My name is César. I'm 15 years old.
I hope to dive well and win the Desafio Noturno,
which is the year's first competition.
The silver medal goes to Hugo Parisi!
I wouldn't trade diving for anything.
Diving is my life.
You grab the tips of your fingers.
You push your palm out towards the water.
Tammy Pereira!
I'll keep on training
to give diving everything I've still got.
DIARIES FROM THE EDGE
No one can prepare an athlete for the Olympic Games.
There's no such thing as an easygoing day for us.
We're always standing on the edge of a cliff,
always facing our fear.
You could execute an excellent dive,
just as you could get a zero on it instead,
but everyone will know you based on those three seconds.
Our routine rhythm isn't like "one, two, three, four".
It's more like: "One! Two!"
We go through each rep like it's our last.
Some athletes might do better in a competition setting.
Like we always say, athletes aren't machines.
They're human beings.
We know that if we get under their skin,
if we really push their buttons and get them pissed off at us,
they might grow from that.
Sports in general teach us so much
about bouncing back from a loss.
When I botch a dive,
I give myself no longer than 30 seconds
to dwell on it.
After 30 seconds, let it go 'cause it's no use.
Time to focus to the next one.
I find that a metaphor, mirroring life itself.
We all have our sob stories.
The difference is what each of us does about it.
Regardless of your life story or where you came from,
what matters is the goal you're striving towards.
We're working hard to get to the Olympics
in the best shape possible
from a physical and technical standpoint.
So that we can compete on equal footing
and be in the running for medals
in the world's greatest sporting event.
It's a knockdown, drag-out fight.
We have talented athletes
and some very experienced athletes.
Hugo, César and Juliana,
who are very focused and determined.
A huge landmark moment for me
was Brazil's first medal in diving, in 2003.
A silver medal on the ten-meter platform.
The Olympic final in Athens was hugely important
'cause it was the first time in 52 years, back then,
that a Brazilian made it to the finals.
So that was huge.
Today, thank God,
I take great pride in saying I'll be representing Brazil
in my fourth Olympics.
This new generation coming in full of energy
has the benefit
of the fruits of the labor of more experienced divers
They have better diving conditions.
They have yet to grasp the true cost of victory
so I feel that these Olympics, in that sense,
will be a big learning experience for them.
They'll realize that winning takes a whole lot more.
BRASILIA: MAY 2016
A dive is composed of several elements
and we break those elements down
to work on each one separately.
Before they get to the water to execute the dive, per se,
the diver is in the gym
working on their posture, their coordination,
the position they'll be in while in midair,
the come-out...
Then we put all the elements together on the trampoline,
which is where they work on technique.
Drilling these repetitions gives them courage
and then we take it to the pool.
The difference on the trampoline
is that we remove the factors of fear and height,
allowing the athletes to develop tighter technique.
In the time it takes to hit one dive in the pool,
they can do ten repetitions on the trampoline.
The final step is the pool training.
Luiz, a little more confidence on the hurdle.
You're getting too much height
and keeping your shoulders too far back.
Sometimes it feels like I just won't make it.
Y'know when you practice a dive for a solid week
and continue making the same mistake?
Extension.
Quit stopping mid-attempt, Luiz.
I'm supposed to keep my arms like this,
but I put them here instead.
"Okay, I'll extend them properly this time," you think.
But then you do it the same way.
At one point, you feel like it's not happening.
My arms just won't do it.
Desperation starts to sink in.
Extend! That's it!
Did you feel that height?
I got them aligned, but still a little low.
Lord almighty!
Why didn't I choose table tennis instead?
Forward, forward!
Right as we hit the water,
we already have a pretty good idea
of whether it was a good dive or not.
We're so familiar with the execution,
even the ideal rip entry,
that we can tell precisely
if we were short on our rotations
or if we were late in our come-out.
See?
He tends to project his chest forward a bit.
Since you know that will inevitably happen,
you can hit the edge standing straight
and you'll still get there.
The dive itself happens very quickly.
In the span of one and a half, maybe two seconds at most,
we've executed a dive from start to finish.
In that second and a half,
a lot of things flash through our head.
We fix a lot of problems in midair.
The key thing that sets us apart
is our day-to-day training.
In the process of outlining our training,
we establish our targets and objectives
and over the course of our day-to-day routine,
a measure of friction and disagreement is natural.
Before we started working as a synchronized pair,
we were already great friends, and that helped us.
We're not on speaking terms right now,
but that happens.
