"The rise to Olympic glory of James "Jimmy" Hopkins, age 21"


Ok this is a quick one shot to get me back in the mood for fan-fic writing after almost 3 years of in activity… (Having joined facebook, I produced 1 chapter and then went into semi retirement), as far as I can tell, the youngest ever gold medal winner at an Olympics was a 13 year old American girl called Marjorie Gestring, she won the 3 meter springboard gold medal at the Berlin Olympics in 1936

Jimmy is 15 in the game, released in 2006, so 6 years later he would be 21, hence the age in the title….


Jimmy rounded the last bend, took the rhythm section with ease, and looking over his shoulder, knew he had it in the bag…. But this wasn't bullworth academy anymore…

This was the Olympic final… a crash here and he would have to settle for silver…

Concentrating on the line now he straightened his legs and went for it, the finishing flag waved and he had done it! Olympic gold was his… he braked heavily and jumped exuberantly over the handlebars… from somewhere his team coach had appeared, screaming something that jimmy was only thinly aware of in his moment of triumph…

Gold was his, after signing on for the Olympic trials on a whim… he had risen to the top of the list of alumni at the academy… nothing but arms dealers, serial killers and corporate lawyers he was once told…

Somebody thrust a bottle in his hand and he took a drink of water, swilled it round his mouth and spat it out to clear it of dust particles, from somewhere an American flag was draped over his shoulders and his coaching team hoisted him onto their shoulders to the medal rostrum…

As he stood there with the medal round his neck, the anthem playing… suddenly he found himself welling up inside… thanks petey he thought… if not for you mentioning that bike race on the beach, you would never have opened this door for me… olympic champion, number one 1, I beat them all in front of everybody, i'm not just king of the school, I'm king of the world and olympic champion!


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