NEW YORK — Al Michaels will serve as a host for NBC's coverage of next year's Winter Olympics, returning to the event where he made his iconic call.

The network said Thursday that Michaels will host more than 50 hours of live weekend and weekday daytime coverage from Vancouver. The 2010 Games mark the 30th anniversary of his call of the "Miracle on Ice," when the U.S. hockey team shocked the Soviet Union at the Lake Placid Olympics.

Michaels famously exclaimed: "Do you believe in miracles? Yes!"

Michaels hasn't worked an Olympics since the 1988 Calgary Games.

He joined NBC's Sunday Night Football broadcasts in 2006. Vancouver will be his sixth Olympics and first as a host.