John Goodbody Author

John Goodbody worked for The Times and The Sunday Times from 1985 to 2019, receiving awards in every decade. These included Sports Reporter of The Year in 2001, winning the Sports Story of The Year in 2002 and being a member of The Sunday Times Sports Team of the Year in 2012. He has reported fourteen Summer Olympic Games. In 1991, aged 48, he became the oldest Briton for eighteen years to swim the Channel and, in 2023, he celebrated his 80th birthday by completing the annual race across the Bosphorus