Nick Butler: Some weird and wonderful WTF moments on the Olympic beat

Nick Butler: Some weird and wonderful WTF moments on the Olympic beat

A great thing about our job is how sometimes we find ourselves in situations which can only be described as utterly bizarre.

One such instance involved being invited to Damascus by a Syrian Olympic Committee official in a bid to show us how safe it supposedly was. “Come to Beirut and I will ask my friend, the President Assad, to send a car over the border…” we were urged in an invitation we are still yet to take up.