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12/04 07:02 CST Ligety and Street join NBC broadcast team covering ski racing
at Milan Cortina Games
Ligety and Street join NBC broadcast team covering ski racing at Milan Cortina
Games
By PAT GRAHAM
AP Sports Writer
BEAVER CREEK, Colo. (AP) --- U.S. ski racing greats Ted Ligety and Picabo
Street made yet another Olympic team.
On this occasion, as TV reporters.
Ligety and Street join the NBC broadcasting crew that will cover ski racing at
the Milan Cortina Winter Games in February. The team also includes longtime NBC
broadcaster Dan Hicks and analyst Steve Porino. Cara Banks and Heather Cox will
serve as on-site reporters.
For Hicks, this will be his 15th play-by-play assignment at the Olympics. It
marks his fourth time calling ski racing after switching over from speed
skating.
"There's nothing like the Olympics," said Hicks, who's also called swimming at
eight Summer Games. "It's one of those few sporting events where you're just
guaranteed some sort of drama that you just never expected. It's the greatest
sporting spectacle in the world."
Ligety, a four-time Olympian, captured gold in the combined at the 2006 Turin
Games and another in the giant slalom eight years later in Sochi. This will be
his second Olympics with NBC. He will be based in Bormio for the men's races.
A three-time Olympian, Street won a gold medal in the super-G at the 1998
Nagano Olympics. She will cover the women's races in Cortina d'Ampezzo during
her NBC Olympics debut.
Porino takes part in his 10th Olympics for NBC.
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