NBC is bringing back veteran voices from their Olympic team that fans have come to love. The network announced this week that Mary Carillo, Andrea Joyce, and Jimmy Roberts are serving as NBC Olympics commentators in Tokyo.
Carillo and Roberts are holding correspondent duties in Tokyo, while Joyce works as a reporter at the gymnastics competition and handles play-by-play for rhythmic gymnastics. Olympic coverage is built into the fabric of their careers. The trio has covered nearly 50 combined Olympics together.
“It’s an honor to call Mary, Andrea, and Jimmy our Olympic teammates. They bring vast experience, knowledge, and the all-important element of humanity to our storytelling,” said Joe Gesue, Senior Vice President, NBC Olympics production. “And while Mary, Jimmy, and Andrea continue to make major contributions on-air as they have for decades, we also celebrate our legendary colleague Peter Diamond, who has guided so many of us with his unmatched Olympic knowledge and experience for so many years, and in Tokyo will work his record 19th Olympics across the production and executive teams of NBC and ABC.”
Diamond is the man behind all the Olympic execution for NBC. The Executive Vice President of Programming is working his 19th Olympics, the most of any TV executive ever. Diamond’s career began at ABC in 1974 as an Olympic researcher. Now he’s the most senior sports programmer among all U.S. broadcast networks.
This year’s event is Roberts’ 18th Olympic assignment. The 13-time Emmy Award-winning broadcaster reprises his role reporting on the Olympic stories happening at the Games. Carillo is back for her 15th Olympics to tell the audience about the people and cultural impact the games can have on the host city. Finally, Joyce is covering her 15th Olympics with a close eye on the return of Simone Biles to the gymnastics floor.