Mike Tirico Retains Asking Olympians What Occurs To Previous Drug-Check Urine

LIVIGNO, ITALY—In what has turn into the central focus of his primetime broadcasts evening after evening, NBC sportscaster Mike Tirico has devoted large swaths of Winter Video games protection this week to demanding solutions from Olympic athletes about what occurs to their previous drug-test urine. “Madison, Evan, everybody’s speaking concerning the judging controversy that value you gold, however earlier than we get into that, I wish to discuss your urine—particularly what they do with it after they’re accomplished testing it for medication, as a result of that is elite urine from world-class athletes, which I assume is extraordinarily useful,” Tirico mentioned when he interviewed U.S. ice dancers Madison Chock and Evan Bates after their heartbreaking second-place end, repeatedly interrupting fellow commentator Tara Lipinski’s questions on their efficiency to grill the pair about official urine protocols and whether or not the pattern is returned to them or repurposed for science—an inquiry he has pursued in almost each on-air section up to now on the Video games. “They’re clearly not simply flushing it down the bathroom like a traditional individual’s pee. That’d be insane. My guess is that they’re finding out the pee’s DNA to unlock sports activities secrets and techniques. Are you able to verify? Or if not, can you’re taking me to the laboratory the place they maintain it so I can examine? I belief the viewers at dwelling are curious too.” Based on witnesses, Tirico was later seen directing a digital camera crew into a chosen athlete restroom in hopes a competitor would let him doc their urine cup’s journey by the testing course of.