[1] He wrote text commentaries on cricket and tennis, also writing features on various other sports and blogging from a number of different events.
[5] In 2007 he "blogged my way round the Rugby World Cup in a camper van" with BBC colleague Ben Dirs.
He drove 4,500 miles around France whilst producing written and video diaries of the matches and interactions they had during the 44-day tournament.
His contributions for the Olympics also included experiments to observe how well he could run in the Beijing smog, and he also "road tested" the new Speedo swimsuit for "groinal roominess".
[12] In June 2020, Fordyce left his post as chief sports writer at the BBC to “take up an opportunity in podcasting”.