John Wall is my newest hero. He’s an Australian M65 sprinter who two years ago was preparing to die. According to an amazing story in The Daily Telegraph: “After the operation, and the diagnosis was what is was [a malignant brain tumor], I resigned myself to the fact I was going to die,” John said after winning the 60 (8.61) and 100 (13.8 into a gale) at the Oceania Masters Athletics Championships. “It was a pretty dire position and I have never been in a position where I was not in control of my own body.” Somehow — it’s not clear from the story — he fought back with the support of his manager and best friend Cherie Myers. But he also says: “I don’t want to know how long I have. My headspace is that I want to live as long and productively as I can. … I say to anyone who has cancer: Do not limit yourself to a label somebody gives you.” John, one of a handful of men to go sub-12 in 100 after age 60, starred at 2009 World Masters Games in Sydney: