Former BBC athletics commentator Paul Dickenson has died on the age of 74.
Dickenson, a two-time Olympic hammer thrower, specialised in athletics and sliding sports activities for over twenty years with BBC Sport.
He commentated on each Summer season and Winter Olympic Video games between 1992 and 2014.
It was Dickenson’s voice that accompanied Jessica Ennis-Hill’s heptathlon gold at London 2012, whereas his final BBC commentary was when Lizzy Yarnold received her skeleton gold at Sochi 2014.
Dickenson is one in every of solely 5 BBC commentators to name Group GB gold medals in each the Summer season and Winter Olympics.
Head of BBC Sport Content material, Philip Bernie, stated: “Paul was a beautiful broadcaster and a very beautiful man.
“His nice voice captured and enhanced among the very largest moments in British sport, together with his very good commentary at each summer season and winter Olympics.
“All our condolences and ideas are along with his household and mates.”
As an athlete, Dickenson achieved a 14th-place end within the hammer throw on the 1976 Summer season Olympics in Montreal, earlier than competing 4 years later in Moscow.
He additionally represented England on the 1978 and 1982 Commonwealth Video games.
Dickenson handed away at dwelling on Tuesday.
