From Gus - The Possibility Hunter

Imagine this:  It’s the last round of your Olympic diving event.  You’re winning.  You’re home crowd is ready for you to complete a clean sweep of your sport for your country – the first in over a century.  Even if your last dive is ugly someone has to do something exceptional – unprecedented even – to beat you.   It is, and they do.

This is exactly what happened to the unfortunate Zhou Luxin.  Australian Matt Micham nailed the highest scoring dive in Olympic history to steal Gold.  (Watch it here)

Ouch.

To make things worse, Zhou Luxin was also the speed-bump in the road of a Chinese clean sweep at the 2007 worlds.  Ouch and ouch.  Could you get back on the horse after such a tumble?

I’m not sure I could, so I very much enjoyed Failure is an Integral Part of Success from the Urban Monk.net.  It provides seven excellent ideas for dealing with failure.  (It also has lots of other interesting stuff so take your time looking around while you’re there)

Watch out for Zhou and his horse diving in London in 2012.   “… I’m still young. I can draw lessons from this competition to help my future life.”