moussambani in A Sentence

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    Eric" the Eel" Moussambani.

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    Moussambani's current training routine for the 2016 Olympics is to wake up at 5am and run for 3 km.

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    Previous to this, Moussambani didn't know much about swimming, but contrary to what is often reported, he did know how to swim.

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    Two people showed up, one woman, Paula Barila Bolopa(who was a grocery store cashier at the time), and one man, Eric Moussambani.

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    Since 2012 Moussambani has been the coach of the Equatorial Guinea swim team, when he's not working his day job as an IT engineer.

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    What makes Moussambani's story even more compelling is that he would go on to win his heat in the 100m freestyle, albeit in a pretty unorthodox way.

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    Moussambani recently started training again along with coaching and he posted his best swim time in 2012 at the age of 34, having it down to 55 seconds in the 100m freestyle, just under 8 seconds off the current Olympic record.

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    Moussambani is from Equatorial Guinea in Africa and only managed to get into the Olympics at all because of a wildcard drawing system put in place by the International Olympic Committee, designed to try to encourage developing countries to participate in various Olympic events.

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    Both of these two ended up getting disqualified for false starts, leaving just Moussambani, who at the time thought he had been disqualified, before it was explained to him that his competitors were the ones out and that he would be swimming the heat alone in front of 17,000 spectators.

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