Jones was the BBC's athletics reporter for some 15 years, He worked trackside at the
London 2012 Olympics, interviewing such athletes as
Usain Bolt,
Mo Farah,
Jessica Ennis-Hill and
Greg Rutherford. After taking a break from TV work late in 2017, Jones returned to the BBC's coverage of athletics with 'legends' features on Linford Christie, Sally Gunnell and Jonathan Edwards during the
Doha World Championships output in 2019. In August 2020, Jones featured in a BBC2 documentary "Jonathan Edwards: One Giant Leap" about the triple jumper's 25-year-old world record. Jones reported on four
Summer Olympic Games for the BBC, along with four
Commonwealth Games, six
World Athletics Championships and all the BBC’s domestic athletics output, including the
London Marathon and the
Great North Run. Jones presented Grandstand several times in 2004 before its long run ended. He covered
Wimbledon for more than two decades. In 2017 Jones reported from Wimbledon for the 15th year in his second spell with BBC Sport, although he first worked on the Championships as a BBC reporter in 1994 before moving to work in the United States that same year. Thereafter, he covered Wimbledon for American networks CNN and TNT until returning to the UK in 2002. Jones presented for almost eight years from September 1994 for CNN International, hosting its flagship World Sport show almost two-thousand times and co-hosting CNN's coverage of the
Atlanta 1996 Olympics,
Salt Lake City 2002 Winter Olympics, the
FIFA World Cup in France in 1998 and both
Euro 96 and
Euro 2000 football tournaments. He also presented CNN's weekly golf show for two years, reported from the
Masters Tournament and co-hosted the US PGA Championship for network channel CNNSi in 2001. ==Personal life==