2014 World Championships: How to Watch
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The 2014 World Figure Skating Championships are held in Saitama, Japan from March 26-30.
LIVE RESULTS, ENTRIES, STARTING ORDERS
SCHEDULE
These times are in Japan Standard Time (UTC+9).
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US Eastern Time
Mar. 26: Pairs’ SP 10:00; Men’s SP 16:00
Mar. 27: Pairs’ FS 11:30; Ladies’ SP 15:55
Mar. 28: Short Dance 10:50; Men’s FS 17:00
Mar. 29: Free Dance 12:30; Ladies’ FS 17:15
Mar. 30: Exhibition 15:00
HOW TO WATCH
Icenetwork will be showing all of the competition live if you are in the US and have a subscription.
If you live in Canada, CBC is streaming the competition live on their website.
The official ISU livestream will show all of the competition live. This stream is blocked in all countries that have bought TV rights to Worlds, ie. North America, most of Europe, and East Asia. But it should work in South America and Australia, so you can use Hola Unblocker or other VPN services to unblock the site. All of the events will be archived on the site for on-demand viewing.
Eurosport and Russia 2 will show most (but not all) of the competition live. There will be numerous free, ungeoblocked streams for these channels that will go up an hour or so before each event starts. Try these websites for streams (just search for “skating” or “figure skating”):
http://www.stopstream.tv/
http://sportlemon.me/
Here is the TV schedule for the aforementioned channels (only live broadcasts indicated). These broadcasts will not show the earlier groups of skaters, only the last two or three.
Eurosport:
Mar. 26: Men’s SP LIVE
Mar. 27: Ladies’ SP LIVE
Mar. 28: Men’s FS LIVE
Mar. 29: Ladies’ FS LIVE
Mar. 30: Exhibition LIVE
Russia 2:
Mar. 26: Pairs’ SP LIVE; Men’s SP LIVE
Mar. 27: Pairs’ FS LIVE; Ladies’ SP LIVE
Mar. 28: Short Dance LIVE; Men’s FS LIVE
Mar. 29: Free Dance LIVE; Ladies’ FS LIVE
There will be various delayed broadcasts on CBC, Fuji, CCTV5, NBC, and a variety of other channels. Check your local TV listings for more information.
Youtube videos of individual performances will be uploaded very quickly, so if you can’t watch the competition live, it will be easy to watch everything later on-demand. Just search for the skaters’ names.