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Politicizing the podium
- March 8, 2010 11:11 AM
- By Tom Harrington
Politics and sport in Canada make strange bedfellows but that doesn't mean they can't share a room.
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- Tom Harrington A 4-time Gemini nominee for best sports host, Tom Harrington is sports correspondent for CBC News, reporting for THE NATIONAL…Canada’s only network news reporter who covers sports stories and issues. He can also be heard as guest host on CBC Radio’s The WORLD AT SIX, THE CURRENT, AS IT HAPPENS, and CROSS-COUNTRY CHECK-UP. Harrington's been a member of the CBC SPORTS broadcast crew at the Olympic Games in Atlanta, Nagano and Sydney as well as the 1994 and 1998 Commonwealth Games. He covered the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg for Newsworld and joined the CBC NEWS team for the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City, the 2004 Games in Athens, the Winter Olympics in Turin in 2006 and was in Beijing for the 2008 Summer Games.
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