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Drouin had been numbingly consistent in an event in which a miss can separate gold from no medal at all. After he won bronzes at the 2012 Olympics and 2013 World Championships, he won four successive major championships: the 2014 Commonwealth Games, the 2015 Pan American Games, the 2015 World Championships,and the 2016 Olympics.

Obviously, Drouin had a long résumé before he became an Olympic champion. Not that it made him a celebrity.

When he was surrounded by Canadian reporters in London, it was apparent they knew almost nothing about him. Life did not change after that. Nor did it after he won a historic three-way jump-off to win gold at the 2015 World Championships.

“The only time I think about it is when a reporter asks,” Drouin said. “I’ll basically go back to my regular routine as soon as I could after World Championships.”

Students at IU knew less than Canadian media. Drouin took a lifeguarding class in fall 2011 with Chad Canal, who remembered how hard it was to simulate saving someone as tall as six foot five who had “zero body fat.” Later that semester, Canal received a campus email and realized he had been partnered with an NCAA high jump champion.