Gerard Whateley

[3] Whateley travelled to Royal Ascot in 2012 to call Australia's racehorse Black Caviar win the Diamond Jubilee Stakes and wrote a book on the horse's career.

[6] Television career Whateley was a foundation member of the Network 10 AFL commentary team when the broadcast rights were secured in 2001.

In the middle of the 2010 season, Fox Footy premiered AFL 360, which featured Whateley as co-host alongside Herald Sun Chief Football Writer Mark Robinson.

In 2024, SEN and Fox Footy released Whateley on loan to Nine Network to call the Athletics at the Paris Olympic Games.

Over the next 14 years he would call every major sport in Australia from Australian Open tennis, to President's Cup golf to A-League Grand Finals alongside Ange Postecoglou.

[10] Principally Whateley led the Grandstand AFL coverage, called the Melbourne Cup from 2008, took on the ABC's remodelled Test Cricket coverage from 2015, and covered three Olympic Games in Beijing, London and Rio where Whateley called Kyle Chalmers's gold medal victory in the 100 metres freestyle in the pool.