Respond in a paragraph and make sure your answer is written complete sentences

" the swimming contest" ends with the word losers. what do you think the author meansfor to understand by this? what was "lost"?

The narrator and the man who had died didn't get the chance to have their swimming rematch. The narrator and his military comrades were losers because they never received the needed information from the man that died. The man whom died had a family so the family lost someone who was very dear to them.