With Saturday morning still young and cool and breezy, Sam Goff raced down the McCallie School track to loud applause, a shiny ribbon his reward at the finish line.
“He’s been talking about this for two months,” Sam’s father Sean said as the 8-year-old stood on the Area 4 Special Olympics awards stand.
“I like running best,” said Sam, who also threw the softball in his first-ever Games.
What Area 4 chairman Judy Rogers liked best about the 43rd annual Games was that they took place at all.
Shaking off temperatures in the 50s and gusting winds, Rogers thought back to Friday night’s strong thunderstorms and said, “I’ll take it over the rain.”