BBC Olympics: Where are the Women Commentators?
Dolly Armstrong
2025-05-27 07:40:45
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Leading BBC Sport’s TV coverage are stalwart presenters Clare Balding, Gabby Logan, Hazel Irvine, Isa Guha, Jeanette Kwakye, JJ Chalmers and Mark Chapman. New faces on the punditry team include Laura Kenny, Team GB’s most decorated female Olympian, and TV personality Fred Siriex, whose daughter Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix is a diving medal contender. Other pundits include: Beth Tweddle, Chris Hoy, Denise Lewis, Jessica Ennis-Hill, Kate Richardson-Walsh, Katherine Grainger, Mark Foster, Michael Johnson, Nicola Adams, Rebecca Adlington and Tonia Couch. Kwakye and Chalmers will welcome viewers each morning from the broadcaster’s Paris studio before Irvine takes over in the afternoon. Balding (swimming) and Logan (athletics) will again oversee the marquee evening medal races in two of the highest profile sports at the Games.
Darlene Dickens
2025-05-13 21:51:39
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The BBC, however, have gone down a different route. Their three main presenters are all female – Clare Balding, Hazel Irvine and Gabby Logan, all very capable, experienced and enthusiastic about the events that lie before them. Furthermore, they also have Isa Guha and Jeanette Kwakye working in partnership with JJ Chalmers and Mark Chapman. Don’t be surprised if Guha and Kwakye have quite a part to play in the future as long as the Beeb can hang on to the sports rights they have at the moment.
Bell Quigley
2025-05-13 17:34:06
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Clare Balding, Gabby Logan, Hazel Irvine, Isa Guha, Jeanette Kwakye, JJ Chalmers, and Mark Chapman will be leading BBC Sport's coverage over the next couple of weeks, broadcasting live from Trocadero in the OBS broadcaster studio block overlooking the Eiffel Tower. Over on 5 Live Breakfast, Rachel Burden and Rick Edwards will hear from Team GB medalists, families and fans while keeping listeners updated on the latest Olympics news. As for the commentary, Olympic bronze medalists Katharine Merry and Allison Curbishley will be covering the athletics. Elsewhere, Alistair Bruce-Ball, Jonathan Overend, Steve Bunce and Sonja McLaughlan will also be commentating, alongside Olympians Victoria Pendleton, Louis Smith, Steve Parry, Karen Pickering and Jess Eddie.
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