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Bob Ford is an award-winning sports columnist for The Inquirer. After coming to the newspaper as the beat writer for the 76ers, a capacity he served for six seasons, Ford became a general assignment writer with a specialty in Olympic sports. He has covered every Winter and Summer Olympic Games beginning with Lillehammer, Norway, in 1994. He also has been a feature writer. In 1995, he was designated a fellow of The Knight Center for Specialized Journalism.
Ford has written sports in the Philadelphia area since 1981 when he served as the Phillies beat writer and later as a general columnist for the Delaware County Daily Times.