Tomasz Smokowski | |
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| Born | Tomasz Wojciech Smokowski [1] May 25, 1973 [2] |
| Nationality | Polish |
| Occupation | Journalist |
Tomasz Wojciech Smokowski (born 25 May 1973) is a Polish journalist and sports commentator.
Tomasz Smokowski | |
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| Smokowski in 2007 | |
| Born | Tomasz Wojciech Smokowski [1] May 25, 1973 [2] |
| Nationality | Polish |
| Occupation | Journalist |
Tomasz Wojciech Smokowski (born 25 May 1973) is a Polish journalist and sports commentator.
In the years 1995–2017 he was a journalist for the Canal+ station. At that time, he was associated mainly with the duo with Andrzej Twarowski, with whom he ran the Liga+ Extra program. Winner of two Football Oscars for Best Television Commentator (2002, 2005). [2]
In 2002, Tomasz Smokowski directed the film "W kadrze - Korea 2002", about the backstage of the Polish national football team's participation in the 2002 FIFA World Cup, for which he received the second prize at the International Sports Film Festival in Milan in the reportage category. [2] In 2011, together with Andrzej Twarowski, he was nominated for an award in the student MediaTory poll in the AkumulaTOR category. From November 2011 to June 2014, Smokowski was the director of the sports editorial office nc+. [4] From September 2018 to January 2020, he was a commentator at Polsat Sport. [5]
Together with Mateusz Borek, Michał Pol and Krzysztof Stanowski, he creates (from March 2020) the Kanał Sportowy on YouTube. [6] In the years 2020–2021 he was the president of the company's management board. [7] On 20 November 2020, the director of the Canal+ sports editorial office, Michał Kołodziejczyk announced on Twitter that Smokowski is returning to the above-mentioned station and would comment on one Ligue 1 match in each matchday. [7] In 2021, he was also an expert commenting on some UEFA Euro 2020 matches in the studio of Telewizja Polska. [8]
In 2021, he became the ambassador of the "Badaj jajka" campaign, which encourages regular test of the testicles to enable early cancer detection. [9]
He is married and has two sons. In his free time, he runs marathons, trains boxing, plays tennis and paddle. In April 2019, in an interview with Onet, he admitted to his struggle with depression. [10]
Telewizja Polska S.A., also known in English as Polish Television, is a state media corporation in Poland, founded in 1952. It is the oldest and largest Polish television network, although viewership has been declining in the 2010s.
Disco polo is a genre of popular dance music, created in Poland in the 1980s. It was initially known as sidewalk music or backyard music. This genre, being a kind of Polish urban folk music, had great popularity in the 1990s, peaking in 1995–1997, then gradually declining in popularity through the early 21st century. The genre then had a resurgence in the winter of 2007. The Polish PWN dictionary defines the genre as a Polish variant of disco music, with simple melodies and often ribald lyrics. The service Rate Your Music defines disco polo as a Polish variant of dance-pop.
Poland participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 with the song "Czarna dziewczyna" written by Łukasz Lazer, Michał Szymański and Ivan Komarenko. The song was performed by Ivan and Delfin. In December 2004, the Polish broadcaster Telewizja Polska (TVP) announced that the Polish entry for the 2005 contest in Kyiv, Ukraine would be selected through an internal selection. "Czarna dziewczyna" performed by Ivan and Delfin was announced as the Polish entry on 29 January 2005 during the TVP1 programme Stratosfera.
Wojciech Kowalczyk is a Polish retired footballer who played as a striker, currently working as a football expert.
Artur Dariusz Orzech is a Polish journalist, radio and television presenter and music broadcaster.
TVP Rozrywka is a Polish free-to-air television channel. It was launched on 15 April 2013 and focuses its programming on entertainment TV series.
The Voice of Poland began airing 6 September 2014 on TVP 2.
Edmund Janniger was a short-time adviser to the Minister of National Defence of Poland Antoni Macierewicz in late 2015. Then 19, he was the youngest ministerial adviser in Poland’s history.
Presidential elections were held in Poland on 28 June 2020. As no candidate received a majority of the vote, a second round was held on 12 July, in which incumbent president Andrzej Duda, running with the support of Law and Justice, faced off against Civic Platform vice-chairman and Mayor of Warsaw Rafał Trzaskowski. Results from the second round of voting, announced by the National Electoral Commission (PKW) on 13 July, indicated that Andrzej Duda had won with 51.03% compared to Rafał Trzaskowski's 48.97%.
Tomasz Sekielski is a Polish journalist and novelist, author of reportages and documentary films, including Tell No One, a 2019 documentary about child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in Poland, that sparked a nationwide discussion.
Events during the year 2020 in Poland.
Paweł Adamowicz, sitting mayor of Gdańsk, Poland, was fatally stabbed on 13 January 2019, during the finale of the 27th Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity, a wintertime Polish charity event. The incident took place in the former coal market of the city of Gdańsk. It was a highly public attack, with significant news coverage from both national and international sources.
Kanał Sportowy is an online sports channel founded at the end of 2019.
Krzysztof Jakub Stanowski is a Polish journalist, columnist and businessman, co-owner of the Weszło group and Kanał Sportowy.
Robert Tomasz Mazurek is a Polish journalist, columnist and traveler.
Anita Gargas Wojciechowska is a Polish journalist specialising in investigative journalism and a mathematician by education. She is a journalist of the weekly Gazeta Polska and the daily Gazeta Polska Codziennie, where she is the head of the investigative section. From 1 August 2006 to 19 February 2010, she was a deputy director of the news desk and the vice-director for journalism at TVP1, and the author of the programme Misja specjalna.
Wojciech Sumliński is a Polish psychologist, investigative journalist, publicist and film director. He worked for the Polish magazines, including: the daily newspaper Życie and the weekly magazines Gazeta Polska and Wprost. Sumliński made also documentaries for Telewizja Polska. In his career he has written about the death circumstances of priest Jerzy Popiełuszko, history of the Polish communist secret service, Polish politics and the country's justice system.
Poland participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 in Liverpool, United Kingdom, with "Solo" performed by Blanka. The Polish broadcaster Telewizja Polska (TVP) organised the national final Tu bije serce Europy! Wybieramy hit na Eurowizję! in order to select the Polish entry.
Tomasz Wiktorowski is a Polish tennis coach and commentator who has coached Women's Tennis Association (WTA) No. 1 Iga Świątek since 2021. He coached former world No. 2 Agnieszka Radwańska from 2011 to 2018.
Dawid Celt is a Polish tennis coach, commentator and former player. He is the husband and former hitting partner of onetime Women's Tennis Association (WTA) No. 2 Agnieszka Radwańska. Since 2018, Celt has captained Poland's Billie Jean King Cup team.
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