Al Craig | The Olympics & Sports Emmy Awards

you're a bit of a celebrity and a well-known person around the Olympic Games Winter Olympics wi winter summer yeah yeah and now I I have heard on the Great Vine you've been a part of a team that's achieved something pretty massive you got a you got a few Awards there Haven you I can't remember the organization in America but the the Emmy Awards comes up the sports Emmy Awards comes up and all of the networks throw in and nominate their great shows so you know there's the Super Bowl and there's this and there's the golf and there's this and that and NBC always puts up the the Olympics and at this point in time I I have six emms to my name mate there must be some stress behind this you've got millions of people around the world watching and it's like oh g l it's got to be a the you talk about music's in your heart but that's got to have your heart racing sometimes yeah my very first Olympics was the Sydney games yes and for that I worked for the host broadcaster and then after that I've worked with the with NBC ever since who are the American rights holder that's so great and do you like the SP like do you like the sports or you just I'm not a sports fan well well that's going to bugger my next question because um don't you do uh the Big Bash cricket and and rugby league rugby league a lot of rugby league yeah um I can I can come home from rugby league and my and Diane will say who won and go who played who played Oh we must have been at this stadium so it must have been yeah we must have played there must have been rabitos and dolphins you know I love it how long do the Olympics go for El well for you my contract's seven seven weeks wow but the the games themselves are two and a half or something towards the end of that it's the setting up packing up too it's all it's all wiring it up and making it work and testing and testing and testing and testing yeah and a lot of labeling first thing I do is I get myself one of those pouch labelers and I just label the crap out of everything because my previous boss said make it so that if you get sick if you fall down if you get hit by a bus anybody can come in here and figure out what you done [Music]

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