Kenan Harkin returns to the Dew Tour as host, and will serve as the BMX and Mountain Bike analyst for his first Olympic broadcast assignment for NBC later this summer.

Harkin has worked with NBC since 1999 hosting a myriad of action sports events, including the Gravity Games and the Dew Action Sports Tour. Earlier that year, Harkin was a featured rider on the Destination Extreme broadcast by ESPN. Upon seeing his clip, producers offered him a job to be the sideline reporter for the rest of tour.

Born in 1974 on Long Island, N.Y., Harkin was one of seven children. As he grew up he quickly fell in love with BMX bikes. In 1983, his mother brought him to Shoreham Raceway on the east end of Long Island, where he began BMX racing competitively at the young age of nine years old.

Then in 1988, at the age of 14, he began to experiment more with his riding style. Simply riding fast was not enough for Harkin, so he starting pushing the limits of his riding. Throughout the early 90’s, before bicycle freestyle events in competitions such as the X-Games or Dew Tour were prevalent, Harkin was zigzagging across the U.S. displaying his incredible skills for small, local audiences, while continually developing new tricks and his own special style of riding. Then in 1994 he met Matt Hoffman and Jay Miron, where he trained at the legendary Woodward Camp.

Two years later, Harkin became the first BMX free-stylist to successfully and consistently pull the 360-degree back flip in competition. He competed on several tours and gained serious sponsorship as action sports and freestyle BMX began to catch on across the nation and around the world.

Tiffany Simons returns for her fourth year working on the Dew Tour. Now the sideline reporter for NBC’s Dew Tour, Simons actually began working as a research assistant for the broadcasting team in 2005.

In addition to working on Dew Tour, Tiffany is the Co-Host of several shows on NBCSports.com: Fantasy Fix, Fantasy Baseball, Buzzer Beater, Irish Live and MMA Fight Weekly. Over the last year, Tiffany’s job has taken her all over the country to cover some of the most exciting sporting events such as Super Bowl XLII, the NBA All Star Game, March Madness, Elite XC on CBS, the NBA Draft and many more. In April, Tiffany traveled to Beijing, China to cover the first ever international skateboard competition, the China Invitational, an ALLI event. Simons has also anchored the NBC Sports Update Desk and been featured on CNBC’s Fast Money. From athletes such as Shaq, David Wright, and Brady Quinn to playing basketball with David Lee and ping pong with Donovan McNabb, Tiffany has interviewed a wide array of some of the best athletes playing sports today.

Tiffany began her reporting career at an online TV show featuring stories on hot spots in and around New York City and a daily entertainment/news update. Prior to living in NYC, she worked as an Associate Producer for WPEC News 12 in West Palm Beach, Florida. Simons graduated Florida State University in 2003 with a degree in Mass Media Studies. She spent the summer after graduation interning at CBS Sports in New York.

Currently residing in New York City, Tiffany is really a Southern beach girl at heart. Born in Houston, Texas, her family relocated to South Florida when she was 9 years old. She grew up as a dancer spending most of her teenage years performing on stage and traveling to competitions. No stranger to taking center stage, Simons was the 1st Runner Up for Miss Florida Teen USA in 1999 and placed 6th in 2003 for Miss Florida USA. She’s a huge football fan and always roots for her team. Go Noles!

Las Vegas native T.J. Lavin returns to the Dew Tour’s broadcasting team as one of NBC’s BMX on-air commentators for the 2008 season.

Lavin started riding BMX bikes at age 3. His career began as a BMX racer, but in 1995 at age 19, he began competing professionally in BMX Dirt. That same year he took top honors at the King of Dirt competition. Lavin has won seven X Games medals and is respected by his peers as a BMX legend.

In addition to competitive riding, Lavin also produces his own music and has spent the last five seasons hosting MTV’s Real World Road World Challenge.

Hailing from his home port of England, Jamie Bestwick joins the Dew Tour’s broadcast team as one of NBC’s BMX on-air commentators for the 2007 season. With his witty and candid humor, Bestwick gives viewers an expert point-of-view on the live NBC broadcasts of the Dew Tour. Bestwick is undoubtedly the top BMX Vert rider in the world and has been awarded the UK Rider of the Year from 1995 to present. He’s won countless X Games and Gravity Games gold medals, is the 2005 and 2006 Dew Cup winner in BMX Vert, and was the AST Dew Tour Athlete of the Year in 2006. In 2005, Bestwick won every contest he entered! Bestwick, his wife Kerry, and their son Samuel, make their home in State College, Pa. where he trains at Camp Woodward, an action sports camp and training facility, but also resides in Derbyshire, England during the off-season.

Paul Zitzer joins the Dew Tour’s broadcasting team as the NBC on-air skateboard commentator for the 2007 season. Zitzer has been skating professionally since 1993 and has been fortunate to make a living doing what he loves. Not only talented on the board, Zitzer has a way with words. In 2005, Zitzer became the Skateboard Editor for Sophisticated Rider, a magazine that covers skateboarding, BMX, and FMX. He also blogged about the AST Dew Tour in 2006 on Lat34.com. When Paul’s not skateboarding or writing, he’s busy helping the UPSA (United Professional Skateboards Association), an organization that helps skate pros with health insurance and representation. A born and raised Midwestern guy, Zitzer moved to Tampa, Fla. after graduating high school in 1990 and now resides there with his wife.