Eric 'The Eel' Moussambani struggles his way through his 100m heat in Sydney.
A cult hero was born at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, as Eric 'The Eel' Moussambani entered the record books for all the wrong reasons.
Moussambani arrived in Australia representing Equatorial Guinea in the men's 100m freestyle swimming event with just £50 to his name.
Qualifying for the games via a wild-card scheme and even given the honour of carrying his nation's flag during the opening ceremony, a rags-to-riches fairytale could well have been on the cards.
Problem was, Moussambani only taught himself to swim AFTER securing the wild-card berth, and had never even seen an Olympic-standard 50m
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