So this was it; this was the outcome of all those years of early mornings at the municipal pool, of all that practice in the front room every evening - honing the shapes and curves his body could make. The months of dieting, weight-training, running and stretching until his body was pushed beyond endurance.
This was what it had all been for - a few seconds of ‘elegant falling then minimal splash’ and just the outside chance of a medal on a ribbon for all that hard work.