Tracey Holmes

Tracey Holmes is an Australian television and radio presenter, specialising largely in sport. She began working as a journalist at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1990, and was the first female host of its sports programme Grandstand. From 1996 to 1998, she worked as a media advisor for the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG). In 1998, she co-hosted SBS presentation of the FIFA World Cup. She appeared on the nightly World Cup Show during the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany

From 1998 to 2000, she worked as a sports presenter for television station Channel Seven. This ended in some controversy when her contract was terminated weeks from the 2000 Summer Olympics after an extramarital affair with Stan Grant. She then moved overseas with Grant and worked as a sports broadcaster in Hong Kong and Beijing.

In 2006, Holmes returned to Sydney. She acted as fill-in presenter for Richard Glover's radio drive program on 702 ABC Sydney during the 2006/2007 summer break. In February 2007, Holmes was appointed as the ABC Radio Grandstand announcer taking over from Simone Thurtell who moved to 1233 ABC Newcastle as drive presenter.

References

* [http://www.abc.com.au ABC Australia]