Winter Olympics Schedule, Day 17: Vancouver 2010 Comes To Its Dramatic End

12 p.m. - 6 p.m. - NBC - After a 6-1 victory over Finland, Ryan Miller and Team USA take on Canada for Hockey gold LIVE in every time zone (3p ET). Plus, the grueling Men’s Cross Country 50km.

7 p.m. - 8 p.m. - NBC - Vancouver Gold - The 21st Winter Olympic Games wind down with a look back at 17 days of action.

Day 16 at the 2010 Winter Olympics is the second to last day of the games, and it’s a busy one, with a total of nine medal events. Men’s curling comes to a close with its bronze medal game at noon; gold is decided live at 6 p.m. ET. Men’s Alpine Skiing also comes to its conclusion with the Slalom, an event the Austrians swept in 2006. In primetime, it’s the Figure Skating Gala, and then later on MSNBC, the Men’s Hockey bronze medal is decided.

12 p.m. - 3 p.m. - USA - Men’s Curling: Bronze Game - A bronze medal is on the line in the penultimate Curling matchup of the Vancouver Games. Sweden takes on Switzerland live.

12 p.m. - 3 p.m. - USA - Women’s Curling Semifinal - Just 10 ends away from the gold medal final, hometown favorite Canada faces Switzerland.

2 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. - CNBC - Women’s Hockey Bronze Medal Game: The first Hockey medal at Vancouver is on the line as Finland faces Sweden in the bronze medal game.

3 p.m. - 5 p.m. - NBC - Men’s Hockey Quarterfinal - With Ryan Miller in net, Team USA continues its quest for Hockey gold against Switzerland LIVE (ET/CT) as the Olympic quarterfinal round takes center ice.

12 p.m. - 3 p.m. - USA - Women’s Curling.

3 p.m. - 5 p.m. - NBC - Torino silver medalist Chad Hedrick looks to return to the podium in Men’s 10,000m Speed Skating (LIVE). Also, Women’s Ski Cross qualifying, medals awarded in Women’s Biathlon 4x6km Relay and America has its best chance ever at a Nordic Combined team medal in the Team/4x5 km - 4x5 km Relay.

3 p.m. - 6 p.m. - USA - Men’s Hockey - With round-robin play out of the way, Olympic Hockey heats up in the elimination round. First up: Switzerland vs. Belarus. Winner gets Team USA.

12 p.m. - 3 p.m. - USA - Men’s Curling.

3 p.m. - 5 p.m. - NBC - Live (ET/CT) from Whistler: semifinal and final round men’s and women’s Cross Country (Men’s and Women’s Team Sprints).

3 p.m. - 6 p.m. - USA - Women’s Hockey - Four-time Olympians Angela Ruggiero and Jenny Potter, lead Team USA into the semifinal round as Hockey continues.

12 p.m. - 3 p.m. - MSNBC - Curling!

12 p.m.- 1:30 p.m. - NBC - Freestyle Skiing - Ski Cross officially debuts as an Olympic sport live (ET/CT) as coverage begins from Whistler.

12 p.m. - 3 p.m. - MSNBC - Curling!

1 p.m.- 2:30 p.m. - NBC - Women’s Freestyle Skiing - American Emily Cook looks to improve on her fourth-place finish in Worlds as Freestyle Skiing Aerials takes center stage from Whistler.

3 p.m.- 5 p.m. - NBC - Chandra Crawford looks for a home field advantage at Whistler as Women’s Cross-Country Skiing’s 15 km Pursuit (7.5 Classic+7.5 Free) airs LIVE.

3 p.m.- 5 p.m. - NBC - Women’s Biathlon - Russia and Sweden have dominated Biathlon so far this season, but now a gold medal is on the line in the women’s 15km. Later, it’s Women’s Snowboarding, where Torino gold medalist Hannah Teter and runner-up Gretchen Bleiler headline women’s Halfpipe qualifying (LIVE).

5:30 p.m.-8 p.m. - MSNBC - Women’s Hockey - Hilary Knight, Julie Chu and Team USA take on Finland as round-robin play continues.

5:30 p.m.-8 p.m. - MSNBC - Women’s Hockey - With a huge home ice advantage, Team Canada takes on Sweden in early-round women’s Hockey action.

5 p.m.-8 p.m. - CNBC - More Curling!

5:30 p.m.-8 p.m. - MSNBC - Women’s Hockey - Angela Ruggiero, Jenny Potter and Team USA lock horns with Russia as Olympic Hockey continues.

8 p.m.-12 a.m. - NBC - Primetime - Individual Figure Skating opens with the Men’s Short Program, aired live, where Russia’s Evgeni Plushenko will begin the defense of his gold medal from 2006. Americans to watch: Evan Lysacek, Jeremy Abbott, and of course, the fabulous Johnny Weir. NBC will also air the medal events of both Women’s Snowboard Cross Final and the Women’s Speed Skating 500m (tape delay).

In Day 4 at the 2010 Winter Olympics, Alpine Skiing finally gets underway after two days of delays (assuming the weather cooperates, of course), with Men’s Downhill and American Bode Miller looking for redemption. In prime time, the Pairs Figure Skating concludes with the Free Skate and Shani Davis skates in the Men’s 500m. Additionally, medals will be won in Men’s Snowboard Cross and Cross-Country Skiing (Ladies’ 10km and Men’s 15km). All times Eastern.

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Complete Day 4 Schedule:

Here are the results from Day 2’s medal rounds. Entering Sunday, the United States leads the Vancouver Winter Olympics with four medals (one gold, one silver, and two bronze). Canada has earned one silver medal.

Ski Jumping - Normal Hill Individual

Gold: Simon Ammann (Switzerland)

Silver: Adam Malysz (Poland)

Bronze: Gregor SChlierenzauer (Austria)

With the slushy conditions pushing back the Alpine Skiing Downhill on Saturday, event organizers are now mulling a schedule that would feature seven races in seven days, according to NBC Sports.

The tentative revised schedule released by the International Ski Federation is as follows:

Of course, the longer the events are postponed, the better for a certain face of American skiing.

Alpine Skiing Men’s Downhill, originally scheduled to go at 2:45 p.m. ET on Saturday, has been postponed because of slushy conditions that have made it “impossible” to ski.

This decision comes just one day after organizers were forced to postpone Sunday’s Women’s Super-Combined.