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.
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How does it feel to have a daughter win an Olympic gold? Well I have a pretty good idea how Ian and Jan Williams - the mum and dad of Britain's new Olympic Champion Amy Williams are feeling tonight after chatting to them throughout the skeleton competition.
It's fair to say 'very proud' is their foremost emotion but I was so impressed by their calmness.
If it had been me I would have been blubbing like a baby and would have probably started an ice invasion in a bid to give her a huge hug. Mr and Mrs Williams on the other hand remained the perfect picture of British restrain.
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I used to be a presenter and reporter for Newsround on BBC children's TV and amongst all the amazing and crazy things I did whilst working there, one of the coolest was rapping with Estelle.
Now, I can't rap or even sing but about four years ago I stood on stage in front of hundreds of school children and did a duet with her. It is still one of things I am most proud of.
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Now that two days have passed since Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili's death, I finally feel I can blog about the whole tragic experience.
Some TV networks out here are still showing the incident. I can't imagine why anyone would want to see it and I wish they'd stop. It's something I never want to have to witness again.
At the time of the accident I'd been making a feature for BBC Sport on the sliding track - about how fast and difficult it was - so I'd already been talking at length to sliders and watching the lugers training.
Without exception, every athlete and coach told me it was the most difficult, fastest track they'd ever seen. Many of them, including the world number one Canadian skeleton slider Melissa Hollingsworth, went as far as calling it "dangerous".
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Wow, what a place Whistler is! I've always wanted to come here, and for me this is the where the real Winter Olympics are (not that I've been to Vancouver yet!)
Whistler - famous for its great snow, great pistes and friendly people and so far living up to that reputation - is the home of the alpine sports.
These sports are at the heart of the history of the games. Skiing and sliding are my favourite events and I am privileged to be here covering them for the BBC.
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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. 
