Ariarne Titmus likes to think she is ordinary. “I just look at myself and I’m so normal,” she said on Saturday night, mere moments after winning the marquee race of the Paris Olympics swim meet. Or moments after that: “I hope no-one looks at me any differently – I’m just the same old goofy Tassie girl, out here living out her dream.”
Only Titmus is not ordinary. Far from it. She is extraordinary.