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Paloma del Río
Birth Name:Paloma del Río Cañadas
Birth Date:4 April 1960
Birth Place:Madrid, Spain
Occupation:Journalist
Employer:Televisión Española
Awards:Royal Order of Sports Merit (2015)
Alma Mater:Complutense University of Madrid

Paloma del Río Cañadas (born 4 April 1960) is a Spanish journalist. She covers rhythmic gymnastics, artistic gymnastics, figure skating, and equestrian competitions for Televisión Española (TVE). She has held various positions in TVE's sports directorate – editor-in-chief (2009), director of sports programs (2009–2013), and currently coordinator of sponsorships and federations.

She has covered several European and World Championships, as well as eight Summer and six Winter Olympic Games. In 2015 she was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Order of Sports Merit, and that same year, she published her autobiographical book Enredando en la memoria (Tangled in Memory).

She is considered part of the generation of pioneering women in Spanish sports journalism, along with Mari Carmen Izquierdo, Mercedes Milá, María Antonia Martínez, Elena Sánchez Caballero, Olga Viza, Mari Cruz Esteban, and María Escario.[1]

Biography

Paloma del Río was born in Madrid in 1960.[2] After completing the Baccalaureate, she took a clinical assistant course and began to work on the night shift of the intensive care unit of the Ruber Clinic in Madrid to pay for her studies.[2] In her free time, she continued with Curso de Orientación Universitaria (COU) studies, and majored in journalism at the Complutense University of Madrid without leaving work. She finished her degree with the second best record, so in 1986, she was able to choose a scholarship from the to do internships in television, in the sports section of the news. After a few months, she passed some exams that allowed her to maintain her position at TVE.

After a reorganization of the information services, she began to carry out sports broadcasts, the first of which was a table tennis match in Seville. The following month, in June 1987, she covered the Spanish Rhythmic Gymnastics Individual Championships for La 2 from Palma de Mallorca (replacing Maria Escario, who began to present newscasts). After this she was a commentator for similar events, such as the World Championships, the European Championships, the World Cup (2016–2018), and the (2017). Later, she also began to cover artistic gymnastics (replacing Olga Viza, who left to present in Barcelona). From 1988 to 1989, del Río was deputy director of Domingo Deporte. After a time she also began to broadcast equestrian events, and beginning in 1994, figure skating. Throughout the years, she has commentated alongside former practitioners of these sports, such as José Novillo on broadcasts of artistic gymnastics, and Susana Mendizábal, Maisa Lloret, María Martín, and Almudena Cid on rhythmic gymnastics.[3]

From 2005 to 2008, she was editor of the program Olímpicos. ADO 2008, and later was the editor of broadcasts of the Beijing Olympics.[4] [5] In September 2011 she and María Escario were awarded the Silver Medal of the Royal Order of Sports Merit by the Consejo Superior de Deportes (CSD).[6]

On 31 August 2015, she was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Order of Sports Merit, becoming the first journalist to receive it.[7] On 16 November of that year, she presented her book of sports and personal memories, Enredando en la memoria, at CSD headquarters, where she also received her Gold Medal.[7] In June 2017, she was the ambassador of the Pride Games.[8] Since 17 September 2017, she has contributed a sports segment to the program on Radio Nacional de España.[9] She has been a speaker at many conferences, round tables, and presentations on topics such as Women and Sport, Minority Sports, and Olympism.

In July 2018, her candidacy for the presidency of RTVE was announced, although in December, she did not pass the final cut and was left out of the list of the 20 candidates to preside over the public entity. Subsequently, she and other excluded candidates filed an appeal against this decision, still pending resolution by lawyers of the Congress.[10]

Personal life

Paloma del Río is openly lesbian.[1] In June 2015, she appeared on the list of the 50 most influential homosexuals in Spain, prepared by El Mundos La Otra Crónica.[11] During WorldPride Madrid 2017 she explained in an interview that "I never thought that I should be ashamed to be a lesbian" and indicated that Martina Navratilova had been a role model for her.[12]

Awards and recognitions

Publications

She has also written the prologue of El origen del deporte femenino en España (2015) by Jorge García García,[22] and the epilogue of Nosotras. Historias del olvidado deporte femenino (2018) by .

Filmography

YearTitleCharacterNotesDirector
2016La satisfacción es para siempreHerself (voice)Short promotional documentary from FreixenetJorge Palomar
2018Herself (voice)Short documentaryCarlos Agulló
2019HerselfDocumentaryBeatriz Carretero