It's strictly professional between us now,
but we were once great friends.
I slept over at her place and called her mom "aunt".
I still do, actually,
and I'm very fond of her sister and her dad too.
But when it's time to dive,
if we're out of sync on any given motion,
we talk it through to get it fixed.
It does take synergy to dive together.
Since they first started diving together,
this isn't the first time they've butted heads.
Ale and I work with them.
I do my part
and Ale does his part with Giovana
and we confer with each other as coaches,
but we talk to them too.
I can't ask something of just one of them.
"Why are you talking to her, and not me too?"
We put this pair together
because they have a good rapport
and because they're compatible
in terms of strength, flexibility andcharacter.
They're both tough girls too.
All the traits which led us to pair them up together
were strong traits
which we knew would yield good chemistry
and good results, as we've seen over time.
Hugo has been suffering from severe chronic back pain.
This sometimes prevents him from training effectively.
It does hinder his training.
The doctor instructed him to undergo a procedure
but his health plan wouldn't clear it.
We must be very good about dealing with it
because that recovery period is very tough for athletes.
After all, athletes are happy
when they're out there competing.
There's visualization training
which we employ very frequently
to get synesthetic movements imprinted in his brain
such that during training,
he's better prepared, better programmed
with those movements in his short-term memory.
That aids their execution.
First, we work on concentration exercises
to narrow his focus.
Then he moves on to coherence
and lastly, visualization
which consists of the ritual he goes through
during competitions and in his day-to-day routine.
You did great here.
Your attention score was very high.
Really, really good.
Now is not the time for rest.
I can't rest now.
I have to fight through the pain,
keep my head up and compete.
Hugo has been diving
for longer than I've been alive.
At first, I could sense the gap between us
in terms of age, experience
the contacts he's made and his approach to the sport.
He's way more developed than me in that sense
'cause I'm still growing and finding my footing.
Jackson had an accident along the way.
A rather serious accident.
I was working with Hugo on our synchronized swimming.
There's a foam pool at our gym,
but the edges of the pool are concrete.
We were practicing a forward double somersault.
I was one-and-a-half rotations into it
when I hit my forehead on the concrete edge.
I cracked both sides of my face, along with my nose.
It was a skull fracture.
They told me the earliest I might possibly come back
would be three weeks before the Olympics.
I'm definitely confident with regards to my recovery
and everything I'm doing these days,
but I'm still taking it one day at a time
before I get to that one day in which I say:
"I'm past all of that, and I'm good to go today."
I can still see through
everything I've committed myself to fulfilling
over the past six years of my life.
He's being tested every two weeks
in order to chart his recovery.
Over these past two weeks,
we'd pushed him a bit harder in training
and he experienced some headaches
so we wondered if we pushed him too hard.
"Is he experiencing a setback?"
Forward, forward!
Nice.
Tammy, good hurdle and nice use of the board.
That was a good dive.
Trust your finish.
Don't hit your come-out thinking: "God, I'm screwed!"
Trust your finish and nail the dive.
If you don't trust it, you'll enter the water,
but you won't nail the dive.
Good take-off.
They're all coming out like that!
We've worked as a pair for nearly ten years now.
Just the other day, she came up to me and said:
"Damn, Tammy! Check out what I dug up!"
It was a bit in the newspaper from when I was ten,
with her by my side on the other board.
My goodness! It's been so long!
Ever since I took up diving, she's been there with me.
Naturally, I've always looked up to her as an idol
and as someone who lived it all.
It was even tougher for divers in those days.
-Double, right? -Yeah.
-Okay? -Go.
One, two and go.
Square up on your hips, otherwise you lose control
and you get out of sync.
I always feel like I can do better.
Sometimes I do three reps for each dive
and I hit all three of them,
but I still feel like it wasn't good enough.
That I could do better.
I suffered an injury
because I refuse to go easy on my weight lifting.
Even when I'm tired, I still feel like I can do it.
So I did mess up on my training intensity,
but I don't regret overdoing it.
I'd rather overdo it
and then think "I should've cut it short"
than think "man, I should've trained harder"
and still feel okay when I get home.
No, I have to get home like this!
Like I can't take it anymore.
That's how my head works, I guess.
A great friend of mine is a former Olympic champion
and is now the head coach for the Swedish national team.
She's currently visiting facilities in Rio de Janeiro.
She took one look and said:
"Wait, this is where you train?"
"Yup," I said. "From the day I was born."
