Runner’s World Racing News via kwout
Amby Burfoot at Runner’s World posted an excellent report today challenging the New York City Medical Examiner’s office on the extraordinary long time it has taken to produce an autopsy on elite marathoner Ryan Shay (Shay died suddenly during the Olympic marathon trials on November 3). Burfoot’s report is the first major story I’ve seen on Shay since February 4, when WCSN.com quoted an NYC Medical Examiner’s Office spokesperson who indicated that the autopsy should be expected by the end of February.
Shay’s death is disturbing on many levels. The silence only makes it more mysterious than it (probably) should be. I like to lurk on the discussion boards at letsrun.com where several threads have cropped up in the past 2 months. Each time, the threads began with honest questions about Shay’s death, followed by unflattering speculation, followed by juvenile name-calling among the participants, followed by one of the site founders hinting that he had inside information of the autopsy which he couldn’t reveal, folowed by the thread being deleted.
Enough already!
2 responses so far ↓
1 sumgirl // Mar 7, 2008 at 2:05 pm
i hate discussion boards. any that i have ever tried to read go in that general direction.
2 john // Mar 11, 2008 at 10:45 pm
I’m very interested in Ryan’s death as well!! I haven’t been keeping up with it, but it does seem pretty mysterious, that the examiner would take such a long time! Unless they have so many bodies ahead awaiting toxicology reports!!
It’s New York, anything is possible!
As far as Summer’s comment about the discussion board and the direction they go in… That really hit home with me, and so I feel guilty! I was a huge part in a pretty big controversy discussion on the MHCC board… Even though I thought I was in the right, I went about it wrong, and have been sorry ever since! I used my confrontational personality in a wrong way, the way of fighting another’s battles! Never do that on such a petty thing as what I did!
Anyway, enough of that, I just thought I should make that confession!
Summer, come back to Sunday School! We moved to Kid Central just for you and Josh!
ANd… We have Pura Vida Coffee!!
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