Rhona McLeod is a

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broadcaster. McLeod is a former international athlete and was a member of the Scottish Athletics team for seven years

Athletics career

As an athlete, her preferred events included sprint hurdles and long jump and she enjoyed a wealth of travel experiences around the world competing for her country. It was always her aim to combine her interest in sport with a future career in journalism.

Media career

After a freshman year studying Broadcasting at the

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, she completed a BA degree in Media Studies at the

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. In her working career McLeod started out by writing for the specialist sports magazines Scotland's Runner, Scottish, The Punter football magazine and Today's Runner. In 1995, she joined

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. For 20 years she Presented the sport segment on

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. She also presented Sport Nation on television and Sport Weekly on

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. In her time with BBC Scotland McLeod reported and presented from the France 98 World Cup, and

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, Manchester Melbourne Commonwealth Games, Glasgow 2014 and Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. She also presented sport from

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Olympic Games. For

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, McLeod wrote, presented and produced the documentary ''Gambian Goals - A Donkeymentary'' for a series of

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programmes. She also produced and presented the first television interview with Philippa York for

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. She is the recipient of a

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Award for Sports News journalism. In May 2019 McLeod left BBC Scotland to form her own media company McLeod Media. Notable clients include

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, Olympic Broadcasting Services,

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, Sportscotland,

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and

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amongst others. In this time she has reported and presented from 2020 Winter Youth Olympics in Lausanne,

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in Poland, Tokyo Olympics 2020 and the

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2022 in Belgrade. Her hobbies include walking her dog Archie, painting, watching and playing sport. She married Bruce Cook, from

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, in

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in January 2002, after 14 months of transatlantic dating. The couple have two daughters, born in October 2002 and November 2003. They live in the

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village of Balfron.

References

Interview: Rhona McLeod Tokyo Olympic Games

External] links

* https://mcleod-media.co.uk

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