There have been any number of athletes overawed by the Beijing Olympics … and some have simply revelled in it.
Into the second category falls one girl we’ve already noticed, Stephanie Rice, and another young man who has received a fraction of her publicity – Eddie Ockenden.
Ockenden is a 21-year-old, Hobart-raised hockey player not used to smog, pollution or the big crowds but he has experienced all three in Beijing – and carried himself like a man at his fourth Olympics, never mind his first.