One of the most emblematic faces in the history of Radio Televisión Española is about to leave the microphones forever. The journalist Paloma del Río will retire on September 5, after more than 37 years of professional career in the corporation.
The presenter is one of the fundamental pillars of the public channel in the broadcasting of minority sports. So her farewell could not be other than narrating the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Cup, which will take place in Valencia between August 23 and 27. This very important event will bring together many of the key figures in rhythmic gymnastics worldwide. Many of them will fight to get a place in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
The voice of Paloma del Río has become an emblem for thousands of viewers who have enjoyed the last sixteen Olympic Games on the public channel. And it is that the presenter was in charge of narrating the main gymnastics, skating and horse riding tests. She has also been in charge of giving voice to the world and European championships since 1986.
Her early foray into sports reporting on the public channel made her one of the pioneering women in sports journalism in Spain. She has also been one of the great fighters and defenders of women's and minority sports. But Paloma del Río has not only been present at different sporting events. The journalist she collaborated on Radio Nacional de España and RTVE Play, where she carried out her latest project, I no longer want to hide, an original production where the LGTBIQ reality in Spanish sport was analyzed.
The successful professional career of Paloma del Río has been recognized by the general public and has led her to win numerous awards in the sector, such as the Silver and Gold Medals of the Royal Order of Sports Merit of the Higher Sports Council, two awards Ondas or the Television Academy Talent Award.
"I don't think it's the last broadcast," the journalist told RTVE. "As for the personal, a certain longing is inevitable: there is a day that you start and another in which you finish and now I look back and see everything I have done, the hours of transmission of many sports that remain in the file with my voice and I get chills. We'll see how I am on Sunday the 27th, but I am grateful and happy with everything that I have carried in my backpack for almost four decades,'' the presenter confessed.
