He will join a more familiar roster of BBC Sport presenters in Paris, which will also include Hazel Irvine, Gabby Logan, Clare Balding, Mark Chapman, Isa Guha, Jeanette Kwakye and JJ Chalmers.
BBC pundits will include Britain’s two most decorated female Olympians, Dame Laura Kenny and Dame Katherine Grainger, cycling great Sir Chris Hoy, retired heptathletes Dame Denise Lewis and Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill, as well as the American four-time Olympic sprint gold medallist Michael Johnson.
Sharron Davies, who won an Olympic silver medal in 1980 behind an East German swimmer who later admitted to doping, will report on the swimming competition as part of a team that includes double Olympic champion Rebecca Adlington.
Chapman will also front the BBC’s radio coverage alongside Adrian Chiles, Eleanor Oldroyd, Kelly Cates, Naga Munchetty and Tony Livesey.
As in Tokyo, the BBC will have only two live broadcast streams after the International Olympic Committee awarded media rights in Europe to Warner Bros Discovery, which owns Eurosport and the streaming service Discovery+. It also co-owns TNT Sport, whose customers can access the Discovery+ platform.
The BBC will have one live channel as well as an ‘Olympics Extra’ live stream on BBC iPlayer.
