transcended to her stature. There are a lot of athlete documentaries today, but this film, at once heartbreaking and inspiring, takes us places unseen with an elite athlete like Lindsey, revealing the sacrifice demanded of a champion confronting her human limits to end an unparalleled career.”

Universal Sports To Stream Alpine Ski World Cup Circuit

Mike Reynolds — Sun, 19 Oct 2014 17:45:00 +0000

Officially, winter is still a couple of months away, but the 2014-15 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup season starts next weekend, and Universal Sports will be along for many of the twists, turns, jumps, bumps and crashes.

Beginning with the action from Soelden, Austria on Oct. 25 and 26, the Olympic-style sports proponent will cover 65 events, encompassing 100 linear TV hours and more than 250 streaming ones to authenticated users over the course of the season that will culminate with the World Cup finals from Meribel, France in early March.

A venture between NBC Sports Group and Leo Hindery's InterMedia Partners, Universal Sports counts DirecTV, Dish, Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks, Cox Communications, Verizon FiOS, CenturyLink Prism, Google Fiber and numerous regional cable and IPTV operators, among its affiliate base.

Universal Sports' schedule is also highlighted by the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships slated for Vail-Beaver Creek this February, ramping up the pressure on the U.S. ski team to perform well at home. The 2014-15 season will see Austria’s Marcel Hirscher and Anna Fenninger defending their overall World Cup titles against veterans Askel Lund Svindel from Switzerland, the U.S.'s Ted Ligety and Slovenia's Tina Maze, in what could be her final season, alongside the next generation of skiers including Norway’s Henrik Kristoffersen and America's rising star, Mikaela Shiffrin.

Meanwhile, former skiing cynosureLindsey Vonn is working on her comeback following major knee surgery last January that sidelined her from competing in the Sochi Olympics. Vonn hopes to be race-ready by the Lake Louise World Cup speed races from Dec. 5-7 which will air live on Universal Sports. Already the most decorated American skier in history, Vonn has 59 World Cup race victories and she nees just three more to surpass Austrian legend. Annemarie Moser-Pröll.

Presented by Longines, Universal Sports’ broadcast coverage of the 2014-15 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup will feature the veteran play-by-play announcer Steve Porino and analyst Doug Lewis. This year’s telecasts will also sport the newly-designed Audi Race Room, where the analysts give viewers an insider’s look at the elite competition by breaking down the techniques and technologies behind individual performances.

“2015 was supposed to be a curtain call for two of the sport’s biggest stars, Bode Miller and Lindsey Vonn, but Miller, Vonn and Julia Mancuso have more in them and are all back,” Porino said. “I predict that we’re also going to watch Mikaela Shiffrin bud from best slalom skier in the world to one of the best skiers, period. And Ted Ligety will continue to cement his legend as one of the greatest giant slalom skiers to have ever lived by adding another World Championship title.”

As for the internationals, Porino said "fans need to tune in to watch the male version of Shiffrin in 20-year-old Norwegian Henrik Kristoffersen, who is the youngest male Olympic alpine medalist ever. He’s as impressive as three-time overall World Cup winner Marcel Hirscher, who at 25 is the atypical Austrian: slight in stature, big on personality, and he still calls his dad from the starting gate. It’s hard to imagine who will stand in his way this season.”

Live TV coverage of the 2014-15 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup begins Saturday, Oct. 25, at 6:30 a.m. (ET) with the women’s giant slalom from Soelden, Austria, and continues with the men’s giant slalom the following day at 7:30 a.m. Live streaming begins at 3:30 a.m. on both days.

Check out Universal Sports' Alpine Ski World Cup schedule here.