, where he spends each Sunday perched solo at his desk and absolutely bursting with information to share as a full slate of games unfolds. This summer the TV veteran will bring his familiar élan to PeacockScott Hanson: Big Olympics fan. I’ve watched every Olympics, Winter and Summer, since I knew what the Olympics was. I’ve never been to the Olympics before, and I’ve never covered it before, so it’ll be new for me in that respect..
But it was a hard sell. You know? Because how much does anyone know about Bahrain handball? Or Turkish water polo?Gold Zone SI: In your prep, how much are you focused on learning the athletes and the countries, and how much is it like learning all the rules for judo and fencing and the modern pentathlon scoring system?
SH: Sure. The NBC Sports folks said part of the reason they wanted to recruit me is because of my institutional knowledge of how we produce. They want my ideas, as to how we can mix Olympic sports together and make it a fascinating viewing experience. So yeah, I 100% anticipate there’ll be double-boxes, maybe a triple-box or a quad-box. If anyone knows what the Latin or Greek prefix is for 39, that’s that most boxes we could have because they have 39 sports.