It’s another sad day. We have lost a great friend of athletics. Bud Greenspan was a wonderful man, with a laconic nature and fertile sense of humour. He appreciated the absurdities of life and was ever ready with a quip for the occasion. He was a perennial at the Olympic Games, entertaining as much as he enjoyed being entertained by stories guys like me would mention to him half in the hope he might use some part of the tale. I loved his work. His film of the Sydney Olympics is tremendous, especially the chapter on the Greatest Night of Athletics, 25 September 2000 when Cathy Freeman and Haile Gebrselassie, among others, won gold in front of a record 112,000 crowd. Goodbye Bud. And thanks for the memories.