TWENTY-FOUR HOURS
JUST before noon last Thursday I was in a studio finishing a 10-part podcast series on the Winter Olympics for the BBC.
It was a mixture of the truly great Jean-Claude Killy, the heroic, Philip Boit, the ridiculous, Eddie The Eagle, the perfect, Torvill and Dean, and some out and out nutcases like Matti Nykanen.
And then boxing was plunged into an equally outrageous 24-hour period. Just a day, just a day in our business, but not a normal day.
By 1pm on Thursday I was in a room in east London overlooking the Tower and talking to Tokyo Olympic gold
