I don’t understand people who don’t celebrate when they win. The fist-pump or shouting for joy should be a part of every win.

If the race is important and you win, you must celebrate an unpremeditated action. I love seeing this ecstatic moment. It seems to be displayed in ways that are completely spontaneous.

I don’t mean the choreographed group ‘line dance’ professional footballers devise but the true in-the-moment reaction. I think the most iconic in the sporting world, outside swimming, is Bobby Orr’s Stanley Cup winning goal.

My favourite in the swimming world is the Swim Canada magazine cover of Canadian great Graham Smith, when he broke the world record in 200m IM at the Commonwealth Games in Edmonton.

This looks like pure joy to me. The result of dedication and focused hard work.

A coach is lucky. This experience can happen to them over and over with a well devised programme. Winning groups tend to encourage more winners, so with a successful training system you can experience, vicariously of course, the wins through your swimmers. You won’t get on the podium but you know your input was critical. Your joy is their joy. It is good. You might even do a poolside happy dance.

Sharing along with the coach in the celebration is a community and country, they are part of an extended family. Smaller communities like swim clubs and villages are even more intimately involved with the celebrations. Often a banner will appear at the home pool, forever immortalising the event, shared by all future members.

Families share to the greatest extent, knowing the long road they travelled together. It is not easy to get through hard training without the help of people around you, especially immediate partners like best friends and spouses. The road was paved with tears and early mornings, so is celebrated wildly.

When my wife attained the win in this picture she had won the 50m freestyle by a body length! She had set what became the fastest three times in the world that year in the; heat, semi and finals sequence of races at this Commonwealth Games. I was doing an embarrassing version of a happy dance!

There was also a great deal of celebration by the large Scottish representation in the stands in the beautiful new facility in Manchester. The Scottish team on poolside joined in the cheers as it was not very often a swimmer from Scotland beat the powerhouse squads from Australia, Canada and England. This was the first gold for a woman from Scotland since 1956 and only a handful won by the entire Scottish Games team as a whole that year.