New NBC Olympics host Mike Tirico will try to avoid making political references like Bob Costas did

SportsBusiness Daily

“I’m much more a believer of ‘Here are the facts, you decide,’” Tirico tells the Sports Business Journal of hosting the primetime Winter Olympics show for the first time. “I don’t want to say (more) than Bob, but just in general, that’s my approach to most of these things. You don’t see me in 27, 28 years doing a lot of commentary within sports on ‘The NFL should do this,’ or ‘How dare the NBA.’ If I have an opinion, I will suggest a line of questioning, perhaps look to carve out a little bit of space to say something. But I’m of the opinion, especially here at the start, that people aren’t coming to watch the Games to watch me.”