Ankier is currently a television host for BT Sport Boxing & reporter for Amazon Prime Video on football as well as covering four Olympic Games for ESPN and Olympic Channel News.A champion of sustainability, Jo is also the presenter of the E1 Series electric powerboat racing and occasional presenter of Extreme E Electric RallyCross racing.
Ankier covered match days and weekly news for Premier League's international audience during the 2019/2020 season interviewing players and managers such as Ndombele, Frank Lampard, Unai Emery, Virgil Van Dyk on a regular basis.
Ankier has covered four Olympic Games as host and reporter (2021, 2016, 2012, 2004) and has been a long time contributor to ESPN in Los Angeles for whom she covered both the London 2012 Olympics as well as Rio2016 amongst other regular year-round event sports coverage reporting for the international versions of their flagship show Sportscenter on NBA, soccer, tennis, boxing, sailing and hosting live events such as the ESPY awards and X Games.
In 2016, she joined Atlanta Braves shortstop Chase Darnaud and father / son duo Clayton and Sebastian Cages to form country rock and roll group, The Chasedarnaud band.
[4] In 2005, she set the British record for the women's 3000 metre steeplechase with a time of 9 minutes 50 seconds, at the Naimette-Xhovémont track in Liège, Belgium on 20 July.
In 2011, Ankier hosted ESPN International's global red carpet show for the prestigious ESPY awards airing across the Europe, Caribbean and Pacific Rim regions.