Hardeep Singh

There is a separate article on Hardeep Signh Kohli.

Hardeep Singh (born 1960) is an Indian field hockey player. He competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, where the Indian team placed fifth.

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Hardeep Singh Kohli

Hardeep Singh Kohli (born January 1969) is an English-born British broadcaster and writer of Sikh heritage who has appeared on radio and television.

Background

Kohli was born in London and moved to Glasgow in Scotland when he was four. His parents came to Britain from India in the 1960s. The family's roots lie in the Punjab. His mother was a social worker, and his father a teacher, then a property landlord. His first school was Hillhead Primary School in the West End of Glasgow, after which he attended Meadowburn Primary.

At age eight, he moved to St. Aloysius College, a private Roman Catholic school in central Glasgow. Kohli studied Law at the University of Glasgow.

While studying, Kohli worked in a few restaurants and began working as an usher at the Citizens Theatre.

Career

Broadcasting

After leaving university Kohli joined the BBC Scotland graduate production trainee scheme. He moved to BBC Television Centre, London, to direct children's TV, and Janet Street-Porter's series Reportage. He was one of the directors of It'll Never Work, which won awards from the Royal Television Society and BAFTA. Kohli left the corporation in 1996 to begin working independently. He wrote, directed and starred in Channel 4's Meet the Magoons in 2004, which was axed after one series after a poor reception. Nancy Banks Smith and A. A. Gill were lukewarm; and while the show was entered for a Golden Rose at the Montreux Comedy Festival it was unplaced. Kohli presented a documentary In Search of the Tartan Turban, which explored cultural identity as a Briton and a Scot belonging to an ethnic minority. The producers won a children's BAFTA and produced a brief Channel 4 daytime schools series, Hardeep Does... that covered a variety of topical issues including sex, religion and pets.

2016 Summer Olympics

The 2016 Summer Olympics (Portuguese: Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially known as the Games of the XXXI Olympiad, and commonly known as Rio 2016, are a major international multi-sport event that will take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from August 5 to August 21, 2016. Record numbers of countries and sets of medals are awaiting in the games. More than 10,500 athletes from 206 National Olympic Committees (NOCs), including from Kosovo and South Sudan for the first time, will take part in this sporting event. With 306 sets of medals, the games will feature 28 Olympic sports — including rugby sevens and golf, which were added by the International Olympic Committee in 2009. These sporting events will take place on 33 venues in the host city and additionally on 5 venues in the cities of São Paulo (Brazil's largest city), Belo Horizonte, Salvador, Brasília (Brazil's capital), and Manaus.

The host city of Rio de Janeiro was announced at the 121st IOC Session held in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 2 October 2009. The other finalists were Madrid, Spain; Chicago, United States; and Tokyo, Japan. Rio will become the first South American city to host the Summer Olympics, the second city in Latin America to host the event after Mexico City in 1968, and the first since 2000 in the Southern Hemisphere. This will be the third time the Summer Olympics are held in a developing country, after the 1968 Games in Mexico and the 1988 Games in South Korea.