According to a source, NBC Sports has kept most of its announcing teams at home for the next Beijing Winter Olympics due to fears about Covid-19.

“The announce teams for these Olympics, including figure skating, will be calling events from our Stamford (Conn.) facility due to COVID concerns,” Greg Hughes, senior vice president communications, NBC Sports, said in a phone interview with USA Today.

“We’ll still have a large presence on the ground in Beijing, and our coverage of everything will be first rate as usual, but our plans are evolving by the day as they are for most media companies covering the Olympics,” he added.

NBC's figure skating, Alpine skiing, and snowboarding broadcasting teams were originally scheduled to attend the games. The rest had already been assigned to Connecticut. The majority of NBC's team stayed at home during the Tokyo Summer Olympics, while several sports, such as gymnastics and swimming, had teams on the ground in Japan.

Mike Tirico, the network's Olympic host, will be in China for the opening ceremony on February 4 and the first few days of the Games. However, he was relocated to Los Angeles to host the Super Bowl on February 13, another NBC property this year.