Savannah Guthrie, Terry Gannon to Co-Host the 2026 Winter Games Opening Ceremony: EXCLUSIVE

Savannah Guthrie and Terry Gannon are able to introduce the world’s prime athletes on the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy.

The TODAY co-anchor and NBC Sports commentator had been introduced on TODAY Sept. 23 because the co-hosts of the opening ceremony for the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics. The opening ceremony for the 2026 Winter Games will happen on Feb. 6 and might be proven on NBC and streamed on Peacock.

Savannah has turn into an Olympic fixture, as this might be her fourth time broadcasting a gap ceremony celebration. She co-hosted the printed for the Olympics in Tokyo and Beijing, and final summer time, she was stationed on a bridge over the Seine in Paris alongside Hoda Kotb for the historic boat parade.

Savannah will even proceed to co-anchor TODAY in the course of the Milan Cortina Olympics, as she beforehand did for the Olympics in London, Sochi, PyeongChang, Tokyo and Paris.

This might be Gannon’s first time internet hosting the opening ceremony after having hosted the previous 4 Olympic closing ceremonies.

Savannah and Gannon might be joined within the broadcast sales space by a Winter Olympics legend, three-time snowboarding gold medalist Shaun White.

The five-time Olympian will provide his commentary alongside Savannah and Gannon when the athletes enter San Siro Stadium in Milan for the Parade of Nations. The historic stadium, which opened in 1926, is dwelling to skilled soccer groups AC Milan and Inter Milan.

White beforehand contributed to NBC Olympics protection for the Olympic Games in London (2012) and Rio de Janeiro (2016).

“The Olympics have been such a huge part of my life, and to return in this new role — celebrating the athletes, the energy, and the incredible backdrop of Italy — is truly an honor,” White said in a news release. “I know what that moment means when the world is watching, and I can’t wait to help bring that magic to everyone at home.”

“I couldn’t be more thrilled to host the Opening Ceremony alongside the incomparable Terry Gannon and snowboarding legend Shaun White,” Savannah mentioned in an announcement. “It’s such an honor to celebrate the world’s best athletes and introduce the magic and wonder of the Winter Games and northern Italy to viewers at home.”

The 2026 Games mark the primary Winter Olympics in Western Europe because the 2006 Torino Olympics in Italy.

NBC Sports commentator Mike Tirico will even be a part of the opening ceremony protection, two days earlier than he handles the play-by-play name for Super Bowl 60 on NBC and Peacock.

Live protection of the opening ceremony begins at 12 p.m. ET on Feb. 6, 2026, and primetime protection begins at 8 p.m. ET, each on NBC and Peacock.

The opening ceremony might be produced by Lindsay Schanzer and directed by Mike Sheehan, each of whom are Sports Emmy Award winners.

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