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Dave Gordon has been Head of Major Events at ±«Óãtv Sport since 2001 and led the teams delivering ±«Óãtv Sport’s coverage of the London 2012 Olympics. It was his tenth summer Games at the ±«Óãtv. He was subsequently made ±«Óãtv Director of 2012 for the Paralympics and Athlete’s Parade.

Dave joined the ±«Óãtv a month after the Munich Olympics; Moscow, 1980 was the first he attended and he has been at every one since Seoul in 1988. He led the ±«Óãtv teams in Sydney, Athens and Beijing; He has also worked on the last seven Winter Olympics and eight Commonwealth Games, taking editorial responsibility for them since 1994. He has also been responsible for the coverage of the ±«Óãtv’s Athletics events, including the London Marathon, Great North Run and World and European Championships from 1994 to 2009.

He has won numerous awards including, the Olympic Gold Rings for the Barcelona and Sydney Olympics plus BAFTAs for coverage of Sydney and the Manchester Commonwealth Games. He is a member of the IOC and IAAF TV Commissions.

For four months in 2005, he was Acting Director of Sport following the resignation of Peter Salmon and the appointment of Roger Mosey.

Dave’s ±«Óãtv career started after university in 1972, when he became a Radio Studio Manager, specialising in News, Current Affairs and Sports Programmes. He became a Producer and then Senior Producer in 1983. By 1984, he was editing daily sport news coverage.

Dave moved to Television in 1985 and was appointed an Assistant Producer in TV Sport. Following spells on Grandstand and then Sportsnight, he was made Assistant Editor of Grandstand in March 1990, Editor in October 1991, and Executive Editor in 1997.

Dave is married with two grown-up daughters. Outside work, he is a lifelong supporter of Fulham Football Club and is struggling to learn to play the Saxaphone.