Ahaha, thank you so much for commenting and voting - that's really awesome of you!

I agree that my pacing was a little off in some places, and if I had more time, I would have liked to have fine-comb it a bit more to tighten that up... but still, that's the challenge of writing for an event like the Olympics! :D I'm still relieved the ambiguous ending has been accepted, though I definitely would have liked to have written a coda or endpiece for it. Still, I really enjoyed trying something different with my writing, that's for sure!

Thank you so much for reading and for voting - it's so nice of you!