I will never forget the night the Berlin Wall fell, exactly 20 years ago on November 9 - because it changed the face of world sport, as well as politics.
I was standing in the Reuters newsroom where I worked in the then German capital of Bonn, when my former colleague Martin Nesirky filed an urgent story from East Berlin. The old printer it emerged from went into alarm mode.
The story that flashed around the world in seconds had a simple message - East German citizens could now leave the country without a visa.
But what it really meant was that the Berlin Wall had just crashed down before our eyes. It took a few hours before everybody - East German citizens and the guards on the wall particularly - understood what was happening.
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We're now less than 100 days away from the 2010 Winter Olympics, which begin in the Canadian city of Vancouver on 12 February.
As a member of our Olympics reporting team and an ice hockey commentator, I'll be in Vancouver (and Whistler) alongside Rob Hodgetts and Anna Thompson, covering the Games for the BBC Sport website.
But the Games won't just emerge out of nothing. The world's top winter sports athletes are already getting stuck into the winter season - there is action all over the place as they cram in training sessions and try to get the kind of results, and confidence, that will see them on to medals in Canada.
Here's a round-up of what's been going on, including links to the best stuff on the BBC and elsewhere, and a look ahead to the coverage we've got coming up.
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Another big milestone has been passed. The population's getting excited, and a key symbol of the Olympic movement is on its way to the site of the next Games.
Yep, things are moving in Canada. It's now fewer than 100 days to the start of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver and the journey of the Olympic torch has begun.
I should say I love Canada. How can you not be won over by a country with places called Moose Jaw and Medicine Hat?
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