The roster includes Olympians who have won a combined total of 59 Olympic medals (25 gold, 21 silver, and 13 bronze).The overall talent lineup features the return of many of the network’s signature Olympic hosts, play-by-play commentators and analysts with Olympic experience. NBC Sports Group presents expanded coverage of the Rio Games, including golf returning to the Olympics for the first time since 1904. More than 40 members of the team will be making their NBC Olympics debuts, led by Golf Channel’s David Feherty. Matt Lauer, co-anchor of TODAY, Meredith Vieira, special correspondent for TODAY, and Hoda Kotb, co-host of the fourth hour of TODAY, will host the Opening Ceremony. The Opening Ceremony of the 2016 Rio Olympics is one month from today – Friday, August 5 on NBC. One of the most memorable events I've commentated on would be the Rome World Championships, where 43 world records were broken! It was like the swimmers has superpowers - It was race after race! There were amazing times, but some records would only last three minutes before being broken again.Bob Costas leads a record 170 NBC Olympics commentators (which includes those to be announced in the coming weeks) – the most ever for an Olympics – as NBCUniversal presents coverage of the Games of the XXXI Olympiad from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil across NBC, NBCSN, Bravo, CNBC, Golf Channel, MSNBC, USA Network, TELEMUNDO, NBC UNIVERSO, the NBC Sports app, and. I enjoy covering the 1500 meters, people assume that longer races are less exciting than our sprint-equivalents, but having more depth in the field leads to great racing However, sometimes the touch or half touch of the glide by the athletes can surprise you, it looks like they are going to win, but in the end, they get beaten because of the touch. You can often get a feel of who is in front by a fraction. The short distance makes for exciting finishes, for example, we had 0.16 seconds separating the top six in one race. The most challenging is the 50 meters freestyle. What has been your favourite competition to commentate so far, and the most challenging one? You try to draw on as much as you can but the most important information is always the most recent event and where the swimmers are at the current stage of their career. I prepare for the competitions with lots of research of previous events, I have a spreadsheet listing results of recent events: the FINA World Short Course Championships, Olympic Games, FINA World Championships, Continental Championships and other more. How do you prepare for your commentary before a competition? Other sports can be understood more intuitively, you know if somebody has made a bad shot in golf for example, but I feel swimming is more nuanced and I enjoy bridging the gap between newer and established viewers. Statistics in terms of the splits, records and other information help make casual fans feel more closely involved. People who don’t swim themselves see the races differently, they might not know why one person is good and why another is less good. Well, swimming is important because you need to know the statistics of swimming to create a lot of interest. How has swimming changed throughout the years from the commentator’s perspective? That was a different time and you had to rely on magazines and newspapers, meaning I had a lot more preparation to do for each event – especially since I was the only FINA commentator then across all the sports. We were not able to pick up our mobile phones and get the latest information. But it was particularly hard to work back in 2001 when we did not have the same level of internet strength that we do now. It is a great honour to be the voice of the Championships, and I did not think it would last this long when it all started back in Fukuoka in 2001. How has swimming changed in this time and how does it feel to be the voice of the Championships? Budapest 2022 marks the 21st anniversary of your relationship with the FINA World Championships.

In addition to over two decades of calling events for FINA, McCann has commentated on eight Summer Olympic Games, Winter Olympic Games, Paralympics, and other major international events, including football, cycling and athletics throughout 34 countries. In Budapest, McCann is the lead broadcast commentator for the swimming and diving competitions.

Female olympic diving commentator