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===NBC Sports=== In 1992, Lampley moved to [[NBC Sports|NBC]], where he helped cover the [[1992 Summer Olympics|1992 Barcelona Olympics]], [[1993 Ryder Cup]], and the [[1996 Summer Olympics|1996 Atlanta Olympics]]. In [[1993 NFL season|1993]], Lampley took over studio hosting duties for [[Bob Costas]] on ''The [[NFL on NBC]]''. Lampley moved to play-by-play duties for NBC's NFL telecasts the following year and was later replaced by [[Greg Gumbel]]. While with ''NFL on NBC'', he was slated to join [[Jim Laslavic]] as the #8 announcing team in [[1997 NFL season|1997]] during Week 9's [[1997 Tennessee Oilers season|Tennessee Oilers]]-[[1997 Arizona Cardinals season|Arizona Cardinals]] game; however, he was not placed in the lineup at all. In 1995, he began working at the ''[[Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel]]'' HBO series. In 1998, he covered the [[1998 Winter Olympics|Nagano Olympics]] and the [[Goodwill Games]] for [[Turner Sports|Turner]], and in 2000, he covered the [[2000 Summer Olympics|Sydney Olympics]], again for NBC. In 2004, Lampley was the daytime anchor for NBC's Olympics coverage for the [[2004 Summer Olympics]], as well as anchoring the [[USA Network]]'s coverage of the Games. In 2006, Lampley served as a central correspondent for the [[2006 Winter Olympics]] which aired on the networks of [[Olympics on NBC|NBC Universal]]. Torino 2006 was the 13th Olympics Lampley covered, surpassing the record set by America's original voice of the Olympics, [[Jim McKay]]. Lampley was again called upon to anchor for the [[2008 Summer Olympics]] in [[Beijing, China]], Lampley's 14th Games. The [[2010 Winter Olympics]] was the first time since the [[1980 Summer Olympics]] that he didn't cover. [[Al Michaels]] served as the daytime host of the 2010 Olympics on NBC. Lampley also did not cover the [[2012 Summer Olympics]] either in which Michaels also served as the daytime host.
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