When swimmer Amanda Lim arrived at her room in the Games Village she couldn't help herself. Some people sleep, she cleaned. Wiped her room. Dusted her cupboards. Everything with her has to be exact. Please understand, she deals in specks of dust. And, almost predictably, fractions of seconds.
Tomorrow is Lim's 50m freestyle, a taut, terse 25-second sprint. Tomorrow is what she waits anxiously for. Tomorrow she has to be perfect and for that she'll do anything.
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