"You were shaped as an athlete in these conditions?"
"Yeah," I replied. "I was."
So she said: "I'm even prouder of you now."
She saw that for a long while,
there had been little support for diving in Brazil.
It doesn't even cross their minds
that athletes of our caliber
might lack such basic infrastructure.
A diver's training is meticulously planned out.
First and foremost,
our most crucial asset is the gym,
where we conduct 70% of a diver's preparation.
It's where we develop all of a diver's training,
all of our strategies and dives
to reach our target level
before we take their training to the water.
The biggest problem not only in Brazilian diving,
but in all of our national-level sports,
is basic infrastructure.
Today, we have a facility in Brasília
and another one in Rio de Janeiro.
We had one at the Maracanã, but it was torn down.
The Julio de Lamare Center used to hold swimming classes.
Our synchronized swimming team trained there as well,
along with the diving team.
They worked with people with disabilities
and kids afflicted with Down's syndrome.
Nowadays, however, the pools remain abandoned.
The gym, which represented a huge investment,
has been torn down.
It was money dumped in the trash
and the facilities are no longer in use.
I came to Rio in 2009
planning on training there until 2016
but in 2013, I was forced to leave
because the pool was shut down.
In a city such as Rio,
which would be hosting the Olympics,
it would be nice for the event to leave a lasting legacy
such as a pool for our training and beyond,
but it wasn't meant to be.
We were forced to relocate
and that situation brought me to Atlanta.
It was a very delicate moment in my career.
I chose to come to Athens
due to their tremendous infrastructure.
I train over there, then lift weights here.
Also, the university's dining hall
is a five-minute walk from here.
In this short radius, then, I have practically all I need.
That's what sets it apart for me.
I don't have to drive 20 minutes to a gym.
Also, I live pretty close by, five minutes away.
This proximity to everything was very important to me.
It was Dan who brought me here.
Having the right coach
is very important for all of our preparation,
and we'd been friends for five years already.
It's not a dive with a high degree of difficulty,
but I make up for that with a good entry.
I practice to get my entry close to perfect
to get a higher score
than guys who attempt more difficult dives.
I might not have a back 3.5 somersault in me,
but I can manage an 8.5 or 9 on a back 2.5 somersault
with a really nice entry
and that's the approach I chose.
Biochemistry represents the highest level
of detail-oriented analysis for my training.
I started working with Cameron a few years back.
Based on an extremely precise blood analysis,
taking blood samples before training,
after training
and during my recovery on the day after
in a period of fasting,
he can tell what goes on in my body
during the stress conditions of everyday training,
and I'll make use of those results
to help me in the Olympics.
Our work consists of sports-oriented studies,*
a scientific methodology which aims to understand
changes in an athlete's metabolism and signaling
during exercise.
What we try to do
is teach ways or provide the means
for an athlete to regulate his own motor.
In other words, we inform them
about what's going on at the cellular level
and how the athlete's organism
is responding to those stimuli.
I learned a lot from the studies.
When I first get here in the morning, I'm at 100%.
After the morning practice, my body is at 40%.
If I get an hour and a half of rest,
I'll be at 70% for the afternoon practice,
but if I rest instead for two and a half hours,
then I get back to 95%.
Apart from that,
what sort of food can help me recover more quickly?
The upper limit for total athletes
competing at diving events in the Olympics
is 136 athletes, covering all of the events.
On individual events, an athlete gets 5 dives
with a degree of difficulty of their choosing.
She made the transition from junior to adult diver.
Junior divers get four freestyle dives,
rather than five,
so when the Pan Am Games came up, we ran out of time
and chose for her fifth dive
the back 2.5 somersault in pike position.
She got jittery since the dive was new to her
and hit her come-out too soon.
It was an indoor pool too,
while we're used to open-air pools,
so a number of factors came into play.
There was a certain stigmatization, y'know?
First there was that picture which caused an uproar
because she's a beautiful girl
and because people love to get worked up in a frenzy
and draw attention to themselves.
Then, she botched a dive and got a zero
which led to people questioning
whether she was there as a legit athlete
or mere eye candy.
What is she doing there?
She got a lot of criticism on social media
and every time she went up for that one dive,
that all came flashing back and she froze up.
Even when she did hit the dive, it went poorly.
In training, at times I fell flat on my back
while other times I nailed the dive.
In the Pan Am Games, I counted: "One, two."
I hit my come-out,
but I sensed that my legs weren't going up
so I bent my legs, but that got me a zero.
