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Former BBC athletics commentator Paul Dickenson has died at the age of 74.<\/b><\/p>\n
Dickenson, a two-time Olympic hammer thrower, specialised in athletics and sliding sports for over two decades with BBC Sport.<\/p>\n
He commentated on every Summer and Winter Olympic Games between 1992 and 2014.<\/p>\n
It was Dickenson’s voice that accompanied Jessica Ennis-Hill’s heptathlon gold at London 2012, while his last BBC commentary was when Lizzy Yarnold won her skeleton gold at Sochi 2014.<\/p>\n
Dickenson is one of only five BBC commentators to call Team GB gold medals in both the Summer and Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n
Head of BBC Sport Content, Philip Bernie, said: “Paul was a wonderful broadcaster and a really lovely man.<\/p>\n
“His great voice captured and enhanced some of the very biggest moments in British sport, including his superb commentary at both summer and winter Olympics.<\/p>\n
“All our condolences and thoughts are with his family and friends.”<\/p>\n
As an athlete, Dickenson achieved a 14th-place finish in the hammer throw at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, before competing four years later in Moscow. <\/p>\n
He also represented England at the 1978 and 1982 Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n
Dickenson passed away at home on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n