Every Olympics needs an Eddie
It was fascinating this week to see . As a young journalist, I broke the story that the bespectacled plasterer-turned-ski jumper was preparing for the .
The whole experience taught me a huge amount about how quickly fame could come to the most unusual personalities - decades before TV shows like .
And it also included the most profound conversation I have ever had in a gents toilet!
When the tip-off came in from a Germany-based correspondent about Eddie at the beginning of 1987, nobody knew how big the story was going to become.
I'm 91Èȱ¬ London's Olympics Correspondent, which means I report on every aspect of the preparations for 2012. I'm going to be telling you what people are saying about London's preparations - both in the Olympic corridors of power and on the streets of the capital - and I want to hear your views.