Traditionally speaking, a large majority of athletes
tend to have very rough upbringings.
Therefore, you need a very deft hand
in knowing when to chastise and when to comfort them,
otherwise you could lose that athlete.
Trust it!
I saw that you tried,
but you were slow in locking your hands.
It needs to be quick.
Get into position right out of the jump.
Get used to that grip so you get that rip entry.
You're jumping high enough to do it.
An athlete might do well in one competition
and poorly in another one just a week later.
If they don't have the mental fortitude it takes
to deal with those situations,
they'll crack under the pressure.
You've got the right angles, but you need more thrust.
You're relying too much on just the lead leg.
This is my toughest dive
and if I'm tired or not feeling well,
I struggle to hit it properly, or even hit it at all.
Sometimes when I'm up there,
a lot of bad thoughts flood into my head.
"God, if I botch this one bit I'm doomed!"
I'd say that this is her best dive,
but I'm not so good at it.
You need to be strong and deal with the pressure.
I joke with my athletes and tell them
that pressure must be your friend.
If you can deal well with the pressure,
then you won't let the fear take over.
There's always fear, particularly in diving.
She's very sluggish today.
Put your hips into the hurdle.
BOLZANO, ITALY: DIVING GRAND PRIX
This is our last competition before the Olympics.
The Italian stop in the Diving Grand Prix.
Everyone's expectations are sky high.
Competing in this event is very important
to help calm everyone's anxiety
so that we can finally focus exclusively on the Olympics.
The pool is super cold.
Apart from the cold water and cold breeze,
I'll attempt the same series I've set for the Olympics
so this should be a good test to help me adapt.
You clammed up after you hit the edge.
Propel yourself forward.
You can't move. Just push off.
What do you do after the come-out here?
I know, it has to be like this.
You have to straighten out and then tuck your arms in.
You're not using your hips.
They're still too far forward. You need to be quick.
Last one.
Your legs went a bit limp.
If you'd kept them tight, you would've nailed it.
All the same, good one.
Arms first.
You tucked your head in.
All that's missing is working up the nerve
to replicate that in the pool.
Let's not repeat it, or else it won't work.
You either twist or push your hips out.
First you take off properly, and then you twist.
Here's what your dad said. Listen up.
You need to use your hips to get a proper take off.
If your butt comes up here, you'll stay in place, right?
If you keep your head out in front,
you'll get better balance
and your butt will come out this way
which will allow you to rotate outwards, not inwards.
The most crucial thing for the athletes here
was getting into competition rhythm.
They hadn't taken part in international competitions
since February,
and hadn't felt those butterflies
that come from being next to Olympic medalists.
The time has come
to see if we managed to adapt properly.
Now comes the real test.
I was nervous today.
It had been a while since I got nervous like that.
That dive has your lowest degree of difficulty.
You have to learn not to get so close to the edge
because if that happens up there,
you'll jump off without knowing what to do.
I'm not happy about it
because that mistake is easily correctable
and one which I wasn't making before.
Meanwhile, my toughest dive,
which I hadn't hit even once here,
ended up being my best.
It's a different vibe when it's a competition.
You dig deep and find strength you didn't know you had.
Tania has always been number one.
Francesca is only competing in the synchronized events.
They're both always there at the podium.
They always win medals in the World Series.
Always in the top five.
That's why they have a legitimate shot
at Olympic medals in the synchronized events.
One, two and go.
It's done, and there's nothing we can do.
Naturally, each of us reflects upon our mistakes
and what we can do to improve, but...
Yeah, that's done. Move on to the next one.
We know how hard the conditions were here,
but they were hard for all of us.
Those who remained the most focused
were the ones who did the best.
We have twenty days to switch things up,
otherwise we'll get nowhere.
We definitely do better in some competitions
and worse in others.
We can't always be at the top of our game.
Over time, we come to understand this.
If we use the poor results as learning experiences,
that's when we grow.
Currently, I can't follow the training regimen I'd like.
I have to listen to and obey what my back says.
It's not easy for me
because I know just how much training it takes
to compete at a high level,
but I do believe I can put in a good showing
in part because we put to use
everything we've learned in the course of our lives.
I don't consider myself injured anymore.
Rather, I had an injury.
I overcame the injury, and at this point,
none of my ten-meter dives hurt anymore.
Five. Five. Seven.
Five. Five.
Are any of them prepared?
Back in Rio, they seemed prepared.
