Tom Fordyce is a British sports journalist and author.[1] He wrote text commentaries on cricket and tennis, also writing features on various other sports and blogging from a number of different events.[2]
Fordyce graduated from Girton College, Cambridge in 1992 with a degree in Geography,[3][4] and started his career as a features writer on Total Sport magazine and as a writer on the Sported magazine.[5]
In 2007 he "blogged my way round the Rugby World Cup in a camper van" with BBC colleague Ben Dirs. He drove 4,500 miles around France whilst producing written and video diaries of the matches and interactions they had during the 44-day tournament.[5] In 2008 he covered the Beijing Olympics on a number of different sports. His contributions for the Olympics also included experiments to observe how well he could run in the Beijing smog, and he also "road tested" the new Speedo swimsuit for "groinal roominess".[6]
In June 2009 Fordyce published his first book entitled We Could Be Heroes: One Van, Two Blokes and Twelve World Championships with Dirs, charting the madcap escapades that resulted from trying to become the world champion in something.[7][8] Fordyce was the ghostwriter of Peter Crouch's book, How to Be a Footballer[9] and Geraint Thomas's book, The World of Cycling According to G.[10] He was co-host of That Peter Crouch Podcast, with Peter Crouch and Chris Stark.[11] He is also co-host of the history podcast "We Didn't Start the Fire" with Katie Puckrik and the Joe Marler Show with Rugby Player Joe Marler. [12]
In June 2020, Fordyce left his post as chief sports writer at the BBC to “take up an opportunity in podcasting”.[1]
^ ab"BBC's chief sports writer leaving after two decades". Prolific North. 1 June 2020. Retrieved 25 January 2022.
^"Live blogging Big Brother: A new take on journalism or mindless rubbish?". Press Gazette. 11 June 2007. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 7 June 2014.
^The Year- The Annual Review of Girton College 2016-17, Cambridge University Press, 2017, p. 4
^"Fiction and non-fiction from Girtonian authors". Girton College, Cambridge. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
^ abFordyce, Tom (1 March 2008). "About Tom Fordyce". BBC. Retrieved 26 December 2009.
^Fordyce, Tom (16 October 2008). "Olympics Blog". BBC. Retrieved 26 December 2009.
^We Could Be Heroes: One Van, Two Blokes and Twelve World Championships (paperback ed.). Pan Macmillan. 2009. p. 256. ISBN 978-0230736153.
^We Could Be Heroes (Unabridged ed.). Pan Macmillan. 2010. p. 320. ISBN 978-0330517386.
^"How to be a Footballer by Peter Crouch". NBMagazine. 20 February 2019. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
^Thomas, Geraint (2015). The world of cycling according to G. Tom Fordyce. London. ISBN 978-1-78429-636-0. OCLC 928402224.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^"That Peter Crouch Podcast". BBC. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
^"We Didn't Start the Fire: The History Podcast". Apple Podcasts. 25 January 2021.
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