8/3- What To Watch For Saturday at the Olympics
By: Phil Schoener
Updated: August 4, 2012
Selenski and Puzo's U.S. Field Hockey team are currently in fifth place heading into Saturday's game with New Zealand 2pm LIVE on NBC Sports Network.
Team USA didn't capitalize against
Australia dropping the match 1-0. With the loss the US falls to 1-and-2 in Group
B play with two games remaining. The team needs to be in one of the top two
spots in the six team pool in order to advance to the semfinals.
What to Watch for On Saturday:
LONDON - August 3, 2012 - Michael Phelps, the most-decorated Olympian of all time with 20 medals, swims for his final gold medal of the London Olympics Saturday night in the 4x100 medley relay. Phelps will swim the butterfly leg. Missy Franklin is expected to anchor the women's 4x100 medley relay in the freestyle leg. Also in primetime, reigning world champion Carmelita Jeter is expected to sprint for the gold in the women's 100m on the track tomorrow night.
SPECIAL PROGRAMMING NOTE: NBC'S DAYTIME SATURDAY AND SUNDAY COVERAGE LIVE TO ALL TIME ZONES
This weekend's daytime coverage on NBC will be LIVE across the country featuring the two gold medal tennis finals.
On Saturday, coverage starts at 9 a.m. ET/8 a.m. CT/7 a.m. MT/6 a.m. PT, and features Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova playing for Olympic gold at Wimbledon. Also featured in Saturday's live daytime show is Team USA's men's volleyball vs. Russia live at 11:45 a.m. ET. Then, at 2:40 p.m. ET, Team USA's men's water polo, the number one ranked seed in their group, faces the number two ranked seed, Serbia live on NBC. At 4:15 p.m. ET, NBC airs live coverage of the men's 10,000m gold medal final from the track, and then from her Majesty's Horse Guards Parade, Team USA's Jake Gibb and Sean Rosenthal take on Kostantin Semenov and Sergey Prokopyev of Russia in a beach volleyball round of 16 match live at 5 p.m. ET.
On Sunday, live coverage starts at 6 a.m. ET/5 a.m. CT/4 a.m. MT/3 a.m. PT, and features Great Britain's Andy Murray facing off against Wimbledon champion Roger Federer in a rematch at Centre Court. Federer defeated Murray in July to capture his record-tying seventh Wimbledon title.
Live on NBC Sports Network on Saturday, Team USA's men's basketball returns to the court to play Lithuania after setting an Olympic record high score with 156 points.
All of the events mentioned above, and all other events will be live streamed on NBCOlympics.com and the NBC Olympics Live Extra app, available on mobile devices and tablets. The vast majority of live stream content will only be available to authenticated cable, satellite or telco customers.
For more information on live streaming, please go to: NBCOlympics.com/LiveExtra
For the full schedule of NBCUniversal's Olympic coverage, please go to: NBCOlympics.com
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Listings subject to change (all times ET unless otherwise noted). Changes are italicized.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 4 (Day 8)
NBC
9 a.m. - 6 p.m. ET
8 a.m. - 5 p.m. CT
7 a.m. - 4 p.m. MT
6 a.m. - 3 p.m. PT
Women's Tennis - Singles Gold Medal Final: Serena Williams (U.S.) vs. Maria Sharapova (Russia) (LIVE)
Men's Beach Volleyball - Gibb/Rosenthal (U.S.) vs. Semenov/Prokoplev (Russia) (LIVE)
Track and Field -
Men's 10,000M Gold Medal Final (LIVE)
Qualifying Rounds
Men's Volleyball - U.S. vs. Russia (LIVE)
Men's Water Polo - U.S. vs. Serbia (LIVE)
Cycling - Track Gold Medal Final
Rowing - Gold Medal Finals
Women's Gymnastics - Trampoline Gold Medal Final
LIVE coverage of the men's 10,000m track and field final. Somalian-born Londoner Mo Farah, who now trains in Portland under U.S. distance legend Alberto Salazar and alongside Galen Rupp, will attempt to win Great Britain's first ever gold medal in this event. Among Farah's competition will be Rupp, his friend and training partner who holds the American record in the event. Plus, key qualifying rounds in track and field, including the men's 400m, where South Africa's Oscar Pistorius, a double amputee, seeks a berth in the semifinal round.
LIVE coverage of the women's tennis final from the prestigious grass courts of Wimbledon.
LIVE coverage of the U.S. men's volleyball team against Russia. The American men won their first Olympic gold in 20 years in Beijing and have been surging recently as they look to repeat as Olympic champions.
LIVE coverage of the U.S. men's water polo team against perennial power Serbia. The U.S. men earned a surprise silver in Beijing, but are focused on gold in London. Led by captain Tony Azevedo, the team sacrificed hundreds of thousands of dollars collectively by not playing professionally overseas this year to train together for the Olympics.
Plus, gold medal finals in track cycling, rowing and the women's trampoline final in gymnastics.
8 p.m. - Midnight (ET/PT)
Swimming - Gold Medal Finals
Men's and Women's 4 x 100M Medley Relays
Women's 50M Freestyle
Track and Field - Gold Medal Finals
Men's Long Jump
Women's 100M
Beach Volleyball - May-Treanor/Walsh Jennings (U.S.) vs. Van Iersel/Kelzer (Netherlands)
Women's Diving - Springboard Semifinals
On the last night of swimming, Michael Phelps is back in the pool for the final time, leading Team USA in the medley relay, which the Americans have won every time they've raced. Phelps will swim

