Trinidad and To­ba­go’s most dec­o­rat­ed Olympian, Ato Boldon, con­tin­ues to make waves, not on the track, but be­hind the mi­cro­phone. At the 2025 Sports Em­my Awards held at Lin­coln Cen­tre in New York City on Tues­day night, Boldon was part of the NBC Uni­ver­sal broad­cast team that won 13 Sports Em­my Awards, 10 of which came for their 2024 Paris Olympic Games cov­er­age.

Boldon, 52, was al­so in­di­vid­u­al­ly nom­i­nat­ed for Out­stand­ing Sports Per­son­al­i­ty in the Sports Event An­a­lyst cat­e­go­ry, mak­ing it his sec­ond nom­i­na­tion fol­low­ing his first in 2013. He re­mains the on­ly track and field com­men­ta­tor ever to be nom­i­nat­ed in that cat­e­go­ry. Al­though he didn’t win, his role as NBC’s lead an­a­lyst for ath­let­ics was in­stru­men­tal to the net­work’s over­all suc­cess.

Be­fore be­com­ing a re­spect­ed broad­cast­er, Boldon had a leg­endary track and field ca­reer. He won four Olympic medals for Trinidad and To­ba­go: two bronze medals in the 100m and 200m at the 1996 At­lanta Games and a sil­ver in the 100m and a bronze in the 200m at the 2000 Syd­ney Olympics. These achieve­ments make him the most suc­cess­ful Olympic ath­lete in T&T’s his­to­ry.

He al­so won gold in the 200m at the 1997 World Cham­pi­onships in Athens, be­com­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go’s first world cham­pi­on in track and field. Boldon re­mains a Com­mon­wealth Games gold medal­list as well, win­ning the 100m in 1998 with a Games record time of 9.88 sec­onds, a record that still stands to­day.

In ad­di­tion to his medals, Boldon still holds sev­er­al na­tion­al records, in­clud­ing the 50m (5.64 sec­onds), 60m (6.49 sec­onds), and 200m (19.77 sec­onds).