When it comes time for the competitions,
things look a whole lot different, Ale.
It's like a law of ours.
Whenever we perform poorly, we do well at the next event.
-What's our next event? -The Olympics.
The Olympics.
Welcome to Rome!
If you go to the Trevi Fountain and throw a coin in,
you go back to the sea.
The last time I was here,
I was just beginning my coaching career.
The wish I made here
was to become an Olympic coach.
That wish came true three times over.
Eileen is my masseuse here.
She's part of the team.
She is an important part of my team
in my preparation for the Olympics.
She's the one who gets me on track.
Who straightens me out.
This is where I like to chill,
particularly on the eve of major events.
It's where I relax and read my books,
listen to music, and think about the event.
I think about how the competition might go down.
It's a moment of peace
in which I'm within myself and I can reflect
while having coffee, which is one of my addictions.
Can you imagine years of work leading up to one thing?
For ages I've dreamed of competing in the Olympics
and tomorrow will be the big day.
I have no words.
It's impossible to describe exactly what I'll feel,
because I just don't know.
-Hey, mom. -Hi.
-How was practice? -Great.
That was the last one, right?
My next dive will be in the Olympic pool.
I have no doubt
that it will be the best moment of my life
when I officially become an Olympic athlete.
Tomorrow I'll arrive at the Olympic Village.
All the best athletes will be here.
We all went through practically the same cycle.
We're all the same in this context.
I can't let the situation overwhelm me.
When we get overwhelmed, we lose focus.
The key thing right now is to remain focused
so that we don't throw all our work away.
They're well-prepared.
They look good, and they qualified.
All of them are living their dreams.
So I'd say it's mission accomplished.
I'm a bit anxious right now
about our arrival at the Village.
There's a lot on my mind. My head is spinning.
I had an excellent practice
right when I'm 100% focused.
What are the odds?
When you arrive for an event like the Olympics,
it's no use regretting whatever you did or didn't do.
You get there and think:
"If only I'd done such and such..."
I told them time and again.
When you get to the competition,
it's not training anymore.
As I make my exit now,
I'd say I'm far happier than I could've imagined.
I feel like a gold medal winner.
It had been 68 years
since a Brazilian made it to 16th place
on the ten-meter platform events.
I was really happy
because I matched what I'd done 12 years ago.
I finished among the ten best in the world.
I couldn't possibly be upset about that.
I realize that I wasn't close to a medal finish,
but I've always dreamed of being top ten in the world.
That was our best competition performance ever.
We broke our personal record.
We got as far as we could go,
given everything the athletes went through
leading up to the event.
How do I leave the Olympics, you ask?
With the results we achieved.
I was very focused during the competition itself,
but some days, I had trouble practicing.
I couldn't concentrate.
That subject, you know...
I...
Well, we don't know how the story got out.
It happened, yeah.
I took him to my room,
but that was before they'd even opened the Village.
The inauguration was on the 5th,
and we did it on the 3rd.
It wasn't good for her.
Not so much for me,
'cause it didn't affect me in any way
since that was after my own participation
and it had nothing to do with me, really,
but I think it hurt her
because she still had individual events coming up.
She was bearing the full weight of that whole ordeal.
"Oh, Ingrid had sex at the Village!
They're going to kick her out!"
Ingrid this, Ingrid that!
I can't say for sure if it hindered her performance,
but it did take a big toll on her.
She read everything the media was saying about her
and she was close to people who read about her
and sent her texts about it.
She was constantly taking it all in
and often replying to their comments,
and through all that, she had to remain focused.
Therefore, of course it affected her.
Then she missed that damn dive
which we'd worked on for so long,
and which she'd been hitting well.
There was indeed pressure building up inside her.
I can't speak for her, but that was my read.
She wanted to show everyone that she could dive very well.
To show everyone that it wasn't a game for her.
This was the most pivotal year in our friendship.
Ever since we stopped speaking,
the whole situation
had been wearing on our coaches.
There was constant friction between Ale and Andreia.
Both divers have come to a crossroads
where they have a lot more to gain
by going their separate ways.
I think it will do them a world of good.
It will help them grow far more mature
but they do still need that individual growth.
Their partnership yielded positive results,
but it's the right time to split them up.
Brazilian media loves to harp on that.
"There were 8 in the running, and they finished in 8th.
They came in last place."
That's not how I see it, no.
I see it in a much brighter and more rewarding light.
We are the world's eighth-best synchronized diving duo.
