Terry Leibel is a

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retired

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and former member of the

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. After her career as an equestrian athlete throughout the 1970s, Leibel was hired by CBC Sports as an equestrian sports analyst. She was the first woman to host a CBC

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broadcast. She left the CBC for TSN in 1984 where she was the first woman to host a national sports program, ''

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'', and worked there for two years before returning to the CBC. She became the first woman to co-host CBC Sports Olympic coverage during the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in

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. She also covered the 2002 and 2006 Winter Olympic Games and the

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. She earned Gemini Award nominations for her work in the Atlanta and Sydney Olympics and won a 2003 Gemini Award becoming the first female sports broadcaster to do so. She was also the first woman to do

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for the Olympics, handling

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, equestrian and white-water events for NBC Sports during the Summer Games in

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in 1992. Leibel announced her retirement on February 27, 2008. Her final assignment was at

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in June 2008.

References

Canadian female equestrians Canadian horse racing announcers Canadian television journalists Canadian Screen Award winners Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Canadian women television journalists Pan American Games medalists in equestrian Pan American Games silver medalists for Canada Equestrians at the 1979 Pan American Games Medalists at the 1979 Pan American Games {{Canada-journalist-stub