Popular French TV host Michel Drucker is set to host regular talk shows during the Paris 2024 Games ©Getty Images

Michel Drucker, the popular French journalist and TV host who first broadcast in connection with the Olympics in 1964, plans to be involved in coverage of the Paris 2024 Games.

Drucker, who turns 80 in September, told Le Parisien that he will host a daily talk-show for France Télévisions during the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics.

Last December Drucker told L’Equipe: "I want to be in the game for the 2024 Paris Games! 

"I started with the coverage of those of Tokyo in 1964, it will be my 60 years of career."

During the Paris 2024 Games, popular French TV host Michel Drucker plans to continue a personal link to Olympic Games broadcasting that goes back to the Tokyo Games of 1964 ©Getty Images
During the Paris 2024 Games, popular French TV host Michel Drucker plans to continue a personal link to Olympic Games broadcasting that goes back to the Tokyo Games of 1964 ©Getty Images

Now he has confirmed to Le Parisien: "Being the only survivor of our Tokyo 1964 Olympic Games team, the management wants me to participate in those of Paris 2024. 

"I would like to host a Games club, a daily late-night talk show with Laurent Luyat, where we would welcome artists who are passionate about sport."

The former sports journalist will be covering first major sporting event on television since the 1986 FIFA World Cup.

France Télévisions has taken the free-to-air broadcasting rights for the 2024 Olympics from the Discovery group, which will broadcast the entirety on its pay channels and its Eurosport application.