I was chill on the day of my event,
but when I got to the pool, then the nerves hit.
My legs got a little wobbly.
My heart started beating faster.
I planned ahead to concentrate at a given moment.
I went in with certain expectations.
"Okay, I know Brazilians love to get loud
so I'm going to wait until they all settle down."
Two days before the event,
Tammy hit her feet on the springboard.
That's normal on that particular dive.
She dives with her back to the pool
and rotates towards the springboard.
The first somersault
is practically aligned with the springboard.
If they're aligned, the diver hits the board.
I was a little hesitant
and more nervous than on my other dives.
As Juliana counted us down and we made our approach...
One, two and go.
I heard a noise like a bottle popping open.
It was very loud, and since the place was quiet,
I don't know what happened, but I lost my concentration.
I lost my focus and I pulled my feet back
'cause I thought I wouldn't clear it,
and I came up short on the dive.
It was nothing serious, just a lapse of confidence.
Breaking their dive down afterwards,
'cause all we can think at that moment
is "oh God, they missed it"!
Breaking it down, Juliana didn't hit it very well either
but Tammy's contact with the board
eclipsed Juliana's dive.
They weren't that far apart.
Tammy was devastated. "God, I ruined everything!"
No, it wasn't like that.
Both of them made mistakes on the dive.
Self-confidence is crucial in any competition.
Our first dive went well. We were nicely synced.
It's an easier dive,
so it was meant to give us a feel for the competition
in terms of the crowds and the noise level
since we're not used to crowds of that size.
Our second dive was the pike.
It's an extremely simple dive.
But despite the simplicity, it can be tricky to get right.
He counted us off and I hit my dive.
I felt I'd gotten a good entry angle,
but as soon as I resurfaced,
I saw that Andreia was like this.
I thought to myself: "What the heck did I do?"
Then I looked at the big screen
and saw that Luiz hit the water folded in half.
I guess I got too relaxed and too into the moment,
as opposed to keeping my blinders on, so to speak.
I piked and bent my legs in
as if it were a training session.
I simply...
I forgot that I was in a competition.
When we were in the hallway
and he was crying sitting on the floor,
I thought he wouldn't manage to finish the series.
That's what it felt like
because Russia had dived, then England
and China was going up for their dive
and I was still there urging him on.
"Luiz, get it together, for the love of God.
We have four dives left."
It feels like a movie goes through your head.
Extend, extend!
Quit stopping mid-attempt, Luiz.
Don't get so close to the edge of the board
or else you'll jump without knowing what to do.
Every dive is a competition in itself.
That's when we need to narrow our focus
and do the best we can.
If you miss, let it go.
If you nail the dive, let it go.
If you get too excited or dwell on mistakes,
that could cost you a lot more dearly
than letting go of it all.
There were moments in my career
in which I allowed a missed dive
to stick with me throughout the competition,
and that's the worst thing that can happen.
In an Olympic final,
that sort of mistake is your doom.
It kills your drive.
Why compete in an event
where you don't have the slightest shot at winning?
"Why even do it?" You think.
You even lose the will to give it your best.
I honestly expected better results.
Right after the Olympics, I swear I thought to myself:
"That's it for me. I've had enough."
"I'm tired
and it will take tremendous improvement
to get me to come back."
The Olympics
are the consequence of a job well-done.
Coming into a competition,
your mind has to be very sharp and focused.
You need to know what to think, and when.
Coaches have to be in sync with athletes in that regard
because what the coach says during the competition
has a huge influence on the athletes.
The coach needs to assess how the athlete is doing,
if he's too nervous or too relaxed,
because any extremes may harm their performance.
Then, based on the coaches' feedback,
the athlete must make the right adjustments
to compete well.
Rather than narrowly focusing on the final standings,
remember that what you did to get there
is far more important.
If I had to live and suffer through all of it again
to get to where I am today,
I'd endure the suffering.
The crisis with my back problems
hit me more seriously than I'd ever felt before.
The most valuable thing in that story
is that I did what I could to heal my back.
I know I wasn't able to train the way I wished I could've,
but that's when we find out
just how mentally tough we are.
Some clouds have a silver lining.
That was a very tough moment,
but it made him stronger from a mental standpoint
and allowed him to put together
his finest Olympic performance to date.
He got the least amount of training and preparation
this time around,
but maybe what he needed most
was strengthening his mental fortitude
and maybe all the hardship he went through this year
helped to address what he truly needed.
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