Breaking the Surface (1995)
“If ever I needed a refuge from what was going on in my life, it was during the 1988 Olympics. In the past, it had always been a struggle to keep the turmoil of my daily life and the ups and downs of my own emotions from getting in the way of what I did on the diving board. In Seoul, it was almost impossible.
This time, there was just too much going on to push it all aside. Starting with that first night in Seoul, there was no way I could clear my head and fall asleep. I’d toss and turn for hour...s, and once I finally drifted off to sleep, my alarm would go off for my next dose of AZT.
Ron was under a lot of pressure beyond diving. Mary Jane still calls the weeks leading up to the Olympics the “five weeks from hell.” On August first Bruce Kimball, my friend and rival on the ten-meter platform, had a terrible car accident in which the car he was driving killed two people. He’d apparently been drinking. All of us were upset by the accident and the controversy that followed. A lot of people didn’t think Bruce should be allowed to compete in the Olympics because of what happened, but he wound up not making it through the Olympic trials anyway.MoreLess
This time, there was just too much going on to push it all aside. Starting with that first night in Seoul, there was no way I could clear my head and fall asleep. I’d toss and turn for hour...s, and once I finally drifted off to sleep, my alarm would go off for my next dose of AZT.
Ron was under a lot of pressure beyond diving. Mary Jane still calls the weeks leading up to the Olympics the “five weeks from hell.” On August first Bruce Kimball, my friend and rival on the ten-meter platform, had a terrible car accident in which the car he was driving killed two people. He’d apparently been drinking. All of us were upset by the accident and the controversy that followed. A lot of people didn’t think Bruce should be allowed to compete in the Olympics because of what happened, but he wound up not making it through the Olympic trials anyway.MoreLess
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