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'' Director of Sport. He was previously the sports editor of ''

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'' newspapers, and the editor-in-chief of ''

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Early life and education

Kay-Jelski was educated at

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, and then graduated with an MA in French and Spanish at the

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in 2007.

Views on fairness in women's sports

In March 2019, Kay-Jelski wrote a column for The Times in which he expressed the view that transgender women (biological males) competing in women’s sports was "not a huge problem".

Career

Kay-Jelski began his career as a graduate trainee and sub-editor at the ''Daily Mail'' in 2007. He was promoted to deputy sports news editor in 2009 before being named sports editor in 2015- the first openly gay man in such a role. He left the ''Mail'' less than a year later to become sports editor at ''The Times''. Key-Jelski was recruited in June 2019 to join the startup US sports website ''The Athletic.'' He has also appeared on ''Sky Sports'' and ''TalkSport'' radio. In April 2024, Kay-Jelski was announced as the new ''BBC'' Director of Sport, replacing Barbara Slater.

References

External links

Alex Kay-Jelski on Twitter
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