''Trans World Sport'' (TWS), originally stylised ''Transworld Sport'' (still used in some television listings and electronic programme guides) is a

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-orientated

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me produced by

IMG Media IMG, originally known as the International Management Group, is a global sports, events and talent management company headquartered in New York City. It has been owned by Endeavor since 2013. Trans World International (TWI) is an event and pro ...

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, England. It is shown worldwide, on a variety of syndicated television channels. It is the world's longest running weekly international television sports programme, and has been in continuous production every week since . Today, it is shown over fifty countries, with a household reach of nearly two-hundred million. For over 25 years, ''Trans World Sport'' has brought the top names and events, together with off-beat and esoteric stories from the world of sport. The show was the brainchild of IMG founder, and sports marketing pioneer,

Mark McCormack Mark Hume McCormack (November 6, 1930 – May 16, 2003) was an American lawyer, sports agent and writer. He was the founder and chairman of International Management Group, now IMG, an international management organization serving sports ...

. Since its very first show, ''Trans World Sport's'' objective has remained the same; to bring its viewers the best, the most interesting, and most informative stories from the world of sport. Their mantra has always been that there is no hierarchy in sport, and the idea is that what happens in

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has always been as important as what happens at the Sepak Takraw World Championship. They have had features on several sports stars, including a 16 year-old Carlos Alcaraz, a 14-year-old

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, a teenage

Virat Kohli Virat Kohli (; born 5 November 1988) is an Indian international cricketer and former captain of the India national cricket team. Widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen of all time, Kohli plays as a right-handed Batting (cricket), batte ...

Usain Bolt Usain St. Leo Bolt, , (; born 21 August 1986) is a retired Jamaican sprinter, widely considered to be the greatest sprinter of all time. He is the world record holder in the 100 metres, 200 metres, and 4 × 100 metres relay. An eight- ...

, and

Roger Federer Roger Federer (; born 8 August 1981) is a Swiss former professional tennis player. He was ranked List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players#Weeks at No. 1, world No. 1 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 310 weeks, in ...

, and on a 12-year-old

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and her 11-year-old sister,

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. ''Trans World Sport'' has covered hundreds of different sports, and filmed with a countless number of World and

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s. Out of the 203

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(IOC) member nations, they have been to 183 of them; including

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and

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, while in 2012, they even filmed in

Somalia Somalia, , Osmanya script: 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒕𐒖; ar, الصومال, aṣ-Ṣūmāl officially the Federal Republic of SomaliaThe ''Federal Republic of Somalia'' is the country's name per Article 1 of thProvisional Constituti ...

. The first show was narrated by

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, and after a succession of different narrators in the early nineties, the show settled on its current narrator:

Sue Carpenter Sue Carpenter (born 17 May 1956 in London, England) is a United Kingdom former newsreader and television presenter. She graduated in English Literature and Icelandic at King's College London in 1977. After presenting regional BBC news programme ...

. Bruce Hammal narrated the programme between 1989 and 2017.

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