In Pietermaritzburg
With the main focus of this year's SA Senior National Track and Field Championships on "Generation Next" hopefully finally making a breakthrough in the national conscience, Akani Simbine - one of the two remaining old dogs with Wayde van Niekerk - sounded an awful lot like a man not in a rush to be helped off centre stage.
Considered that rare thing in track and field - a gentleman sprinter - the 30-year-old has been in defiant mood this season.