Olympic moment of the day: Facing giants, diver Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix shows what sports – and life – are all about | News World

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Sports are everything. A ball entering a net, a perfect floor routine or a car crossing a line first cause the greatest of emotions in every spectator or participant: joy and ecstasy, sadness and anger, amazement and awe.

The Olympic Games are perhaps the biggest stage of them all for this theatre of feeling. We marvel at the feats of humanity, witness the passion of our athletes – for what is sport if not a conduit to feel community and identity. Sometimes, though, we get a reminder of what success really is – far away from the gold, silver and bronze.

One of those came Tuesday at Paris’ Aquatics Centre, built for these Games.

Great Britain’s Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix had entered Tuesday’s individual 10m platform…