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Sportsline: Denis Gibbons shares what it was like to be a sports reporter behind the Iron Curtain
25 minutes Posted Mar 6, 2025 at 8:00 pm.
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For decades, former Burlington Post sports editor Denis Gibbons covered local youth and pro hockey.  On this Sportsline Podcast, Gibbons spoke about tournaments in communist countries that gave him an upfront experience of news breaking events like the fall of the Berlin Wall, being detained by the Czechoslovak secret police and the nuclear plant explosion in Chernobyl.