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Colin Jost’s Olympics Surfing Correspondent Days Are Over As The Competition Continues


Deadline understands that Jost's stint was always supposed to be a short-term thing, and that the SNL castmember is now in Europe.

“It’s a weird feeling when you’re in the medical tent way more than any of the athletes,” Colin Jost told NBC Olympics host Maria Taylor last week. The Weekend Update anchor had taken up the unique mantle of “Olympics Surfing Correspondent” for NBC’s coverage of the competition, which is taking place in Tahiti. Jost himself updated viewers on Instagram today writing in part, “Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

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