Leigh Diffey, veteran motorsports play-by-play announcer, led the NBC telecast coverage of the track and field competition for the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics. It’s less well known among motor racing aficionados, but this is Diffey’s sixth Olympiad engagement, both Summer and Winter.
He did have one hiccup on the virtually dead heat finish in the 100m Gold Medal dash, calling Kishane Thompson the winner when American Noah Lyles late lunge gave him the victory by nanoseconds. Our man was gracious in admitting the error: “My eyes [and] instinct told me Kishane Thompson won. Obviously, that wasn’t the case. I shouldn’t have been so bold to call it, but I genuinely thought he won. I got it wrong.”
You gotta cut Leigh some slack, Track athletes don’t have transponders.
