"It isn't over until it's over, fucker." Chris bumped my shoulder as he passed me, almost dumping me in the pool at the Natatorium. I'd say his expression was a mix of disappointment, determination, and more than a bit of a sneer. I said nothing, and I didn't respond to the aggression. I'm not sure I would have felt or reacted differently if I'd been just below the cut-off line and he'd been just above it.
It's not that I didn't think I deserved my place on the U.S. Olympic men's diving team. I thought I was the best diver in the United States, and I'd had stats from Stanford that made that at least arguable. But the trials here in Indianapolis hadn't been the greatest for me, whereas Chris Fair had outdone himself. By my accounting, we'd come out equal in the trials stats—both on the cusp of being selected or not. The judges must have weighed in past performances, as I think was right, and they picked me over Chris.
I didn't take Chris' warning lightly that it wasn't over yet, though. He'd been named an alternate when we'd met one last time in Indianapolis for the Olympic squad to start jelling, to get our training schedule, and to do a few dives for the coaches to look at and critique. And he'd been here, breathing down my neck as the guy who would be going to Rio if something happened and I didn't make it. That brought a whole new meaning to him nudging me toward the side of the pool when he'd brushed by me.
He could have pinned his hopes on any of the other team members not making it, but he seemed extra resentful that I was on the team and he wasn't. If there was going to be a "convenient" accident that worked in Chris' favor, I was pretty sure it was going to be mine.
Chris had been a collegiate competitor of mine for three years, and we both felt the competition, and neither one of us had any love to give the other. I thought Chris was devious, and I—and others—were careful around him in competition. None of the guys put it past him to give us that nudge in passing that would make us slip, fall, and break something. I was sure, though, that, if it was going to happen, it would be me.
He certainly was still competing today. While we were going through some dives, Coach Wood had left the pool. I wanted to ask him something and sought him out in the office and locker room area of the Natatorium. I found him, but I pulled back from entering the office where I saw him on his back on a desk and Chris straddling his pelvis and riding his cock. I was shocked, but not surprised, by either of them. I knew Chris would do whatever he had to to get what he wanted, and Warren Wood had given me broad hints before that he wanted to fuck me. We too had a long history of being at the same meets, and he had heard that I was gay—which wasn't all that uncommon among male divers—and that, if I liked a guy, I'd let him fuck me.
Wood of course couldn't opening declare as gay, but swimmers knew it well enough to try to use it to get on his team. He put together championship teams. That's why he was the U.S. Olympic swim team coach for Rio.
I didn't particularly like Coach Wood. He had a good body for his age, but he was an arrogant son of a bitch, and those guys who did let him fuck them said he was rough and only cared about his own pleasure. And I'd never thought of going with Chris. He obviously was a bottom, like me, and he was a little shit.
I'd returned to the pool, and it was then, after a while, that Chris had come out and declared that he was still fighting for position.
I looked for Chris as the team was gathering at the Miami airport three weeks later to fly down to Rio for the opening of the summer Olympics, but he wasn't there. There was no reason why he should have been there; alternates didn't travel with the team as long as the team was intact. But I wouldn't have put it past Chris to somehow have worked his way into the trip—just to be there and handy when something "accidentally" happened to a team member. I breathed a sigh of relief when we got on board the charter plane taking us and the men's gymnastics team to Brazil and settled in to meeting some of the really hot guys on the gymnastics team. I quickly zeroed in on Pedro Gonzalez, a dark-complexioned hunk with great musculature.
But I shouldn't have breathed that sigh of relief and I should have been on my guard rather than making eyes with Pedro after the third time he'd passed by my seat on the way back to his and had brushed my arm with his hand. I was still sharing meaningful mating looks with Pedro when Coach Wood came back, sat down in the seat facing mine, and reached over to put both of his hands on the seat arms on either side of me, essentially trapping me in place.
"I've been looking for you, Jason," he said. "I think you and I have some business."
"Business, I asked?" Even then I assumed he was talking about some sort of discussion of my diving.
"You know it was a close call on putting you on the team."
"Yeah, Coach, I didn't have the greatest trials, but I think my competition history stands up well."
"There isn't much distance between you and the alternates. If something were to happen to you—or if you became a discipline problem—I wouldn't have any trouble at all changing you out for an alternate."
"What you are saying, Coach?" I asked.
"I think you know what I'm saying, Jason. You need to continually earn your place on this team. You need to stop playing at teasing and avoiding me and decide you need to be a team player—a player on my team. I'm going forward to the head now. I think you will decide you need to go to the head in a minute or two yourself."
I didn't have any trouble understanding what he meant. I sat on the toilet in the closet-like airplane head, while Coach Wood hovered over me, his hands palmed against the bulkhead behind me, and I gave him a blow job to the point that he was engorged. Hard, he pulled me off the toilet and turned me to the bulkhead, with my hands replacing his on the bulkhead. His hands were busy fingering my ass and squeezing and separating my butt cheeks.
"Nice," he muttered. "I've been looking forward to this."
I heard the snap of a rubber being pulled on and adjusted and then he forced his way inside me with his hard cock, giving me little time to adjust to him and laughing at my objecting groans. Saddled on my ass, his hands went back to the bulkhead in front of me, covering and trapping mine, and he cruelly fucked my ass to an ejaculation. I was no virgin, but neither was I accustomed to being taken this roughly, impersonally, and without a great deal of preparation.
Before we left the head, he said, "Athletes double up in the Olympic village, but coaches get singles. Your roommate isn't going to be seeing much of you at night, Jason. If you want to hold your place on the team, you'll be spending most of the nights in my bed."
When I didn't answer, he banged my head on the bulkhead and said, "I didn't hear you say yes." He banged my head again. "Oh, did that hurt? Maybe I need to give Chris Fair a call?"
"No, Coach, you don't need to call Chris."
"So, you're going to be my fuck toy in Rio? Say it. Thank me for the opportunity."
"Yes, thank you, Coach."
It wasn't that I was traumatized or anything. I fucked around, liked to be fucked, and was fucked a lot. It was mostly that I wasn't attracted to Coach and his reputation was just what I had found—rough and banging his lay's head against the wall a lot. I planned on getting what cock I could in Rio. That was as much a draw for going to the Olympics for me as was medaling. I just hadn't planned on it being Coach's cock I was getting.
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