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In July 2017, she was named as the main presenter for the BBC's golf coverage, replacing Hazel Irvine, to whom she had written for career advice and who had been a major influence on her career. Barbour's father had always played golf, and she took up the sport in her teenage years, around the same time when her own mother wanted to learn as well.
In 2018 she presented coverage of the 2018 FIFA World Cup for Optus Sport, [4] and in 2019 presented the BBC's coverage of the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup. [ 3 ] [ 5 ] Following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic , which required many activities, including football, to cease for a while, she was part of the reporting team to cover one of the ...
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The BBC Sports Team of the Year Award is an award given annually as part of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year ceremony each December. Currently, the award is given "for the team in an individual sport or sporting discipline that has achieved the most notable performance in the calendar year to date.
BBC Online, formerly known as BBCi, is the BBC's online service. It is a large network of websites including such high-profile sites as BBC News and Sport, the on-demand video and radio services branded BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds, the children's sites CBBC and CBeebies, and learning services such as Bitesize and Own It.
The BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award is the main award of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year ceremony, which takes place each December. The winner is the sportsperson, judged by a public vote, to have achieved the most that year.
Downes joined the BBC Sport team in 2012 when it moved to Salford. She had previously worked as a reporter and occasional presenter on BBC South East Today, as well as reporting on a variety of news stories as a correspondent for BBC Breakfast and the BBC News Channel during 2011. [2] [better source needed]
BBC Sport has many more correspondents focussed on Final Score and Match of the Day programmes, all BBC Sport presenters are also correspondents for the department.