Report: NBC announcers to call Beijing Olympics from Connecticut

NBC Sports is keeping all of its broadcast teams for the Olympics at home and won't send them to Beijing to call the 2022 Winter Games, USA Today reported Thursday.

The threat of COVID-19 and the omicron variant forced NBC to alter its plans. The network had intended to have announcer crews in Beijing for the high-viewership sports of figure skating, Alpine skiing and snowboarding, but they instead will work out of a stu