Eddie McGuire
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Spearheading Nine’s coverage of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games will be Eddie McGuire and Ken Sutcliffe. McGuire will host the prime-time coverage from Vancouver, with Sutcliffe hosting the daily live coverage. Weekend Today's Leila McKinnon and Cameron Williams will provide regular result updates throughout the day.
McGuire and McKinnon will commentate on both the Opening and Closing Ceremonies.
Nine claims it is the biggest free-to-air broadcast of the Olympic Winter Games ever seen in Australia.
For 17 days Nine will broadcast over 130 hours from the Games in Vancouver, including downhill skiing, acrobatic aerials, moguls, luge, bobsleigh, speed skating, figure skating and more.
Three-time Olympic coach and commentator Belinda Noonan will team with commentator Warren Smith for the figure skating competition.
Australia’s first gold medallist at an Olympic Winter Games, Steven Bradbury, will return to the sport that made him famous when he calls the short track speed skating competition.
Three-time Olympic speed skater Carla Zijlstra will be the commentator on the men’s and women’s speed skating competitions, supported by Olympic and AFL broadcaster Dwayne Russell.
At Cypress Mountain, Olympic gold medallist Alisa Camplin will join McGuire to call the aerials competition that made her a household name in 2002.
Cricket and AFL commentator James Brayshaw and Michael Kennedy, former international moguls competitor and dual Winter Olympics coach, will call the thrills and spills of the moguls competition. Kennedy, who is CEO for Ski and Snowboard Australia, will also team up with McGuire to call the ski cross competition.
Jay Onley, a three-time Australian snowboard champion and former world number three, will team up with Brayshaw to call the action from the snowboard competition.
Up the mountain at Whistler, Phil Liggett, arguably the world’s finest sports caller, will head up Nine’s coverage of the alpine skiing. Renowned as the voice of the Tour de France, the eight-time Olympic commentator will be joined Steven Lee, a three-time Olympian, to call the slalom, giant slalom, downhill, super combined and Super G.
Luge, skeleton and bobsleigh are three of the most dangerous and high-energy events at the Winter Olympics. Roger White, the first and only Australian male to compete in the luge, at the Winter Games in Lillehammer in 1994, will team up with Andrew Voss to call these three daredevil events.
Nine Network Head of Sport, Steve Crawley, said on the announcement of Nine’s Olympic Winter Games team: “This is an outstanding group of talented presenters, commentators and reporters set to bring Australian viewers all the action and excitement of the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games.
“Nine is committed to providing more than 130 hours of exceptional coverage across 17 days of elite competition.”
