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NBC Won't Send Sports Announcing Teams To 2022 Winter Olympics In Beijing Due To COVID-19
The Winter Olympics will appear to be unique this year with severe COVID-19 rules set up as China fights an omicron episode. USA TODAY 토토사이트 검증

As the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games approach and COVID-19 worries mount, NBC Sports won't send any of its reporting groups to China, a representative told USA TODAY Sports Wednesday evening.

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

"We'll in any case have a huge presence on the ground in Beijing and our inclusion of all that will be top notch to no one's surprise, however our arrangements are developing constantly 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, however will then, at that point, leave for Los Angeles to have the Feb. 13 Super Bowl, which likewise is on NBC this year.

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

A lady wearing a facial covering to ensure against COVID-19 stands close to figures of the Paralympic and Olympic mascots in Beijing, Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022.
A lady wearing a facial covering to secure against COVID-19 stands close to figures of the Paralympic and Olympic mascots in Beijing, Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022. (Photograph: The Associated Press)

That obviously was a long time before the omicron variation started seething all over the planet, making expanding worries that anybody heading out 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, Conn., at our NBC Sports central command. We'll have more work force there than in the host city," said Molly Solomon, president and leader maker, NBC Olympics Production.

"With COVID's changing conditions and China's zero-resilience 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."

Snowboarding examiner Todd Richards told USA TODAY Sports that NBC shifted direction this week over worries about COVID-related limitations.

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

As a functional matter, Richards said, the move has little impact on his work, and that of in depth commentator Todd Harris, since they are not generally close enough to the course to call the activity in any event, when they are nearby. Due to COVID-related principles, 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 don't have the slightest care about," Richards said. "However long we can watch the best snowboarding ever, I couldn't care less in the event that I'm sitting in a studio at 2 AM. I'm actually going to be similarly as invigorated."