Other than yourself

Olympic speed-skating gold winner Joey Cheek did something different in his press conference. He did not give the reporters the nice "sweet" story of his success. Instead, he talked about Darfur and Sudan. To all my like-minded sadists out there, yes, it did cross my mind that this might be some kind of publicity gig. But I heard him on NPR, and he sounded very down-to-earth and matter of fact about it - like this was his bigger dream, winning the gold just happened to occur. I loved the way he said that "skating on ice in tights" was rather ridiculous, just after winning GOLD at the OLYMPICS! Modesty.