Bob Costas with NBC anchors and Olympians during Rio in the summer of 2016. (Photo by Harry How/Getty Images)

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night nor oozing eye puss (until it affected both eyes) could keep sports broadcaster Bob Costas from hosting NBC’s coverage of the Olympics—until now.

For more than two decades, since Barcelona in 1992, Costas has helmed the desk as the prime-time Olympic anchor. Beginning in 2018, though, Mike Tirico will take over, NBC announced today.

They appeared together on the Today Show on Thursday so Costas could “pass the torch” to Tirico before the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea. Wednesday marked the year-mark before the games will begin.

Interviewer Matt Lauer characterized Costa’s move as “giving up the Olympic gig,” rather than getting forced out. (Not like NBC has a history of pushing out its hosts.)

It’s not a retirement, per say, for the baby-faced 64 year old. “They’ve been kind enough to call it the Brokaw phase of my career,” explained Costas about his new role with NBC, referring to the former Nightly News anchor who still sometimes appears on air. “I’ll show up when it’s appropriate to show up,” Costas said.

Tirico, the first recipient of a Bob Costas scholarship at their shared alma mater of Syracuse University, joined NBC from ESPN’s Monday Night Football this past summer. Rio marked his his first time covering the Olympics.

Costas warned Tirico that he would get dragged online no matter what he did. “There’s somebody out there who is going to say, ‘How come you said more about Lithuania than you did about Latvia? I hate you.'”