Bob Costas, AL Michael's make guest appearances on NBC'S Olympic coverage at Paris Games

Bob Costas and Al Michaels finally made their much-awaited appearance at the Paris Olympics sitting down on set with NBC host Mike Tio Sunday afternoon the two men reminisced about Great Moments and athletes from past Olympics held in the US as the trio looked ahead to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics both Costas and Michaels are synonymous with the Olympics costus served as the host of NBC's coverage from 1988 through 2016 Michael has held various Olympics roles Through The Years including co-hosting closing ceremonies with costus but he'll always be best remembered for his iconic do you believe in miracles yes call during team USA's Miracle on Ice gold medal hockey run in 1980 so having costus Michaels and Tio all together in the same room was like an iconic scene from the MCU with all the superheroes gathered together as Bonnie Bernstein aptly noted if this ain't the ultimate Olympics hype machine not sure what is the network plans to bring back legendary broadcasters Bob Costas and Al Michaels for surprise onair appearances during its coverage of the 2024 Paris Olympics the move represents a Reconciliation after both Costas and Michaels left NBC under something of a cloud the duo is synonymous with Olympic TV coverage Costa served as Prime Time host of a record 12 Olympic games from 1988 to 2016 Michaels delivered the most famous TV call in Olympic history exclaiming do you believe in miracles at the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid when Team USA Hockey edged out the Soviet Union on Wednesday Costas and Michaels were seen kibitzing with NBC guest commentator Snoop Dog at the beach volleyball venue under the shadows of the Eiffel Tower the pair also joined a CEO panel conducted by Sister Network CNBC Costa split with NBC in 2019 after 40 years as its biggest star Michaels gave up his Sunday Night Football announcer role to Mike tyo in 2022 with NBC giving him an ameritus title he then moved to Amazon Prime videos Thursday Night Football now it looks like NBC and the two broadcasters have set their differences aside Michaels already agreed to let NBC use an artificial intelligence version of his iconic voice to narrate Olympic highlights from Paris