Tracey Holmes (born 5 April 1966), an

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, is a presenter on

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''NewsRadio'', since January 2014, with an extensive career in television and radio, specialising predominantly in sport.

Career

Born 1966 in

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to a surfing family Holmes began her work in 1989 as a journalist at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and was Australia's first female host of a national sports programme, ''Grandstand''. From 1996 to 1998, she worked as a media spokesperson for the

Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, officially branded as Sydney 2000, and also known as the Games of the New Millennium, were an international multi-sport event held from 15 September to 1 October ...

(SOCOG). In

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

, she co-hosted SBS' presentation of the

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. She appeared on the nightly World Cup Show during the

2006 FIFA World Cup The 2006 FIFA World Cup was the 18th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international Association football, football world championship tournament. It was held from 9 June to 9 July 2006 in Germany, which had won the right to FIFA World Cup hosts ...

in Germany. From 1998 to 2000, she worked as a sports presenter for television station Channel Seven. Her contract was terminated amid some controversy in mid-2000. Holmes then moved overseas with her husband, journalist Stan Grant, and worked as a sports broadcaster in

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and

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. In 2006, Holmes returned to Sydney. She acted as fill-in presenter for Richard Glover's radio drive program on

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during the 2006/2007 summer break. In February 2007, Holmes was re-appointed as the ABC Radio ''Grandstand'' announcer, taking over from Simone Thurtell who moved to

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as Drive presenter. Holmes returned to the ABC in 2014, as a news anchor on ABC ''NewsRadio''. In 2021, Holmes was at the

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, and filing stories for

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and interviews on ABC Radio in

.Tokyo Olympics might be without crowds, but the atmosphere is still surprisingly awesome
Tracey Holmes in

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, 2021-07-28 In October 2023, Holmes announced her resignation from ABC ending her time with the broadcaster on 30 November. She has been a

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in Sport at the

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Personal life

Holmes started a relationship with Stan Grant in 2000, and this caused them to leave Channel 7. In the next year, they had a son, Jesse, and soon afterward Grant was offered a broadcasting position with

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. It was there that Holmes studied

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. Two years later, Grant was offered a CNN correspondent position in

and they moved to mainland

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

.'Tracey's got a secret': Stan Grant and Tracey Holmes open up about their relationship and a surprise twist from the past
Tracey Spring,

, 2021-10-23 In the late 2010s, Holmes was made aware of how her maternal great-great-grandfather was a Joseph Lin, a doctor of

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, who had moved to Australia from Amoi in

Fujian Province Fujian is a province in southeastern China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, Guangdong to the south, and the Taiwan Strait to the east. Its capital is Fuzhou and its largest prefecture city by population is Qua ...

in the 1850s, to serve the needs of Chinese gold miners at

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in southern

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. He later settled in

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(coincidentally, Grant's tribal

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country) with an Anglo wife, Elizabeth (née Wood), having three children. When their Chinese family name caused teasing of the children, the name was changed to Holmes, the name of Elizabeth's first husband who had died. Holmes and Grant have claimed that people in China looked at their son, Jesse, and noted Chinese facial features.

References

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