GRAND SLAM TRACK™ Broadcasts Broadcast Workforce for Inaugural Season
World-class group of Broadcasters revealed; will present full protection of all 4 Slams this season, starting with the Kingston Slam, April 4–6.
New York, NY (April 1, 2025) – Grand Slam Observe™, the worldwide residence {of professional} monitor competitors launched by four-time Olympic Champion Michael Johnson, immediately formally introduced the lineup of broadcast expertise for its inaugural season of competitors.
“I’m thrilled to unveil our first-class broadcast workforce for our inaugural season,” mentioned Grand Slam Observe™ Founder and Commissioner Michael Johnson. “These are people I do know from my work inside the media trade, and really feel very assured these are one of the best folks on the market to inform our tales to followers world wide. We will’t wait to lastly get racing, and this lineup of expertise ensures Grand Slam Observe™ will carry audiences together with us for our festivals of velocity.”
The printed commentary workforce will probably be led by former world report holder and Olympic silver medalist in middle-distance occasions, Steve Cram. Cram brings many years of broadcasting expertise with the BBC, identified for his insightful commentary and deep data of athletics. Cram will probably be joined by Carrie Tollefson and Anson Henry as analysts. Tollefson is a five-time NCAA champion and 2004 Olympian within the 1500m. She has established herself as a revered voice in distance working commentary with expertise masking main marathons and monitor occasions for a number of networks. Henry, a former Canadian Olympic sprinter who competed within the 2008 Beijing Olympics, affords viewers skilled evaluation of dash occasions drawing from his technical data of sprinting mechanics and race technique. As a broadcaster he has lined a number of World Championships.
Radzi Chinyanganya and Taliyah Brooks will present reporting from trackside and all through the stadium. Chinyanganya is an skilled broadcaster identified for his work with BBC Sports activities and their Olympic protection. He brings power and fascinating interviewing abilities to the trackside reporting position. Brooks is a former NCAA and US Olympic workforce heptathlon star who brings first-hand multi-event expertise to her reporting. She affords distinctive insights into the technical facets of varied occasions whereas conducting compelling athlete interviews.
The Pre- and Submit-Slam exhibits will probably be hosted by John Anderson, who will probably be accompanied by Matt “Centro” Centrowitz, and Sanya Richards-Ross. Anderson is a veteran sports activities broadcaster with in depth expertise at ESPN and internet hosting main monitor occasions. His skilled presence guides viewers via the printed with skilled transitions and educated commentary. Centrowitz was the Olympic gold medalist within the 1500m on the 2016 Rio Video games. He supplies modern insights into distance racing ways and athlete preparation from his current aggressive expertise on the highest degree. Richards-Ross is a four-time Olympic gold medalist and former 400m world champion. She affords elite-level evaluation of dash occasions with explicit experience in one-lap racing and relay dynamics and has been a fixture of NBC Sports activities’ monitor & subject protection since 2016.
Grand Slam Observe™ will probably be broadcast in 189 nations and territories worldwide. For info on the place to observe, click on right here. Full biographies and headshots of the printed workforce are connected on the finish of this launch.
Additionally introduced immediately is Grand Slam Observe™’s roster of in-stadium expertise for Kingston: Paul Swangard, Donald Smith, Iwan Thomas, Trishana McGowan, and Tiara “Tee” Williams.
Paul Swangard has been one of many main voices on monitor for greater than 30 years, offering commentary throughout tv, streaming, and in-stadium. Final summer season, he lined his second consecutive Olympic Video games for NBC Sports activities. Donald Smith is a famend monitor commentator, announcer, and host, having been lively in these roles since 2012. He hosts a number of growth meets every year, and has been stadium announcer for a plethora of worldwide meets, together with the 2024 Paris Olympic Video games and the 2024 World Relays within the Bahamas. Thomas is a former European and Commonwealth 400m Champion, World Champion and Olympic silver medalist, and British 400-meter report holder for 25 years. He has been a daily on tv screens and infield host for the final 4 World Athletics Championships. Trishana McGowan is a former monitor athlete turned award-winning sports activities journalist and content material creator, with a platform devoted to bringing followers unique behind-the-scenes entry to sports activities in Jamaica. She has a ardour for storytelling, and uncovering the moments that form athletes, groups, and sporting occasions past the sport. Tiara Williams is an entrepreneur altering the sport of storytelling in monitor. Identified for her robust relationships with athletes, she creates house for them to share their genuine tales. As a broadcaster, content material creator, guide, and social media supervisor, Tiara brings recent power and a novel vibe to every part she creates, redefining how followers join with the game.
