大象传媒

I'm Radio 5 Live's Sports News and Olympics Correspondent. I've been doing the job since moving from the 大象传媒's World Service in 1998, just in time to get stuck in the middle of a . Perhaps the tear-gas affected my mind, but I've been unable to convince myself there's a more challenging and endlessly fascinating occupation anywhere else since.

I began my career as a news journalist at 大象传媒 Radio Cumbria in 1988, before heading to the World Service in 1992. It wasn't until then that my lifelong passion for sport, (matched by a cruel and parallel ineptitude at playing almost all of them,) became woven into my professional life.

When I was asked to go to the as the swimming reporter for World Service, there was no hesitation. At home, when growing up, the had always been a big deal - the came just in time for the , and I followed the careers of Coe, Ovett and Thompson avidly.

Since then, I've been fortunate enough to be in at the greatest Olympic party of them all, and in , ancient home of the Games. The Olympics really does bring out the best and worst in people, and the of the whole event (heroes, villains, political machinations, passion, thwarted ambition, heroic conquest... should I stop now?) I think chimes deeply, even in people who don't normally follow sport.

I suppose it's the challenge of putting all the human endeavour into context for our audience that really motivates me. Following and reporting on the , with its climax in Singapore, was one of the most rewarding things I've done professionally.

After Beijing, the focus of attention will truly fall on London, and it'll be quite a ride watching it all unfold... and hopefully not unravel!