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NBC Sports Announcers Won't Travel To Beijing For Winter Games
As the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games approach and COVID-19 worries mount, NBC Sports won't send any of its declaring groups to China, a representative told USA TODAY Sports. 온라인카지노

"The declare groups for these Olympics, including figure skating, will call occasions from our Stamford (Connecticut) office because of COVID concerns," Greg Hughes, senior VP interchanges, NBC Sports, said in a telephone meet.

"We'll in any case have an enormous presence on the ground in Beijing and our inclusion of all that will be top notch to no one's surprise, yet our arrangements are developing continuously as they are for most media organizations covering the Olympics."

NBC's communicating groups for figure skating, Alpine skiing and snowboarding had been relied upon to be in Beijing, yet those plans have been dropped.

The organization's Olympic host, Mike Tirico, will in any case be in China for the Feb. 4 opening service and the initial not many days of the Games, yet will then, at that point, leave for Los Angeles to have the Feb. 13 Super Bowl, which likewise is on NBC this year.

A large number of the declare groups for the different Winter Olympic games were at that point planned to be situated in Stamford. NBC utilized a comparable technique for its inclusion of the Tokyo Summer Olympics in July-August 2021, albeit a portion of the telecom teams were nearby for the most famous games, including swimming and acrobatic.

That obviously was a long time before the omicron variation started seething all over the planet, making expanding worries that anybody going to Beijing, from the competitors of the world to certify individuals from the media, could test positive while at the Games and need to go through days and even a long time in isolation.

"The Beijing model will be basically the same as Tokyo in that the heartbeat of our Olympic activity will really be in Stamford, Connecticut, at our NBC Sports base camp. We'll have more staff there than in the host city," said Molly Solomon, president and chief maker, NBC Olympics Production.

"With COVID's changing conditions and China's zero-resistance strategy, it's simply added a layer of intricacy to all of this so we really want to ensure we can give similar quality experience to the American watchers. That is the reason we are parted between the two urban communities."

"I think they were somewhat attentive that assuming somebody tried positive for COVID, the Chinese government essentially takes you and sequesters you," he said. "NBC has no control, so they needed to have more command over the circumstance."

As a pragmatic matter, Richards said, the move has little impact on his work, and that of in depth commentator Todd Harris, since they are not normally close enough to the course to call the activity in any event, when they are nearby. Due to COVID-related standards, all media should avoid the competitors.

"At all the Olympics at any rate, we're simply gazing at a PC screen," he said.

Richards said the live ability working from the United States will keep a "vampire plan" as they stay on the timetable for the Games in Beijing, which is 13 hours in front of the East Coast.

"We're looking at snowboarding, and I couldn't care less," Richards said. "However long we can watch the best snowboarding ever, I couldn't care less assuming that I'm sitting in a studio at 2 AM. I'm actually going to be comparably energized."