Scott Russell is a Canadian sports writer and former sportscaster. He is from Oshawa, Ontario, and earned a Master of Arts degree from the University of Western Ontario in 1985.
Russell’s broadcasting career began in 1985 as a reporter for CBC Radio Charlottetown. After a year, he became a sports reporter. He moved to Montreal in 1988 and became sports reporter and anchor for four years before moving to Toronto for the CBC sports commentator position.
He has worked on numerous CBC Sports, notably covering 17 Olympics ending in 2024, including seven as host, and led the network’s coverage of six Pan Am Games, six Commonwealth Games, two FIFA World Cups and a pair of Women’s World Cups.
Russell was the network’s top broadcaster for gymnastics and has covered them at the Olympic Games of 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2016, 2020 and 2024, along with the 1994 Commonwealth Games and the 1999 Pan American Games.
