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• Comment Link Venerdì, 30 Settembre 2022 21:15 posted by https://softlog.online

  Two decades on and the swimmer who almost drowned attempting 100 metres is talking about going a hundred times further.
  
  
  
  'Open water swimming is an event I would like to compete
  in,' is the surprising admission from the man known the world over as Eric the Eel.
  
  'I would like to do the 10km. I know I can do it.'
  
  Those who remember Sydney 2000 may struggle to believe him.
  Those familiar with the remarkable story of Eric
  Moussambani would know never to doubt him.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Eric Moussambani has given an exclusive interview to Sportsmail telling his remarkable story
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Now aged 43, he is speaking to Sportsmail on Zoom from his home in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea,
  and looks every bit as fit as the ripped 22-year-old who stood in those blue trunks
  on the blocks.
  
  'I always have to be in good shape,' he smiles.
  
  
  
  
  And there is no doubt he would also be able to swim much faster now than he did back
  then. 
  
  Indeed, since he clocked the slowest men's 100m freestyle ever recorded
  in the Olympics with a time of 1min 52.72sec, Moussambani claims to have knocked more than a minute off his personal best. So has
  he ever been tempted to try out for the Games again? 
  
  'To compete in an Olympic Games, I would have to spend a year of hard training and I don't have
  time for that.
  
  I am a family man now,' says the father of four, notably not ruling it out on age or ability, only on his schedule.
  
  
  
  Still, that is not to say we will not see Moussambani back on the
  Olympic stage one day. In fact, it is his dream to return as a coach of his country, a job he
  does now alongside his work at an oil company.
  
  'I am trying to improve swimming in my country,' he says.
  
  
  'A week after Sydney, the president received me and said he was
  going to build pools for the future swimmers,
  so we now have swimming pools for people to swim wherever they want.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Moussambani (pictured) made waves with his performance
  at the Olympics in Sydney in 2000
  
  
  'We have good swimmers, they are improving, but my dream is
  to have competitive swimmers in the Olympics.
  
  Maybe even the next one in Paris.
  
  'I will go there as coach because when I am with them they have courage.
  I am like a symbol, I am an icon here in my country. When it comes to swimming, my name is always there.'
  
  Moussambani's name is forever in Olympic folklore.
  But back in early 2000, the cult hero did not know even what the Games were, nor had he ever set foot in a pool.
  
  
  The first time was at the Hotel Ureca in Malabo
  on May 6, 2000, when, having heard on the radio that the new national
  swimming federation were recruiting, he went along to a trial and was the only man to show
  up.
  
  'I went in the pool, started moving my legs, my arms, and they said,
  "OK, that's enough, get out",' he recalls.
  
  'They told me, "Start swimming because you will be going to the Olympics in three months".
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