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The Quite Remarkable David Coleman BBC2 9.00pm On April 26, 1926, David Coleman was born in Cheshire, and by 1954 he moved to Birmingham where he became a news assistant and sports editor for the BBC.
On the day that Roger Bannister broke the four minute mile, Coleman made his TV debut and following a stint as Sports Editor for BBC Midlands he landed the job of frontman for the BBC's Saturday sport show Grandstand. He spent a decade hosting that show, and also fronted BBC's Sports Review of the Year, Sportsnight with Coleman and commentated on 11 Olympic Games, from Rome in 1960 to Sydney in 2000. There's also the little matter of covering six world cups as commentator.See the full content of this document
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