This story was inspired by a true event that happened to me on my way to work one day. The rest, after the first three paragraphs, unfortunately, is pure fiction. In the true version, she just smiled at me and walked away as I went into work; I never saw her again.
There's an undocumented tradition at the world's biggest sporting event that none but the athlete's in the village know about. This is the story of one athlete at her first games and what happens after the medals.