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Mark
Lee
Familiar
to CBC Sports viewers as the host of THE CFL ON CBC, Mark
Lee actually began his broadcasting career in radio.
Born
in Ottawa, the Carleton University graduate worked at CKOY-CKBY
FM while attaining his degree in journalism. He then headed
to Montreal as a news anchor at CFCF radio in Montreal. Lee
moved on to become a national sports reporter at CBC Radio
in Toronto, where he hosted the acclaimed sports magazine
series The Inside Track. Lee's documentary reporting earned
him two Foster Hewitt Awards as Best Sportscaster.
Lee
has reported on a variety of sports stories. Most recently,
Lee covered Women's Hockey at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games.
At the Sydney 2000 Olympic Summer Games both beach and indoor
volleyball after performing the same task at the 1999 Pan
Am Games in Winnipeg. In 1999, he reported on the International
Olympic Committee bribery scandal in a full-edition documentary
on The National Magazine.
Lee
has handled cycling commentary for CBC Sports at the Commonwealth
Games in Malaysia and called the women's hockey action at
the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics. In addition, he has covered
volleyball at the Atlanta Summer Olympics in 1996, as well
as the Donovan Bailey-Michael Johnson showdown in 1996.
Lee's
television breakthrough came in 1991 when he was assigned
to follow Michael Smith, the defending Commonwealth Games
decathlon champion. In 1994, he won a Gemini Award for The
Spirit of the Game, a three-part documentary on hockey.
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