On a recent snowy morning at the Armory track, in Washington Heights, grade-schoolers representing countries from all over the world competed for the title of world’s fastest kid.
One recent Saturday morning, when snow-blasted city streets took on the feel of Alpine downhills, two Irish families set off from the Park Central Hotel toward the subway at Columbus Circle. Their destination: the Armory track, in Washington Heights, home of the century-old Millrose Games track-and-field meet. Their goal: to find out if either Cian Donnelly, of Headford, or Grace Foley, of Sligo, both eight years old, just might be the Got Milk? Fastest Kid in the World.
She settled into a seat on an uptown 1, alongside Cian and her twin brother, Oliver, who turned around and knelt on his seat to watch stations whir by outside the window. When the train stopped, the kids slid hard to the right. “Why do they make it so slippy?” Grace asked. Cian, in a knit cap with a PlayStation logo and a pompom, had been up since six and allowed to play in the snow, but he was instructed not to run in it, lest he injure himself before the race they’d crossed an ocean for.
On the track’s infield, as a handful of Olympians and pros idled between heats, the entrants in the girls’ race were introduced, waving, on an eighteen-foot video screen. The fifty-five-metre sprint lasted all of eleven seconds. Grace, who finished in just over nine, tied for third. Then the boys were introduced, waved their flags, and took off. Cian, in just over nine seconds, finished third, too.
Next came the boys. Were they tired? “Yes.” “No.” “A little.” Cian, in the back, cow mask on his chin, sneezed into his elbow. The Bronx’s Bryce Hickman, the winner, said his favorite part was “when all of us took a picture in front of the milk statue.” The reminder excited Jahziyah Taffe, of Queens, who had represented Jamaica. “We went near that milk statue, so I’m pretty sure we are getting a milkshake!” It was a mistaken assumption.
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