Will the real Brian Williams please stand up?

An American Brian Williams has told a Canadian Brian Williams that the news business isn't big enough for both of them, as he once told the Australian Brian Williams, Reuters’ own.

The US Brian Williams does the Nightly News show on NBC television. He is heading for Vancouver in February to cover the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. The Canadian Brian Williams, of CTV, is considered the dean of Olympic broadcasting in Canada.

Reuters' Brian Williams - the Digger, now retired and living in Athens after a career that took him from London to New York to Tokyo and many places in between - organised coverage of the 2004 Olympics in Athens.

"I've told Brian Williams, as I once told Reuters Tokyo Bureau Chief Brian Williams, that this business isn't big enough for both of us," the US Brian Williams said. "I'm actually looking forward to seeing Brian in Vancouver. We've been in touch in the past - and I have always identified myself to Canadians as the 'other' Brian Williams."

PHOTO: The real Brian Williams is pictured recumbent. ■