Deaf-blind athlete
The coolest thing by far that I saw today at the Danskin packet pick-up was a deaf-blind athlete, with her interpreter, picking up her race packet.
Second coolest, the Team Survivor folks.
Kind of helps you keep your perspective, these things.
"My predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved;I have been given much and I have given something in return...Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and an adventure." O. Sacks