About

Liz Price is an experienced presenter, journalist and translator, and an expert in the globalization of the world of sport. Born to a German mother and an English fatxher and educated at the Sorbonne in Paris, she has reported and promoted a diverse range of sports and has travelled extensively in her quest to bring the world’s iconic sporting events to life.

Liz started her journalistic career in France at the Paris-Turf, a daily newspaper dedicated to horse racing, but quickly diversified into radio and television. She has presented a series of significant racing programmes for a range of television channels in France, among them Equidia and France 2, and has also been a regular pundit on the Sky owned British television channel Attheraces. She has made guest appearances on the Australian TV show Two Cups and a Plate and on the American channel TVG.

Today she lives in England, where she continues to work as a Foreign Correspondent for the Paris-Turf. She also writes regular website previews about French racing for Attheraces, a satellite television channel devoted to the sport. A prolific writer, she has been a columnist for The Times, for whom she also covered the 2000 Sydney Olympics. She has also contributed to the German titles, Die Sueddeutsche and Hamburger Abendblatt, as well as The International Thoroughbred Magazine and the Longines Blue Horse Magazine.

Her international background and language skills, together with her ability to interact spontaneously with live audiences, have secured her the role as Master of Ceremonies for major sporting and corporate events hosted by Longines the renowned Swiss watchmaker. From the Longines Ladies Awards and the Longines World’s Best Racehorse and Horse race awards, to the launch of the latest Longines watch or innovation, she has a particularly broad reach by her ability to communicate in English, French, German and Spanish.

In France she hosts official press conferences after the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, the Prix du Jockey Club and the Prix de Diane Longines, which are the country’s signature races. She also often translates at press conferences at major British races and has even translated at the Melbourne Cup conference in Australia.

A former amateur jockey, she has always been passionate about horse racing but has immersed herself in a catalogue of other sports. In 2000 she joined the “Clipper Round the World Yacht Race” to sail competitively for four months across the Caribbean Sea, through the Panama Canal and the Pacific Ocean, during which she reported extensively for The Times. She has also climbed Kilimanjaro and is constantly on the lookout for new adventures.