MORNINGMANIAC's Blog

And do it all in less than six months--It may be the greatest untold story of the Beijing games.  Keeth Smart first defeated a rare blood disease that almost killed him before going on to the Olympic games as a member of the US saber team and grabbing the silver medal right out of deaths' grip....The only way this could have had a better ending is if he had won the gold medal. 

Smart said its been a tough year--I'll say!  I think might be the understatement of the year!  Just as doctors told him his rare blood disease was within days of taking his life--he began to recover--and not long after he was well on his way to a miraculous recovery--his mom passed away from cancer.  Smart may have come up in second place in the Olympic games--but in the game of life hes one of the biggest winners I know--and now this lanky lefthander from Brooklyn will retire from competition and head to business school at none other than Columbia University--only  one of the  finest institutions on the planet will for one of the finest athletes on the planet.  Lets give it up for a performance thats out of this world!