NBC Olympics Announcers Acknowledge Savannah Guthrie’s Absence: “We Send Our Love and Prayers”

The commentators for NBC’s coverage of the Winter Olympics opening ceremony took a moment to note the absence of their colleague, Today anchor Savannah Guthrie, at the top of the network’s telecast Friday.

Guthrie pulled out of NBC’s opening ceremony coverage to Milan, Italy, for the opening ceremony following the disappearance of her mother, Nancy, late last week in Arizona. Mary Carillo took her place on the opening ceremony, and she and fellow host Terry Gannon offered well wishes for Guthrie and her family before the ceremony began.

“We’re certainly without a very important and beloved member of our team tonight,” Gannon said of Guthrie. “She is dearly missed by everybody.”

Guthrie was set to work her fourth Olympics, joining Gannon and five-time Olympian Shaun White for the opening ceremony from Milan’s storied San Siro stadium. In the wake of Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance, which…