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Early in the Olympics, high up in the temporary bleachers flanking the swimming pool, I found myself sitting beside John Naber, the winner of four gold medals in Montreal in 1976. Across the way on the superstructure of the diving platforms, the women divers were collected on the various levels...
"See those little blue towels they're drying themselves off with?" Naber asked. "They're made of chamois. Very absorbent stuff. Divers go through hundreds of towels because they have to be dry for the dry-to-dry contact with hands clasping legs, for example, in certain kinds...
He shrugged. We stared at the divers lounging against the platform rails.
"Very gregarious bunch, divers," Naber was saying. "Far more social breed than swimmers."
"Swimmers don't have anyone to commune with except themselves," Naber said. "Nothing but the rush of water by their ears, hour after hour in practice. Many of them sing to themselves to pass the time. I used to hum Smoke on the Water. Divers, on the other hand...