Dickson Chow Ho-wing has used disappointments to keep on improving as a diver. Despite the setbacks, including niggling injuries caused by overtraining, he has managed to remain positive.
He has competed in the sport - diving off a 3m-high springboard - since 2002, after giving up swimming because he found races too boring.
'My swimming coach asked members of the club to join an introductory diving course and I enjoyed it,' says the Form Five student at Jockey Club Ti-I College. 'I met my coach, Gordon Ng, and joined his club, Diving, Concepts.'
Except for the period of pool closures during the Sars outbreak, Dickson has trained at least five days a week ever since.
Diving training can be painstaking because of the need for precise movements and gestures - from the jump until the moment of entering the water.
'I love diving,' Dickson says. 'Even when I have sad moments during the day, once I step onto the diving board and focus on my dive, all my negative feelings disappear.'