Tickets for the Slams in Kingston, Miami, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles are on sale now. For extra info, please go to https://grandslamtrack.com/
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About Grand Slam Observe
Grand Slam Observe™ is the worldwide residence of elite monitor competitors based by four-time Olympic champion Michael Johnson. The league is redefining the panorama of monitor with a deal with head-to-head competitors between the quickest people on the planet: fostering rivalries, celebrating racing, and placing followers first. The league contains a roster of 48 Racers signed to compete in 4 annual Slams and consists of superstars like Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Gabby Thomas, Quincy Corridor, Josh Kerr, Marileidy Paulino, and lots of extra. These Racers compete towards 48 Challengers, who differ per Slam; every Slam options the most important and deepest prize purse within the historical past of the game. The inaugural Grand Slam Observe™ season in 2025 sees Slams happen in Kingston, Jamaica; Miami; Philadelphia; and Los Angeles. For extra info, go to grandslamtrack.com.
About Michael Johnson
Born in Dallas, Texas, Michael Johnson is a Corridor of Fame monitor and subject star, universally acknowledged as one of many best sprinters of all time. He received 4 Olympic gold medals and eight World Championships throughout his profession, and held world and Olympic information in each the 200m and 400m races. On the 1996 Olympic Video games in Atlanta, Johnson grew to become the primary and solely male athlete to win the Gold medal in each the 200m and 400m on the identical Olympics. Since retiring from lively competitors, Johnson has develop into a serial entrepreneur and investor, in addition to extremely wanted efficiency mindset speaker and an award successful tv commentator. Johnson has been a pundit for the BBC’s protection of each Olympics Video games since Athens 2004, and stays a key voice on, and advocate for the game. Johnson was inducted into the US Observe and Area Corridor of Fame in 2004.
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Full Biographies and Headshots of the Grand Slam Observe™ On-Air Expertise Roster:
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Steve is among the UK’s most well-known sporting people. As an athlete his profession was solid alongside Coe and Ovett to kind a interval of unprecedented success in British athletics and since retiring has develop into one of many BBC’s most revered Presenters / Commentators. In a profession spanning over three many years, since showing as a 17 yr outdated on the Commonwealth Video games in 1978, Steve’s many achievements embody six Gold medals on the Commonwealth Video games and the European and World Championships. Following an unbelievable season in 1983 Steve was voted BBC Sports activities Persona of the Yr, one of many few athletes to have received the award, and in 1986 he was awarded an MBE. On the 1984 Olympic Video games held in Los Angeles, Steve received a Silver medal within the 1500m behind Sebastian Coe. The next yr he broke World information within the 1500m, 2000m and Mile, all inside 19 days; the latter lasting nearly 9 years. Since retiring from aggressive athletics Steve has develop into a really profitable tv commentator, first with Eurosport, after which with Channel 4 earlier than becoming a member of the BBC because the Chief Athletics Commentator. Steve has co-presented each the Summer time and Winter Olympics since Sydney 2000. Most lately he offered the soundtrack for the London Olympic Video games, particularly Mo Farah’s beautiful 5K and 10K double gold performances. Steve has additionally been a daily contributor to BBC Radio 5 Dwell together with internet hosting common 606 and Sunday Sport. |
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Carrie was born and raised in Dawson, Minnesota the place she was a 13-time State Champion: eight in monitor and 5 in cross nation. Her 5 cross nation titles established a nationwide report for many consecutive titles, which nonetheless stands to at the present time. Carrie attended Villanova College, the place she was a 5-time NCAA Champion and the 1998 NCAA Indoor Observe Athlete of the yr. She was additionally the primary particular person in NCAA historical past to win each the 3K and 5K titles. In her publish collegiate profession, she was a 3 time nationwide champion and after successful the 1500m trials in 2004, she represented the US within the 2004 Olympic Video games in Athens, Greece. Along with her work on ESPN, NBC, and USATF.TV, she supplies common media protection for New York Street Runners together with the NYC Marathon and the NYC Half Marathon, and can be the principle analyst on the Boston Marathon, Chicago Marathon, Berlin Marathon, and has lined the Tokyo Marathon. Together with that, she works the NCAA Cross Nation, Foot Locker Cross Nation Nationals and was a member of the printed workforce for the 2024 Paris Olympic Video games. |
