From a TV angle, it feels as if the Beijing Olympics will end with NBC’s host Mike Tirico calling his inner-Bill Belichick and saying,
“We’re on to Paris.”
That is where the network’s next Olympics, the 2024 Summer Games, will be held and conceivably — fingers crossed — we will have curbed the COVID-19 epidemic worldwide to a point that it will no longer be a supreme narrative.
Notwithstanding it feels as if, for the Beijing Olympics, which are upon us starting this week, NBC will try to get through them as much as exalt concerning them. China’s zero-COVID strategy means there will be no international fans. Meantime, almost all of NBC’s announcers will be working 7,000 miles away, at the network’s Stamford, Conn., headquarters.
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