Which is good, given the network's previous Olympic voices.

In addition to Bob Costas returning as primetime host and Al Michaels— replacing Jim Lampley— serving as daytime host in his first Olympic assignment since 1988, Mary Carillo will return as late-night host.

The inimitable Dick Button, who worked NBC's 2006 Winter Games, will be a correspondent. So will NFL analyst Cris Collinsworth who, as he did at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, will serve as a sort of roving Everyman.

In addition to Michaels, NBC's on-air newcomers include Mike Milbury and Jeremy Roenick as hockey studio analysts and Ed Olczyk as a game analyst; Jonny Moseley as a freestyle skiing analyst; Colleen Jones as a curling analyst; Lea Ann Parsley as a skeleton analyst; and short-track skating analyst Andy Gabel.

And anybody worried about NBC doing too much (or too little) flag-waving in its coverage note this: NBC's 53 commentators include seven natives of host Canada — including Don Duguid and Colleen Jones, NBC's two curling analysts. Let's hope they wouldn't have mixed emotions about what would constitute, say, a miracle on the curling ice.