Presenting the Olympic Games is a privilege, and a mountain of work

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'I grew up wanting to be an Olympian, and as a broadcaster I don’t think things deviate too much – the pinnacle is the Games,' says Hamish McLachlan, who will be presenting his third olympics | tokyo olympics2020

I grew up wanting to be an Olympian, and as a broadcaster I don’t think things deviate too much – the pinnacle is the Games. You’ve got 11,000 athletes combining to do things that most of us think is impossible. You’ve got to bring those stories to life as well as you can. So it’s a privilege and it’s the pinnacle, but it’s a mountain of work. It’s like doing your year 12 exams with everyone watching.

Yeah. I mean there’s 339 gold medals, across 33 sports, and within the sports there’s different disciplines. Like with the cycling, there’s road and track and BMX and BMX freestyle and it goes on and on. There’s so much that you’ll never become an expert in any, but you’ve got to be well-equipped in all. There’s 206 national Olympic committees, you need to know something about all the countries.

The most obvious difference – and we’ve sort of become used to it – is no one watching [at venues]. At the start of the AFL season last year it was surreal: halfway through the year it had become more normal. The other aspect is the actual broadcast, the technical side. We’re used to being at the event: seeing, smelling, hearing, and deriving energy from the bubble and the noise. Now we’re remote, we’re not at the venues, we’re not touching and feeling and seeing like we used to.

 

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