NBC continues to announce commentators for the upcoming Summer Olympics in Paris. This week they announce longtime Olympics voices Jimmy Roberts, Mary Carillo and Andrea Joyce will be a part of the coverage.
“Mary, Andrea and Jimmy have provided the compelling reporting and storytelling that is a hallmark of our Olympic presentation. We are thrilled to have them back on our team for Paris,” said Rebecca Chatman, Vice President and Coordinating Producer, NBC Olympics Production in a release.
A 13-time Sports Emmy winner, Roberts will be providing coverage for his 20th Olympic games and his 12th for NBC. Roberts worked his first Olympics as a production assistant for the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics.
“My career in relation to the Olympics has been one ‘pinch me’ moment after another,” Roberts said. “I’ve been fortunate to have seen things I will never forget, iconic things. For me, though, the lasting memory of the Games is about the many remarkable people I’ve met along the way. Athletes, of course, like Dan Jansen, who gets my vote for the most memorable story I’ve covered. Also, it’s the people I’ve had the privilege of working alongside. Not only Hall of Famers like Jim McKay, Bob Costas, and Mike Tirico, but the hundreds of talented and tireless folks on the other side of the camera with whom you become family. It’s really an amazing dynamic.”
Sports Broadcasting Hall of Famer Mary Carillo will be working her 16th Olympics and 13th for NBC. She started her Olympics broadcasting career at the 1992 Albertville Olympics as a skiing reporter for CBS.
“When you cover as many Olympics as I have you inevitably come to think you know how to judge every sport,” Carillo said. “Doesn’t matter that you’ve never tried most of them, especially all those crazy winter events. Doesn’t matter that you only watch them for a few days every four years. Does that stop you from declaring that it was the luger’s blunder on turn 27 that cost him the gold? Hell, no. That the forward lean on that last ski jump was premature? That the fall lines in the Nordic combined must be obeyed! Is it any wonder that by the end of it all when you order coffee you find yourself saying, ‘Triple lutz salchow twizzle. With oat milk.’ It sucks you in, the weeks of the Olympic Games. And if you’re as lucky as I am, every morning you text your two great friends, Andrea and Jimmy. You write, ‘Heading down to breakfast.’ And they come. And it’s gold.”
Andrea Joyce, also a member of the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame, will be working her 17th Olympics and 13th with NBC. She started working the Olympics with ESPN in 1988.
“It’s always so incredible to be surrounded by the passion and determination of the athletes…many of whom train their whole lives in relative obscurity for just one moment in the spotlight,” she said. “Beyond that, I love the spirit of generosity at the games. No matter what is going on in the world, the Olympics makes us all feel like we are part of one community…a constant reminder that we are more alike than we are different. To share that with my co-workers is a true gift. Over the years I was incredibly lucky to witness Simone Biles make history countless times. But my favorite wasn’t a gold medal performance. In Tokyo, after withdrawing from the competition, Simone made a remarkable comeback on the last day for the balance beam final. She won the bronze. Seeing her reaction and the emotion from her teammates was a true Olympic moment. After all her historic accomplishments, Simone told me that moment and that bronze medal would always rank among her best memories.”
