Welcome to Inside Track, the Reuters newsletter designed to bring you the sharpest insights and standout stories from across the sports world. Delivered to your inbox three times a week during the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics — and weekly thereafter — this newsletter will help keep you up-to-date on athletes and teams making strides in the industry.

As Reuters' Global Sports Editor, I have covered sport at its grandest and most unforgiving, from Super Bowls to football World Cup finals. I have craned my neck at Wimbledon, Roland Garros, Flushing Meadows and Melbourne Park, and filed from the heart of rugby World Cups, Test match cricket and Formula One paddocks. My Olympic odyssey began at the Atlanta Summer Games in 1996; the Milano Cortina Winter Games will mark my 13th Olympics.

Before joining Reuters in 2000 and making the leap into sports, I cut my teeth as a news correspondent working across newspapers, wire services and radio. A marathon runner and keen sailor, I continue to postpone — perhaps wisely — my dreams of crossing the world’s great oceans under wind power.

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Ossian Shine, Global Sports Editor