Flashes of Panic

Come to think of it, Tyson Gay has been pretty good to me this year, and maybe I should’ve given him a vote for Athlete of the Year. I did vote for Meseret Defar, whose sterling 3,000m performance right here in Boston last January was cited as part of the reason for her award.

About two hours before the awards were made public, I found an announcement (carefully marked “embargoed until 19:00 GMT”) of the names in my email inbox, and I was snickering to myself about it all afternoon. After all, who was I going to tell? I could’ve posted it here, early, and not only would nobody who cared ever know that I’d spilled the secret, but nobody who did know would care.

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