We get down to the field before the official results have been announced so people are milling about, chatting and laughing and waiting. One person I talked to tells me that he thinks he took third. Another one knows he didn't place but he is still happy to have run. They are all anticipating the medal ceremony with palpable excitement, most of all Michael Hoyland-Young and his younger brother Steve Hoyland. Today, their sister Susan took the mini-marathon gold in her age division.

Susan Harrison of Team Canada would have been hard-pressed to do more than walk four years ago. She was diagnosed with Primary Biliary Cirrhosis ("PBC"), which slowly attacked her liver until she ended up in the hospital, dying as she was losing her entire blood volume. Miraculously, that same night someone died and his organs were donated. His liver was an exact match for Susan. Still, Susan was in critical condition and her brother recalls, "They told us not to start celebrating yet."

They are celebrating now.

As I talk to Susan, her brother Michael comes up to us with a camcorder, taping our interview. He's taping everything about this event but he also takes time to talk to me about his sister. He tells me about the miracle of the eleventh-hour donor and he makes sure I know how brave and determined his sister is. I can see in his eyes and in the way he talks about his sister that he is bursting with pride. Susan too is proud. She is proud to have taken the gold when a day earlier she wasn't sure she could, but more than that she is thankful. She tells me that she is doing this for the donors. "It's a way of saying 'Thank you' to the families because you don't get to thank the donor."