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You know most of the time we say that Olympics are the highlighted sportsman platform where the cream of the cream, the best of anything could join, then read up because you are about to see something more inspiring than winning a gold medal.<\/span><\/div>\n

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The dude is\u00a0Eric Moussambani, wiki-ed him, it was a short and sweet description but what he did is something you so not expect from an Olympic scene. He\u00a0swam for Equatorial Guinea at the 2000 Olympics. He didn’t win. In fact, Eric\u00a0had never seen a big swimming pool before. At home, he trains in a 20-metre hotel pool.\u00a0The two other entrants in his heat – from Niger and Tajikistan<\/strong> – were both disqualified for false starts, so Eric had to swim by himself.\u00a0Also, Eric had never swum a 100-metre race before – something the crowd soon suspected. He swam with his head out of the water and he barely kicked his legs.<\/div>\n
In the first lap, he was really struggling.\u00a0In the second lap, he was nearly drowning.\u00a0But Eric gave it everything he had. Thirty metres from the finish, 17,000 spectators began to cheer him home,<\/em> and with each stroke, the roar got louder. Ten metres out, he was bobbing like a cork but the crowd was going bananas.\u00a0When Moussambani finally hit the wall, the cheering and stamping all but lifted the roof off the stadium.<\/div>\n
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His time? 1 minute 52 seconds<\/strong> was about a minute slower than all the other competitors. Who cared? Eric Moussambani had given his all. I bet even the record breaker or winner will feel jealous of the media attention and praise he got.<\/div>\n
The Story Lesson?<\/div>\n

When people know you have given your very best, they usually support you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s always not what you get in the end, but what you get during the process of learning!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Remember to Reward yourself at all times. For Achievement is far yet near because it’s all about how we treat ourselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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