Helen Rollason programme was a report on the street children of Bogotá, a subject that deeply moved her and reduced her to tears on screen. In 1990, Rollason joined BBC Sport and became the first female presenter of "Grandstand", where her down-to-earth presenting style quickly made her popular with viewers, and earned her a regular presenting role on BBC Two's "Sport on Friday", as well as a raft of other sporting programmes. Among her credits with the BBC are coverage of the Wimbledon Championships, the 1992 Summer Olympics from Barcelona and 1996 Summer Olympics from Atlanta, together with the 1994 Commonwealth Games,
Grandstand (TV programme) results as they came through, with the characters in each result appearing one by one. Remarkably, only two people regularly read out the classified results on "Final Score" when it was part of Grandstand: the Australian Len Martin (from the first programme until his death in 1995) and Tim Gudgin (from 1995 until Final Score was separated from Grandstand in 2001 – he continued to read the classified results until 2011). For twenty years (1965–1985) "Grandstand" faced competition from ITV's "World of Sport", but by the end of the 1980s ITV had stopped broadcasting Saturday afternoon sport in favour of