Amanda Davies is the daughter of sports journalist and sports administrator David Davies.
11 Facts About Amanda Davies
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Amanda Davies was educated from the age of five to nine at Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls in Elstree, Hertfordshire, before the family moved to the Midlands, where she continued her education at King Edward VI High School for Girls in Edgbaston, Birmingham.
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Amanda Davies graduated from St Edmund Hall, Oxford, in 2001 with a degree in geography, where she won the Philip Geddes Memorial Prize for journalism.
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Amanda Davies joined Sky Sports News and worked in several positions, including assistant news editor, presenter and on-the-road producer, most notably spending seven weeks in Berlin producing the Sky Sports News coverage of the 2006 FIFA World Cup from Germany.
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Amanda Davies was an occasional reporter, making her presenting debut on Sky Sports News with Ian Payne in 2005.
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Amanda Davies was a regular presenter of sports bulletins on the BBC News Channel, BBC World News, and Breakfast on BBC One, as well as the sports bulletins on the BBC 1 weekend news.
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Amanda Davies was a regular presenter of the BBC Sport's Your News, travelling around the country to a different location every week, telling viewers' stories.
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On 27 March 2012, CNN confirmed that Amanda Davies would join their team of sports presenters from April.
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Amanda Davies is the main sports anchor on CNN, and hosts daily sports news show World Sport, as well as monthly F1 show The Circuit.
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Amanda Davies has fronted CNN's coverage of all the major international sports events since joining, including the Olympics in London 2012, Sochi 2014, Rio 2016 and Pyeongchang 2018; the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, 2016 European Championships in France and the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.
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Amanda Davies is an Ambassador for Sparks, and supporter of Bliss.