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[00:-1.00]I climbed the ladder, heard my dive announced,
[00:-2.00]and commenced the moves that would thrust me into the air.
[00:-3.00]Pushing off the diving board with my legs,
[00:-4.00]I lifted my arms and shoulders back,
[00:-5.00]and knew immediately I would be close to the board and might hit my hands.
[00:-6.00]I tried to correct myself as I turned,
[00:-7.00]spreading my hands wide apart.
[00:-8.00]Then I heard a strange sound and my body lost control.
[00:-9.00]Moments later I realized I had hit my head on the board.
[00:10.00]Initially, I felt embarrassment.
[00:11.00]I wanted to hide, to get out of the pool without anyone seeing me.
[00:12.00]Next I felt intense fear. Had I cut my head?
[00:13.00]Was I bleeding? Was there blood in the pool?
[00:14.00]Swimming to the side, I noticed many shocked faces.
[00:15.00]People were worried about my head;
[00:16.00]I was worried about something far more threatening.
[00:17.00]An official examined my head. In haste,
[00:18.00]I pushed him away, and everyone else who approached me.
[00:19.00]"Don't touch me!" I felt like screaming. "Get away from me!"
[00:20.00]These were the trials for the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, Korea.
[00:21.00]Until this dive, I had been ahead.
[00:22.00]But now, something else was more significant than winning.
[00:23.00]I might have endangered other divers' lives
[00:24.00]if I had spilled blood in the pool.
[00:25.00]For what I knew — that few others knew—was that I was HIV-positive
[00:26.00]According to my mother,
[00:27.00]my natural parents were Samoan and only teenagers when I was born,
[00:28.00]so they gave me up for adoption.
[00:29.00]When I was only eighteen months old, I started gym classes.
[00:30.00]At ten,I explored doing gym exercises off the diving board at the pool
[00:31.00]Because of my dark skin, kids at school called me names;
[00:32.00]I often got mugged coming home from school.
[00:33.00]My diving made me feel good about myself
[00:34.00]when my peers made me feel stupid.
[00:35.00]In the seventh grade, I started taking drugs.
[00:36.00]At sixteen, I knew I had a shot at the 1976 Olympics.
[00:37.00]At the trials, one month prior to the finals,
[00:38.00]I took first place on the ten-meter platform and on the springboard!
[00:39.00]This was surprising because I had trained mostly on the platform.
[00:40.00]In the finals, I won the silver medal for the platform.
[00:41.00]Unfortunately, I wasn't happy.
[00:42.00]Instead, I felt I failed because I hadn't won the gold.
[00:43.00]After that, I started training with Ron O'Brien,
[00:44.00]a well-known Olympic diving coach.
[00:45.00]Ron understood me and assisted my working more intensely.
[00:46.00]I soon became the international leader in diving.
[00:47.00]In the 1984 Olympics, I won two gold medals,
[00:48.00]one for platform, one for spring-board.
[00:49.00]This was an enjoyable triumph.
[00:50.00]No one knew then I was gay, except Ron and a few friends.
[00:51.00]I feared being hated if people found out.
[00:52.00]Four years later, while preparing for the 1988 Olympics in Seoul,
[00:53.00]I learned my partner had AIDS.
[00:54.00]I had to accept I might be HIV-positive or have AIDS, too.
[00:55.00]When my HIV test results returned positive,
[00:56.00]I was shocked and confused.
[00:57.00]Was I dying? Was my shot at the '88 Olympics vaporized?
[00:58.00]What should I do? During this very difficult time,
[00:59.00]I couldn't tell anyone
[-1:00.00]for fear I wouldn't be able to compete in the Olympics
[-1:-1.00]if people learned I was HIV-positive.
[-1:-2.00]Everyone was alarmed when I hit my head on the board at the trials in Seoul.
[-1:-3.00]Regardless, I made it into the finals.
[-1:-4.00]When we practiced the next morning,
[-1:-5.00]my coach made me start with the dive I'd hit my head on.
[-1:-6.00]At first, I was scared, but Ron made me do it six times.
[-1:-7.00]With each repetition, I felt more confident.
[-1:-8.00]During my last dive in the finals,
[-1:-9.00]I enjoyed for the last time the quietness underwater