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‘Today’ Heads to Paris Olympics for Morning-Show Gymnastics
NBC's venerable 'Today' will travel to Paris for the 2024 Summer Olympics, a journey the network hopes will bring new viewers to the A.M. franchise
Viewers of the Paris Olympics will expect to see plenty of Simone Biles, Katie Ledecky, Sha’Carri Richardson and LeBron James when they tune into NBC later this week to watch the athletic extravaganza. No families could sit in the stands during the 2021 Tokyo Olympics due to the coronavirus pandemic, and recent sites including Beijing and PyeongChang meant American audiences were hard-pressed to watch live competitions taking place during offbeat viewing hours. In 2015, while broadcasting from the Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, the pair moderated one of TV’s hardest interviews, a live exchange with a young survivor of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
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