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Anson Henry CBC Producer/On-air Persona/Analyst (2014-2021) Government Director of The Observe & Area Community (current) Creator and Host of Dash Tradition (current) Athletic Achievements 2-Time Olympian (2004, 2008 – Canada) Pan-American silver and bronze medallist (4x100m, 100m) Commonwealth Video games bronze medallist (4x100m) 2-Time NCAA All-American (60m, 100m – Washington State College) |
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Radzi is certainly one of Britain’s most proficient and skilled tv presenters having began out his presenting profession on the BBC’s landmark youngsters’s present, Blue Peter. He has since gone on to be a daily face on our screens, presenting exhibits for the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Amazon and Eurosport. Radzi is a extremely educated sports activities presenter, reporting throughout the Olympics, Paralympics, athletics, tennis, Formulation E and basketball to call a number of. As certainly one of TNT’s main presenters Radzi travelled the world filming ‘Street To Beijing’ forward of the Winter Olympics the place he reported dwell from China in addition to internet hosting the channel’s Snooker protection. He additionally anchored the channel’s protection of the Paris Olympics in 2024. |
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Taliyah Brooks is a world-class monitor and subject athlete specializing within the Heptathlon. In the summertime of 2024, she proudly represented Workforce USA on the Paris Olympic Video games, showcasing her expertise on a world stage. With a historical past of prime finishes similar to NACAC Champion and NCAA Indoor Champion, Taliyah is a standout in her sport. Past athletics, Taliyah is keen about neighborhood service and youth impression via her position at VOICEINSPORT as a VIS Mentor, and advisor for Black Ladies Excellence, an area highschool group. Taliyah’s various abilities and fixed dedication to excellence make her a well-rounded and provoking particular person each on and off the monitor. |
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John Anderson joins Grand Slam Observe with 4 many years of journalism and sports activities broadcasting expertise. For 25 years Anderson hosted ESPN’s SportsCenter, the community’s signature information and knowledge program, successful 4 Emmy awards. Anderson offered Play-by-Play commentary and evaluation for monitor and subject on the final two Olympic Video games (Paris & Tokyo) for OBS, the worldwide broadcast arm of the IOC. He additionally co-hosted the Opening and Closing ceremonies for these summer season video games. In 2022 he lined subject occasions on the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon. Anderson, as he has for greater than a decade, continues to guide ESPN’s protection of collegiate monitor and subject engaged on all Southeastern Convention and NCAA cross nation, indoor and out of doors championships. He’s a 12-time host of the Bowerman Award, given yearly to essentially the most excellent males’s and ladies’s athlete in school monitor and subject. Anderson joined the school of the celebrated College of Missouri’s Journalism Faculty in January of 2025. He graduated from Mizzou in 1987. He was a 4-year member of the boys’s monitor workforce, competing within the excessive leap, and captained the squad his senior season. |
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Matt Centrowitz: 2016 Olympic Champion 2016 World Indoor Champion 2013 World Silver Medalist 2011 World Bronze Medalist 3x Olympian (2012, 2016, 2021) 7x US Champion 2011 NCAA Champion |
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Sanya Richards-Ross, four-time Olympic gold medalist, now serves as an NBC monitor & subject analyst, a Nike model ambassador, writer, TV character and entrepreneur. The present American Report Holder at 400 meters, Richards-Ross received particular person 400m Olympic gold on the 2012 London Video games and three 4x400m relay golds for Workforce USA in 2004, 2008, and 2012. As well as, she was a six-time world champion, incomes two particular person 400m titles and 4 as a member of successful 4x400m relay groups. |