"If you can do something well, you should also be able to do it fast," he says cheerfully, completely breezing by her evident discomfort with being photographed. Unfortunately, Olympians have a tendency to ignore a lot of basic etiquette.

"I'm usually pretty good at getting everything I need," he says, a lilt of smugness in his smile as he looks at her, fluttering his own glowing orange and gold wings. He cranes his neck to look at the woman's wings, admiring the green and gold feathers. "Your wings are beautiful. There, one of the items already."