Notes and References

  1. News: 'No creo que Del Bosque le diga a Ramos "sé un hombre y ponme un gin tonic"' . 'I Don't Believe That Del Bosque Told Ramos "Be a Man and Give Me a Gin and Tonic"' . Clara . Ferrero . . Spanish . 2015-06-30 . 2019-06-14.
  2. Paloma del Río: 'Vivir el deporte es la mejor manera de comunicarlo' . Paloma del Río: 'Living Sports is the Best Way to Communicate It' . Carlos . de Matesanz . KANE 3 . 9 . Spanish . June 2006 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160423185251/http://www.kane3.es/television/paloma-del-rio-vivir-el-deporte-es-la-mejor-manera-de-comunicarlo.php . 2016-04-23 . dead . 2019-06-14.
  3. Web site: Entrevista. Paloma del Río: 'El Olimpismo es lo más grande que he podido vivir' . Interview. Paloma del Río: 'Olympism is the Greatest Thing I've Ever Been Able to Experience' . Álvaro Alonso . Filgueira . . Spanish . 2014-10-02 . 2019-06-14.
  4. Web site: Perfil . Profile . RTVE Blogs . Spanish . https://web.archive.org/web/20091022134154/http://blogs.rtve.es/usuarios/paloma-del-rio . 2009-10-22 . dead . 2019-06-14.
  5. Paloma del Río: 'Los derechos de deportes nunca son rentables para las televisiones. Está sobredimensionado' . Paloma del Río: 'Sports Rights are Never Profitable for Television. It is Oversized.' . Fernando . Olalquiaga . JotDown . Spanish . 2012-02-18 . 2019-06-14.
  6. News: María Escario y Paloma del Río, de TVE, Medalla de Plata del Mérito Deportivo . María Escario and Paloma del Río, from TVE, Silver Medal for Sports Merit . . Madrid . Spanish . 2011-09-02 . 2019-06-14.
  7. News: Paloma del Río recibe la medalla de oro de la Real Orden del Mérito Deportivo . Paloma del Río Receives the Gold Medal of the Royal Order of Sports Merit . . EFE . Madrid . Spanish . 2015-11-16 . 2019-06-14.
  8. News: La periodista Paloma del Río será embajadora de los Juegos del Orgullo 2017 . The Journalist Paloma del Río to Be the Ambassador of the 2017 Pride Games . . EFE . Madrid . Spanish . 2017-06-07 . 2019-06-14.
  9. Web site: No es un día cualquiera – Paloma del Río . . Spanish . 2017-09-17 . 2019-06-14.
  10. News: Paloma del Río, la mítica voz del deporte, candidata a presidenta de RTVE: 'Tenemos que volver a ser referencia' . Paloma del Río, the Legendary Voice of Sport, Candidate for President of RTVE: 'We Have to Be a Reference Again' . Vanesa . Rodríguez . M. . Méndez . eldiario.es Vertele . Spanish . 2018-07-30 . 2019-06-14.
  11. News: Paloma del Río: 'Los deportistas gays se quedan en la retaguardia' . Paloma del Río: 'Gay Sportspeople are Left Behind' . José Luis . Romo . . Spanish . 2015-06-27 . 2019-06-14.
  12. Web site: 'Nunca pensé que tuviera que avergonzarme por ser lesbiana' . 'I Never Thought That I Should Be Ashamed to Be a Lesbian' . Javier J. . Bas . . Madrid . Spanish . 2017-06-27 . 2019-06-14.
  13. News: La periodista de TVE Paloma del Río, premiada por la Asociación Internacional de Periodistas Deportivos . The TVE Journalist Paloma del Río, Awarded by the International Association of Sports Journalists . . Madrid . Spanish . 2012-08-02 . 2019-06-14.
  14. News: La Carrera de la Mujer Madrid 2014 vestirá de corto a 30.000 runners femeninas . The 2014 Madrid Women's Race to Dress 30,000 Women Runners . . Spanish . 2014-04-29 . 2019-06-14.
  15. Web site: Paloma del Río, de TVE, Premio de Prensa, Radio y Televisión del Ayuntamiento de Cornellà de Llobregat . Paloma del Río, of TVE, Press, Radio, and Television Award from the City Council of Cornellà de Llobregat . . Spanish . 2014-06-05 . 2019-06-14.
  16. Web site: Los I Premios Mujer, Deporte y Empresa reconocen el trabajo femenino . 1st Women, Sports, and Business Awards Recognize Women's Work . . Spanish . 2015-11-12 . 2019-06-14 . 25 October 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191025193131/http://www.juntaex.es/comunicacion/noticia%26idPub%3D17810#.VluwQF4vxCQ . dead .
  17. Web site: Paloma del Río, Premio Juan Manuel Gonzalo del COE . Spanish Academy of Television Arts and Sciences . Spanish . 2015-12-16 . 2019-06-14 . 30 July 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180730234915/http://www.academiatv.es/paloma-del-rio-premio-juan-manuel-gonzalo-del-coe/#.W1957WT7QfE . dead .
  18. Web site: HRH Prince Albert of Monaco to join celebration of AIPS Journalists on the Podium . Sonja . Nikcevic . International Association of Sports Journalists . Rio de Janeiro . 2016-08-07 . 2019-06-14.
  19. Web site: Onda Deportiva Almería . . Spanish . 2016-11-04 . 2019-06-14.
  20. News: La prensa deportiva de Segovia celebró la Gala del Deporte . The Segovian Sports Press Celebrates the Sports Gala . Segovia al día . Spanish . 2017-02-04 . 2019-06-14.
  21. Web site: La X gala 'Baeza por la Diversidad' se celebrará el sábado 22 de septiembre a las 21.00h en el Teatro Montemar . The 10th 'Baeza for Diversity' Gala to be Celebrated Saturday 22 September at 21:00h at the Teatro Montemar . . Spanish . 2018-09-14 . 2019-06-14 . 23 September 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180923052632/http://www.baeza.es/baeza/extranet/noticiasdetalle?al_idioma_pk=1&inicio=1&al_men_pk=&as_ruta_men_pk=&al_suscripcion=0&al_not_pk=2429&al_tipo_pk=1 . dead .
  22. Web site: El origen del deporte femenino en España . Jorge García García . Spanish . 2019-06-15.

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