Rouleur longreads: Top Table with Orla Chennaoui
Four doyennes of the cycling world share their past experiences and their visions for the future. Lizzie Deignan, Fran Millar and Monica Santini in conversation with Orla Chennaoui.
MONICA SANTINI
Monica is CEO of Santini SMS, the eponymous cycling clothing company founded by her father Pietro in Together with her sister Paola, Monica oversees production of over 3, garments per day from their headquarters in Bergamo, exporting worldwide. The company has provided leaders’ jerseys for many races over the decades, including the Giro d’Italia’s maglia rosa, and continues to supply team kit for the likes of Trek-Segafredo and the Slovakian and Australian national squads.
FRAN MILLAR
Fran was with Team Sky prior to its inception in , project managing with Dave Brailsford, and rose to the role of CEO at Team Ineos in She recently moved on to become CEO of motorcycle-cum-fashion brand Belstaff. Fran’s brother is the former racer David Millar.
LIZZIE DEIGNAN
Formerly Armitstead, the most frequently misspelt surname in cycling, Lizzie was world road race champion in , alongside a host of one-day Classics and stage race victorie
Orla Chennaoui is a multilingual TV sports presenter (French, Dutch, German, Spanish, Italian & Portuguese), event host and journalist with experience working in both hard news and sport.
As a Lead Presenter for both TNT Sports and Discovery/Eurosport/GCN, Orla works across cycling, rugby, MotoGP and the Olympics amongst other things.
Orla has presented cycling on location from multiple Tours de France, Giros d'Italia and Vuelta a Espana, three Olympic Games (London, Rio and Tokyo) and one Commonwealth Games (Glasgow), and currently presents all Grand Tours and significant races from The Cube - a high tech studio in London.
During the winter season, Orla presents rugby on TNT Sports, bringing the fan pitch side and close to the action, alongside legendary pundits of the game such as Lawrence Dallaglio.
A background in news and investigations has dictated a generally hard-news approach in Orla's sports reporting, while through presenting she has gained a wealth of experience and knowledge across a broad range of sports.
In May Orla joined Eurosport as the lead presenter for their cycling coverage alongside Si
More About Orla Chennaoui
In her spare time, Orla Chennaoui is a skilled yoga practitioner (a Yogi) and a keen cyclist. She also passed her ARDA National B racing licence test and is a qualified racing driver.
MEDIA
Orla has anchored sporting programmes for a range of television channels. She started at ITV Meridian, before moving to the STV Group, reporting on morning bulletins, and afternoon and nightly shows. In she moved to Sky, a channel she would stay with until for nearly 15 years.
She started as a news correspondent for Sky News, before becoming their cycling presenter and correspondent. She has been involved in all of Sky’s cycling coverage from , covering nine Tour de France’s, two Giros d’Italia, two Tours Down Under, the annual tour of Britain, several Road World Championships, and the London Track World Championships. She also reported on the London and Rio Olympic Games.
In she became their Sky Sports presenter, hosting a number of sporting shows, carrying out live interviews, and breaking big sporting stories. Throughout her time at Sky, she was also a contributor to their sister channel, Germany Sky Sport News.
Leaving Sky in , Orla joined Eurosport, predom
Tour de France: Who is Eurosport presenter Orla Chennaoui?
Orla Chennaoui is currently leading Eurosportâ&#;&#;s coverage of the Tour de France, but how much do you know about the sports presenter? The year-old has been part of the stationâ&#;&#;s coverage of cycling events since and has been working in the journalism industry for more than two decades.Â
Background
Chennaoui was born in Draperston, County Londonderry, in Northern Ireland.Â
Initially, Chennaoui undertook an undergraduate degree in Law and French at Queenâ&#;&#;s Belfast University, before moving to Edinburgh to complete a postgraduate diploma in journalism at Napier University.
The presenter worked in print journalism at first, spending time with Scotland on Sunday and the Edinburgh Evening News.Â
Her first job in broadcasting came at 2 Ten FM, a local radio station in Berkshire, and she later joined Sky News as their Northern Ireland correspondent in Â
Chennaoui did have ambitions to become a war correspondent but found the requirements of the job too difficult.
After covering the Olympics for Sky in , Chennaoui deci
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