EXCLUSIVE: NBC has revealed the hosts for its coverage of Sunday’s Closing Ceremony of the Beijing Olympics — and two of them have been in the news this week.Figure skating announcers Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir will be joined by Terry Gannon for the call from the Chinese capital.
The trio also handled announcing duties for the Closing Ceremony of the Tokyo Summer Olympics last year and for the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea.Lipinski and Weir went viral this week with their call of Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva’s short program, during which she fell and ended up placing fourth after being allowed to compete despite a positive drug test.
Gannon also was part of the announcing team that night.The Closing Ceremony of the XXIV Olympic Winter Games will air live at 4 a.m.
PT/7 a.m. ET from Beijing, where it starts at 8 p.m. local time.Social media was abuzz this week after 15-year-old gold medal favorite Valieva fell multiple times during her skate.
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