Olympics on TNT commentators

The following is a list of commentators to be featured in American cable television channel TNT's coverage of the Olympic Games. For the 1992^[1], 1994^[2], and 1998 Winter Olympic Games^[3], TNT supplemented CBS' Olympics coverage in the United States.

1992 Winter Olympics

In November 1986, Fred Hickman returned to TBS to serve as a co-anchor with Nick Charles for Sports Tonight on CNN. He remained with CNN until September 2001, and while there served as host for both the NBA and NFL pre-game and post-game shows, a commentator on the Atlanta Hawks, and a co-host of the Olympic Winter Games in Albertville, France in 1992, the Olympic Winter Games in Lillehammer, Norway in 1994, and the 1994 Goodwill Games in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Bill Clement has broadcast five different Olympic Games and has worked for ESPN, NBC, ABC, Versus, Comcast SportsNet and TNT in the U.S., and CTV, CBC, Rogers Sportsnet and Sirius XM Radio in Canada. He worked with Jim Lampley as a studio analyst for NBC during their coverage of both the men's and women's ice hockey tournaments at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. He worked as the play-by-play announcer for table tennis, pentathlon events, and badminton tournaments for the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics for NBC.

Craig Sager called Nordic skiing and curling for TNT's coverage of the 1992 Winter Olympics. He was also the men's and women's basketball reporter for NBC's Olympic coverage since the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. And he served as a reporter for NBC Sports' coverage of basketball at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.^[15][16][17]

1994 Winter Olympics

Joe Micheletti worked the 1994 Winter Olympics with Jiggs McDonald for TNT and also worked the 1998 Winter Olympics for CBS. During his time with NBC Sports, he covered hockey at the 2002, 2006, and 2010 Winter Olympics, paired with Kenny Albert.^[30]

1998 Winter Olympics

Jim Lampley covered a record 14 Olympic Games on U.S. television, most recently the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. In 1998, he covered the Nagano Olympics and the Goodwill Games for Turner, and in 2000, he covered the Sydney Olympics, again for NBC.

In 2004, Lampley was the daytime anchor for NBC's Olympics coverage for the 2004 Summer Olympics, as well as anchoring the USA Network's coverage of the Games. In 2006, Lampley served as a central correspondent for the 2006 Winter Olympics which aired on the networks of NBC Universal. Torino 2006 was the 13th Olympics Lampley covered, surpassing the record set by America's original voice of the Olympics, Jim McKay. Lampley was again called upon to anchor for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, Lampley's 14th Games. The 2010 Winter Olympics was the first time since the 1980 Summer Olympics that he didn't cover. Al Michaels served as the daytime host of the 2010 Olympics on NBC. Lampley also did not cover the 2012 Summer Olympics either in which Michaels also served as the daytime host.

Mike Emrick has worked five Olympic Games for NBC. He has also worked during the Olympics, twice for CBS and once for TNT. For NBC, he called water polo in the 2004 and 2012 Summer Olympics, and men's and women's ice hockey at the 2006, 2010 and the 2014 Winter Olympics alongside Eddie Olczyk and "Inside-the-Glass" reporter Pierre McGuire.^[51][52]

Peter McNab was also a TV announcer on NBC as an analyst on NHL on NBC^[53] during the 2006 Winter Olympic games in Turin, Italy, and as a color analyst on TNT for the Olympic games in Nagano, Japan. He also served as TSN's studio analyst and host for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah.

During the 1998 Nagano Winter Games, Digit Murphy worked as a broadcaster, becoming the first American female color analyst for a women's hockey game broadcast on television.

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