Kwame - the epitome of the dream?
I always wanted to go to an Olympics. Not as a spectator but as an athlete. Sadly I was always a mile off being good enough at my chosen sport of hockey to make it.
That was mainly down to a lack of talent but it was also likely to have been affected by the way I was nurtured as a sporting wannabee, or not nurtured as the case may be. I didn't start playing until I was 12, didn't join a club team until I was in my late teens and was part of quite a cliquey county set-up.
So all these years later (I'm not bitter) I have settled for working at the Gamesas a journalist which, let's face it, isn't a bad lot. But there are some people who just don't accept they might not quite have the right training/background/money/facilities and somehow they do make it.
One of those sporting miracles is the 35-year-old Ghanaian slalom skier Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong, aka the Snow Leopard.
Blackcomb Mountain is where it's at for me at these Winter Olympics. I'm following all the action from the skiiing, snowboarding and sliding events as BBC Sport's reporter in Whistler. 
